Verse II.64
Verse II.64 Variations
ऋद्धिपादप्रकाशाच्च तैरवस्थानशक्तितः
ṛddhipādaprakāśācca tairavasthānaśaktitaḥ
དག་པའི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་རབ་འཇུག་ཕྱིར། །
རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་རྐང་པ་སྟོན་པར་ནི། །
དེ་ཡིས་གནས་པར་སྤྱོད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །
Manifesting in buddhahood,
By virtue of the one who displays the limbs of miraculous power
Being able to remain [in the world] through them,
- Comme la bouddhéité est totalement imprégnée
- D’une compassion pure et immaculée ;
- Comme il use des quatre bases des pouvoirs miraculeux
- Pour agir en restant [dans le monde] ;
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Obermiller (1931) [9]
- The Buddha thus makes manifest
- His Commiseration, pure and immaculate,
- And shows his miraculous activity,
- Which he applies in his acts, abiding eternally.
Takasaki (1966) [10]
- In his Buddhahood, there is made manifest
- Compassion, pure and immaculate,
- He shows his [four] bases of Miraculous Powers,
- By which power he abides in the world;
Fuchs (2000) [11]
- Buddhahood supremely expresses itself
- as compassion both cleansed and purified.
- Appearing on the feet of miraculous powers
- they [can] act forever by means of these.
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- 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.
- As will be seen in the text below, in verses II.63–68, two lines each correspond to the ten reasons in II.62 for buddhahood’s being permanent, with "protector of the world"in II.62d (VT fol. 14v6: lokanāthatvāt) being considered the tenth reason.
- I follow MB °pādapraṇetuś ca against J pādaprakāśāc ca.
- The phrase in "[ ]" is found in C.
- I follow VT (fol. 14v6) °śaraṇādyutpattitaḥ against MB and J °śaraṇābhyupapattitaḥ (confirmed by DP skyabs la sogs pa ’thad phyir ro). VT furthermore glosses "refuge" as "dharmakāya, sambhogakāya, nirmāṇakāya."
- . I follow MB nityatāśaraṇānāṃ (confirmed by VT, fol. 14v6) against J nityam aśaraṇānāṃ.
- 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.