幻人喻见龙树《回诤论》（Vigrahavyāvartanī）第 23 颂及自注。英译与研究见 Jan Westerhoff. The Dispeller of Disputes: Nāgārjuna's Vigrahavyāvartanī. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010。颂作“Suppose one artificial being were to hinder another artificial being, or an illusory man would hinder one brought about by his own illusionistic power. This negation would be just like that.”；自注末句作“Therefore in just the same way the negation of the substance of all things is established by my empty speech.”，正文所取即此义。两处须记明。其一，龙树用的是两个词：“artificial man”为 nirmitaka，“illusory man”为 māyā-puruṣa；译注者特别提示“It is important, though, to be aware that Nāgārjuna mentions two different examples here… The second is somewhat more intricate, as it involves two layers of illusion”，正文已依此分说两例。其二，本书原作“幻化出的武士”，无据已删：该译本通检 warrior、soldier、fighter、combat 皆零命中；译注者且明言所指不定，或为幻师所化，或为“an automaton created by non-magical feats of engineering”，甚至“characters in a film”，并谓“For the philosophical point this passage is trying to make, it is not important whether we conceive of the illusory persons as phantoms… or even as characters in a film”，故正文改作不指形貌的“幻化之人”。
