This completes the Commentary to Entering the Middle Way, elucidating the profound and the vast, composed by the master Candrakīrti, an upholder of the supreme vehicle who possessed invincible wisdom and compassion, and who by milking the painted cow defeated clinging to true existence.
The quotes should be rendered as found in the sutras.
And any future translators should
Be conscientious and honest in making
The translation comply with the root text’s commentary.
This was translated from a Kashmiri manuscript by the Indian preceptor Tilaka Kalaśa and the translator Patsab Nyimadrak in the Ratnagupta temple in the Kashmiri city Anupama (Shrinagar) during the reign of the Kashmiri king Śrī Āryadeva. It was subsequently edited and finalised based on a manuscript from the eastern country of Aparānta by the Indian preceptor Kanakavarman and the same Tibetan translator in the Ramoche temple in Lhasa (Rasa). The length of the text is 11 2/3 bundles.
English translation by Fredrik Liland, 2019.