Quotations: Chandrakirti, Introduction to the Middle Way, Relative truth

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གཏི་མུག་རང་བཞིན་སྒྲིབ་ཕྱིར་ཀུན་རྫོབ་སྟེ། །

དེས་གང་བཅོས་མ་བདེན་པར་སྣང་དེ་ནི། །
ཀུན་རྫོབ་བདེན་ཞེས་ཐུབ་པ་དེས་གསུངས་ཏེ། །

བཅོས་མར་གྱུར་པའི་དངོས་ནི་ཀུན་རྫོབ་ཏུའོ། །

The nature of things is obscured by delusion, so it is “all-concealed.”
But this fabrication appears to us as true,
And so the Buddha spoke of it as superficial truth.
Entities that are thus contrived are “relatively” true.

Candrakīrti, Introduction to the Middle Way, VI, 28