Verse I.11
Verse I.11 Variations
गुणैस्त्रिभिस्त्रिभिश्चैते वेदितव्ये यथाक्रमम्
guṇaistribhistribhiścaite veditavye yathākramam
ལམ་གྱི་བདེན་པ་དག་གིས་བསྡུས། །
གོ་རིམས་ཇི་བཞིན་དེ་དག་ཀྱང་། །
ཡོན་ཏན་གསུམ་གསུམ་གྱིས་རིག་བྱ། །
The two realities of cessation and the path.
In due order, these two are to be understood
Through three qualities each.
- La libération de l’attachement se ramène
- Aux vérités de la cessation et de la voie.
- On saura que dans cet ordre
- Chacune possède trois qualités.
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Other English translations[edit]
Obermiller (1931) [4]
- The freedom from passions consists
- In the Truths of Extinction and of the Path;
- These 2; taken respectively,
- Are each known by 3 distinctive features.一
Takasaki (1966) [5]
- Deliverance is summarized
- In both truths, Extinction and Path,
- Which are each to be known
- By three qualities according to order.
Fuchs (2000) [6]
- Freedom from attachment [as fruit and means]
- consists of the truths of cessation and path.
- Accordingly these should also be known
- by means of three qualities each.
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Academic notes[edit]
- Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
- Brunnhölzl, Karl. When the Clouds Part: The Uttaratantra and its Meditative Tradition as a Bridge between Sūtra and Tantra. Boston: Snow Lion Publications, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, 2014.
- J vipakṣa/pratipakṣa, which literally means "opponent" or "adversary,"but for stylistic reasons, I follow the Tibetan gnyen po.
- Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
- Takasaki, Jikido. A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Serie Orientale Roma 33. Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (ISMEO), 1966.
- Fuchs, Rosemarie, trans. Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra. Commentary by Jamgon Kongtrul and explanations by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso. Ithaca, N. Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2000.