Quotations: Chandrakirti, Introduction to the Middle Way, Limited beings cannot express Buddhas qualities

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ནམ་མཁའ་མེད་པས་འདབ་ཆགས་ལྡོག་པར་མི་འགྱུར་གྱི། །

འདི་ནི་རང་མཐུ་ཟད་པས་ལྡོག་པར་འགྱུར་དེ་བཞིན། །
སློབ་མ་དང་བཅས་སངས་རྒྱས་སྲས་རྣམས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི། །

ཡོན་ཏན་མཁའ་ལྟར་མཐའ་ཡས་མ་བརྗོད་ལྡོག་པར་འགྱུར། །

It is not because they run out of sky that birds turn back;
It is because they lack the strength to keep on flying.
Just so, the shravaka disciples and the bodhisattvas,
Can not express Buddha’s qualities, as infinite as space.

Candrakīrti, Introduction to the Middle Way, XI, 41

It is not because they run out of sky that birds turn back; It is because they lack the strength to keep on flying. Just so, the śrāvaka disciples and the bodhisattvas Cannot express Buddha’s qualities, as infinite as space.

Chapter 11, verse 41