I am looking for a copy of the Tibetan Upāyikā and within that the parallel for MN140 (Up 1.041). I tried looking for it in Buddha Nexus, but honestly, I seem to be pretty bad at using that website. I attempted to type the Tibetan name of the text, “chos mngon pa’i mdzod kyi 'grel bshad nye bar mkho ba zhes bya ba” and it just immediately gave me a huge list of parallels with that phrase and I couldn’t see where to simply download that text. Any ideas where I can get this pdf?
Yeah most of the Tibetan root text of the Upayika is not on there. And some of the scattered translations out there are also not added yet.
I have been wanting for several years to see the MA and Up parallels translated for this text. Let’s just say it is my favorite Sutta. At this point, I am like, maybe I can work on translating the Tibetan one. And someday when I have a little money I will sponsor the Chinese translation. Because I suspect volume 3 of the BDK MA translation is probably not going to happen in the near future! And that is where the MA parallel is located.
By the way, I looked at the Visudhimagga and Abhidharmakosa and was surprised that both of them dropped the 5th and 6th element in their discussion of the elements (where they cited the Sutta/Sutra)… I almost find that a little surprising since both of their source material covers all 6 elements!
does nod to the six elements list at XV.25… but yeah, it primarily follows the Abhidhamma
I attached the scanned pdf text for you. The original pdf is at this location:
W23703-v147_img430-475.pdf (1.2 MB)
Here is the OCR version:
TD04096(eTB).pdf (168.8 KB)
and the Romanized version where you can see the phrase “CHOS MNGON PA MDZOD KYI 'GREL BSHAD MTSAN NYID KYI RJES SU 'BRANG BA ZHES BYA BA”:
TD4096E.pdf (134.7 KB)
There is another one (seems not exactly the same but related):
https://archive.org/details/bdrc-W1PD95844/bdrc-W1PD95844-100/page/n1/mode/2up