Verse I.16

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.16

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यावद्‍भाविकता ज्ञेयपर्यन्तगतया धिया
सर्वसत्त्वेषु सर्वज्ञधर्मतास्तित्वदर्शनात्

yāvadbhāvikatā jñeyaparyantagatayā dhiyā
sarvasattveṣu sarvajñadharmatāstitvadarśanāt

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

ཤེས་བྱ་མཐར་ཐུག་རྟོགས་པའི་བློས། །
ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཆོས་ཉིད་ནི། །
སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཡོད་པར། །
མཐོང་ཕྱིར་ཇི་སྙེད་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད། །

Dege, PHI, 110

[The wisdom of] being variety is due to
The intelligence that encompasses the entire range of the knowable
Seeing the existence of the true nature
Of omniscience in all sentient beings.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 346.

自性清淨心及煩惱所染應知又有二種修行謂如 實修行及遍修行難證知義如實修行者謂見眾生自性清淨佛性境界故偈言無障淨智者如實見眾生自性清淨性佛法身境界故遍修行者謂遍十地一切境界故見一切 眾生有一切智故
(This verse is not marked as such in the Chinese translation.)

http://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/en/T31n1611_p0825a01

Avec l’intelligence qui réalise l’état ultime des phénomènes,

[Ils connaissent] la diversité parce qu’ils voient

L’omnisciente essence du réel

Présente en tous les êtres.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།{br}ཤེས་བྱ་མཐར་ཐུག་རྟོགས་པའི་བློས། །ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཆོས་ཉིད་ནི། །སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཡོད་པ། །མཐོང་ཕྱིར་ཇི་སྙེད་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད། །དེ་ལ་ཇི་སྙེད་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་ནི་ཤེས་བྱའི་དངོས་པོ་མཐའ་དག་མཐར་ཐུག་པར་རྟོགས་པ་ལ་འཇིག་རྟེན་ལས་འདས་པའི་ཤེས་{br}རབ་ཀྱིས་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཐ་ན་དུད་འགྲོའི་སྐྱེ་གནས་སུ་གྱུར་པ་རྣམས་ལ་ཡང་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་མཐོང་བ་ལས་རིག་པར་བྱའོ། །བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་མཐོང་བ་དེ་ཡང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ས་དང་པོ་ཉིད་ལས་སྐྱེ་སྟེ། ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་{br}ཀུན་ཏུ་འགྲོ་བའི་དོན་དུ་རྟོགས་པའི་ཕྱིར་རོ།

[The wisdom of] being variety is due to

The intelligence that encompasses the entire range of the knowable

Seeing the existence of the true nature

Of omniscience in all sentient beings. I.16

Now, [the wisdom of the tathāgata heart as] being variety is to be understood due to the supramundane prajñā that encompasses the entire range of knowable entities seeing {P84a} the existence of the tathāgata heart in all sentient beings, even in those who are born in the animal realm. This seeing of bodhisattvas arises on the first bodhisattvabhūmi since they realize the dharmadhātu as being the actuality of omnipresence.

yāvadbhāvikatā jñeyaparyantagatayā dhiyā/

sarvasattveṣu sarvajñadharmatāstitvadarśanāt//16//

tatra yāvadbhāvikatā sarvajñeyavastuparyantagatayā lokottarayā prajñayā sarvasattveṣvantaśastiryagyonigateṣvapi tathāgatagarbhāstitvadarśanādveditavyā/ tacca darśanaṃ bodhisattvasya prathamāyāmeva bodhisattvabhūmāvutpadyate sarvatragāthane dharmadhātuprativedhāt/

知如是等聖者勝鬘經中廣說自性清淨心及煩惱所染應知又有二種修行謂如實修行及遍修行難證知義如實修行者謂見眾生自性清淨佛性境界故偈言無障淨智者如實見眾生自性清淨性佛法身境界故遍修行者謂遍十地一切境界故見一切眾生有一切智故又遍一切境界者以遍一切境界依出世間慧見一切眾生乃至畜生有如來藏應知彼見一切眾生有真如佛性初地菩薩摩訶薩以遍證一切真如法界故偈言無閡淨智眼見諸眾生性遍無量境界故

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

Through the Wisdom which penetrates into the background of everything cognizable,

They perceive the Essence of the Omniscient

As it exists in all living beings.

This is their knowledge of the Empirical Reality.

Takasaki (1966)

Their extent [of perception] is 'as far as ',

Because they perceive the existence

Of the nature of Omniscience in all living beings,

By the intellect reaching as far as

the limit of the knowable.

Fuchs (2000)

Their understanding, which realizes the knowable

as well as [its] ultimate condition, sees

that the state of omniscience is within all beings.

Thus the [noble ones] know completely.

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This verse is not marked as such in the Taishō.

An important sūtra source for the Ratnagotravibhāga, particularly for its discussion of the nine examples that illustrate how all sentient beings possess buddha-nature.