Verse III.2
From Buddha-Nature
Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse III.2
Verse III.2 Variations
आत्मसंपत्त्यधिष्ठानं शरीरं पारमार्थिकम्
परसंपत्त्यधिष्ठानमृषेः सांकेतिकं वपुः
परसंपत्त्यधिष्ठानमृषेः सांकेतिकं वपुः
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
ātmasaṃpattyadhiṣṭhānaṃ śarīraṃ pāramārthikam
parasaṃpattyadhiṣṭhānamṛṣeḥ sāṃketikaṃ vapuḥ
parasaṃpattyadhiṣṭhānamṛṣeḥ sāṃketikaṃ vapuḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
བདག་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ནི་འབྱོར་པའི་གནས། །
དམ་པའི་དོན་གྱི་སྐུ་ཡིན་ཏེ། །
དྲང་སྲོང་རྣམས་ཀྱི་བརྡ་ཡི་སྐུ། །
ཕ་རོལ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པའི་གནས། །
དམ་པའི་དོན་གྱི་སྐུ་ཡིན་ཏེ། །
དྲང་སྲོང་རྣམས་ཀྱི་བརྡ་ཡི་སྐུ། །
ཕ་རོལ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པའི་གནས། །
The ultimate body
Is the support of the fulfillment of one’s own [welfare].
The conventional body of the seer
Is the support of the fulfillment [of the welfare of] others.
Is the support of the fulfillment of one’s own [welfare].
The conventional body of the seer
Is the support of the fulfillment [of the welfare of] others.
- Le corps absolu est le lieu
- Des richesses personnelles.
- Le corps symbolique des sages
- Est le lieu du bien parfait des autres.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
RGVV Commentary on Verse III.2
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།འདི་ཅིས་བསྟན་ཞེ་ན། བདག་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ནི་འབྱོར་པའི་གནས། །
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་སྐུ་ཡིན་ཏེ། །དྲང་སྲོང་རྣམས་ཀྱི་བརྡ་ཡི་སྐུ། །ཕ་རོལ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པའི་གནས། །དང་པོའི་སྐུ་ནི་སྟོབས་ལ་སོགས། །བྲལ་བའི་ཡོན་ཏན་རྣམས་དང་ལྡན། །གཉིས་པ་སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་མཚན། །རྣམ་སྨིན་ཡོན་ཏན་དག་དང་ལྡན།
Other English translations[edit]
Obermiller (1931) [5]
- The position of perfect bliss for one’s own self
- Is the Body which represents the Absolute Truth,
- And the foundation for the complement (of the weal) of others
- Are the emanational forms of the Divine.
Takasaki (1966) [6]
- The Body which represents the Highest Truth
- Is the support for the completion of one's own [aim]
- And the support for the fulfilment of others' [aim]
- Is the Emanational Body of the Buddha.
Fuchs (2000) [7]
- The abode adhering to [benefit] for oneself
- is the kaya being [wisdom's] sacred object.
- The symbolic kaya of sages is the ground
- of best possible [benefit] for other beings.
Textual sources[edit]
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Academic notes[edit]
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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.
- VT (fol. 15v1–2) again glosses "the first body" as the sambhogakāya and "the second one" as the nirmāṇakāya.
- 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.
