Verse II.65
Verse II.65 Variations
सदाचिन्त्यसमाधानसुखसंपत्तियोगतः
sadācintyasamādhānasukhasaṃpattiyogataḥ
གཉིས་སུ་འཛིན་ལས་གྲོལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །
རྟག་ཏུ་བསམ་ཡས་ཏིང་འཛིན་གྱི། །
བདེ་བ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་ལྡན་ཕྱིར། །
At [saṃsāric] existence and nirvāṇa as being two,
By virtue of always being endowed with the fulfillment
Of the bliss of inconceivable samādhi,
- Comme avec la connaissance il s’est affranchi
- De la croyance à la dualité du saṃsāra et du nirvāṇa ;
- Comme il ne se déprend jamais de la félicité parfaite
- D’inconcevables recueillements d’extase ;
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Obermiller (1931) [9]
- Owing to his Wisdom, he is free from the conception
- Of Saṃsāra and Nirvāṇa (as 2 separate entities);
- As he constantly partakes of the complement of bliss
- Of the inconceivable concentrated trance,
Takasaki (1966) [10]
- Owing to his Wisdom, he is liberated from
- The dualistic conception of Saṃsāra and Nirvāṇa;
- By his constant practice of the inconceivable meditation,
- He partakes of the complement of bliss,
Fuchs (2000) [11]
- By knowledge they are freed from the belief
- fixed on the duality of samsara and nirvana.
- They always possess the best possible bliss
- of samadhi, beyond ideation [and end].
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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.