^303:* Here we strongly disagree; Dharma-dhatu may not so be translated; defilements and the buddha-nature are not at all identical in the context of Dharma-dhatu, much less innately so. If were, and hence if blindness and enlightenment were innately identical, there would be no point in either the translator's translation or comments, nor indeed in the existence of this or other book. The expression of the matter by the translator tends to confusion. We would rather see it put that the essential Buddha-nature is the self-nature of all things, and constitutes the ultimate reality stripped of all manifestation, and even the ultimate substance of those manifestations we call evil or defilements. It is important to point out, however, that in the samsara, what is evil uses the innate nature parasitically, while what is good tends to increase the explicit manifestation (nirmanakaya forms) of the Buddha-nature.--Ed.

ERRATA

(+ = from top of page; - = from bottom)

[Except where noted, all of these have been corrected in the etext in the usual way, and incorporated into the errata file for this etext. This is not an exhaustive list of errata, simply ones the author designated.--JBH]

Page

Line

Instead of

Read

+12, 13

Shri

S'ri

17

+14, 15

Sambhogyakaya,
Dharmakaya, and
Nirmanakaya

Sambhogakaya,
Dharmakaya, and
Nirmanakaya

49

+12, 13

S'hri

S'ri

93

+16

omit entire line

106

+9

insert: (see note, Folios 26-41, p. 115)

121

-8

omit "declares that"

167

-11

Whon

When

178

-10, 19

*

**

179

-15

holy,

holy

182

+1

sesence

essence

194

-3, +15,

Ti Le

Thig-le

195

+1, 3

Ti Le-, hig-le

Thig-le

234

-3

Madhyamkia principle on

Madhyamika principle in

247

-12

skhandas

skandhas

257

-12

prajna

prajna

257

-3

Agamas

Agamas

266

-6

A pags-pa

Apags-pa

274

note 42

Tsong Kapa

Tsong Khapa

278

-7

Tsogn

Tsong

288

+7, +12,
+14

Mahamudra

(Reader, make this correction throughout chapter.)
[Not implemented.--JBH]

289

+4

ha-

has

289

-14

ilt contains

it contains

289

-9

delete ";also"

294

+11

Sansara

Samsara

(Reader, make this correction throughout.)

296

-3

nothig

nothing

303

+17

he

one

303

+20

word-beyond

world-beyond

303

-12