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DTG194 0004.The Commentary on the Sutra of Letters, by Dharma Protector.《The Commentary on the Sutra of Letters, by Dharma Protector.》 The Commentary on the Sutra of Letters, by Dharma Protector..g2.0f

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It is because it belongs to the ྡེ་ཚན་. The inherent place of the letter ན་ is the teeth, because it belongs to the ཏའི་ སྡེ་ཚན་. The inherent place of the letter མ་ is the lips, because it belongs to the པའི་ སྡེ་ཚན་. It is said like that, each of the letters ང་, etc., each of the throat, etc., what indicates the proximity of the place is the place of the nasals. From the palate are the letters ཨི་, ཙུ་, ཡ་, and ཤ་. ཨི་ is the letter ཨི་. ཙུ་ is the ཙའི་ སྡེའོ. ཡ་ is the letter ཡ་. ཤ་ is the letter ཤ་. Those are the letters ཨི་ ཙུ་ ཡ་ ཤ་. The place of those is the palate. Here, the necessity of the letter ཨེ་ that is spoken about should be considered. From the lips are the letters ཨུ་, བུ་, and ཝ་, which are labials. ཨུ་ is the letter ཨུ་. པུ་ is the པའི་ སྡེའོ. ཉྤ་ labial is the letter ཉྤ་ and the letter that is circled on top of the letter ཉྤ་ like the crown of an elephant; that ཉྤ་ labial is to be observed as originating from the lips. The letter ཨུ་ is also clearly stated here as the word of the first fruit. From the teeth and lips comes the letter ཝ་. Teeth and lips are indeed teeth and lips; it should be understood as the place of the letter ཝ་. Thus, after stating the details of the place in the order of how close it is spoken, the action of the agent is also spoken about. The root of the tongue is what is called "whose action," and so on. The letter that is written and placed on top of the letters ཐྐ་ and ཐྑ་ like a vajra is the root of the tongue. That action is the root of the tongue. Its action is: Through this action, here also is the place of the agent. Those themselves should be understood. In the middle of the tongue and so on. Those that arise from the place of the palate, and the action of the middle of the tongue that was previously spoken about should be understood. From the tip of the tongue and the crown of the head and so on. The action that arises from the place of the crown of the head and that universally arises from the tip of the tongue should be understood. The tip of the tongue and the teeth and so on. The action that arises from the place of the tip of the tongue and the teeth should be observed. The remaining ones are the actions of their own places. The remaining ones that act by their own place, because they exist as the action of their own place, therefore, through this, those that arise from the place that is not clearly distinguished, and should be understood from the basis of one's own place. The action itself is also clearly stated, and it is said that striving very closely should be shown. There are two kinds of very effort.