Verse I.126
Verse I.126 Variations
स्याच्छान्त तदवेत्य रत्नकुशलः संचोदयेन्मृत्तिकाम्
तद्वच्छान्तमवेत्य शुद्धकनकप्रख्यं मनः सर्ववि-
द्धर्माख्याननयप्रहारविधितः संचोदयत्यावृतिम्
syācchānta tadavetya ratnakuśalaḥ saṃcodayenmṛttikām
tadvacchāntamavetya śuddhakanakaprakhyaṃ manaḥ sarvavi-
ddharmākhyānanayaprahāravidhitaḥ saṃcodayatyāvṛtim
ཞི་དེ་རང་བཞིན་མཁས་པས་རིག་ནས་ས་དག་སེལ་བར་བྱེད་པར་ལྟར། །
དེ་བཞིན་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་དག་པའི་གསེར་འདྲ་ཞི་བའི་ཡིད་ནི་མཁྱེན་གྱུར་ནས། །
ཆོས་འཆད་ཚུལ་གྱིས་བརྡེག་སྤྱད་སྒྲུབ་པས་སྒྲིབ་པ་དག་ནི་སེལ་བར་མཛད། །
And a skillful jeweler, knowing about this [gold], would remove the clay,
So the omniscient one sees that the mind, which resembles pure gold, is settled
And removes its obscurations by way of the strokes that are the means of teaching the dharma.
鑄師知無熱 然後去泥障
如來亦如是 見眾生佛性
儼然處煩惱 如像在摸中
能以巧方便 善用說法椎
打破煩惱摸 顯發如來藏
- Au fait de la vraie nature de la forme en or, brillante et pure,
- Confinée dans l’argile refroidie, l’orfèvre l’en dégage.
- De même, les omniscients, qui connaissent l’or pur de l’esprit apaisé,
- Enseignent-ils le Dharma pour faire disparaître les voiles
- en frappant « là où il faut ».
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Obermiller (1931) [6]
- Ju s t as a statue wrought of pure, shining gold and covered by earth
- Is seen by one who, knowing its true nature, removes the earth,一
- In the same way the Omniscient perceives
- The quiescent Spirit which is like gold,
- And, by teaching the Doctrine, produces a cisel
- Through which he removes all the Obscurations.
- The meaning of all these examples is in short as follows:一
Takasaki (1966) [7]
- Just as a statue made of pure, shining gold
- Would become cool within the earthen covering,
- And, knowing this, a skillful jewel-maker would remove the clay;
- In the same way the Omniscient perceives that
- The Mind, which is like pure gold, is quiescent,
- And, by means of a stroke [called] the method of teaching the Doctrine
- He removes the obscurations.
Fuchs (2000) [8]
- Recognizing the nature of an image of peaceful appearance,
- flawless and made from shimmering gold,
- while it is [still] contained in its mold, an expert removes the layers of clay.
- Likewise the omniscient know the peaceful mind, which is similar to pure gold,
- and remove the obscurations by teaching the Dharma, [just as the mold] is struck and chipped away.
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- 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.
- Skt. śāntam, DP zhi ba. This means that the molten gold has cooled down and has become solid.
- With Schmithausen, I follow MA saṃchedayed (corresponding to DP sell bar byed) against J saṃcodayed (the same goes for saṃchedayen and saṃchedayaty against saṃcodayen and saṃcodayaty in I.126).
- I follow MA/MB prahāravidhibhiḥ against J prahāravidhitaḥ. "Strokes to the strokes with a chisel or hammer (DP bridge spayed) to remove the clay mold from the golden statue inside.
- 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.