Verse I.141
Verse I.141 Variations
विकोशगर्भवज्ज्ञानमविकल्पं विपाकवत्
vikośagarbhavajjñānamavikalpaṃ vipākavat
མངལ་སྦུབས་དྲི་མ་དག་དང་མཚུངས། །
མངལ་སྦུབས་བྲལ་འདྲ་མི་རྟོག་པའི། །
ཡེ་ཤེས་རྣམ་པར་སྨིན་པ་བཞིན། །
Resemble the stains of the enclosure of a womb.
Similar to an embryo’s being delivered from its enclosure,
Nonconceptual wisdom possesses maturation.
遠離胎藏智 無分別淳熟
- Les souillures présentes sur les sept terres [impures]
- Sont comparables aux souillures d’une matrice
- Et la sagesse non conceptuelle et parfaitement mûre
- À un [embryon] délivré de la matrice.
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Obermiller (1931) [7]
- The stains relating to the first 7 Stages
- Are like the impurities in the interior of a womb,
- And the non-dialectical wisdom resembles the mature form
- Delivered from the coverings of the womb.
Takasaki (1966) [8]
- The stains remaining in the [first] 7 Stages
- Are like the impurities of the receptacle of an embryo,
- And the non-discriminative Wisdom has a resemblance
- To the matured form of an embryo delivered from its covering.
Fuchs (2000) [9]
- The stains based on the seven [impure] levels
- resemble the defilements of the shrouding womb.
- Concept-free primordial wisdom [is released]
- like the mature [prince] from the womb's confine.
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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.
- DP "Just as an unknown treasure is not obtained due to its gems being obscured, so the self-arisen in people [skye la is difficult to construct] is obscured by the ground of the latent tendencies of ignorance" (ji ltar nor ni bsgribs pas na / mi shes gter mi thob pa ltar / de bzhin skye la rang byung nyid / ma rig bag chags sa yis bsgribs /).
- Against Takasaki and DP (ram par smin pa bzhin) understanding °vat in vipākavat as "like,"I follow de Jong’s suggestion of taking vipākavat as a possessive adjective relating to jñānam Thus, the nonconceptual wisdom mentioned here seems to refer to the wisdom on the last three bhūmis that emerges from the stains of the preceding seven bhūmis, just as an embryo emerges from the womb.
- DP omit "wisdom."
- DP "basic element" (khams).
- 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.
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