Verse IV.28
Verse IV.28 Variations
पुष्पादीनि क्षिपेयुः प्रणिहितमनसो नारीनरगणाः
वैडूर्यस्वच्छभुते मनसि मुनिपतिच्छायाधिगमने
चित्राण्युत्पादयन्ति प्रमुदितमनसस्तद्वज्जिनसुताः
puṣpādīni kṣipeyuḥ praṇihitamanaso nārīnaragaṇāḥ
vaiḍūryasvacchabhute manasi munipaticchāyādhigamane
citrāṇyutpādayanti pramuditamanasastadvajjinasutāḥ
བུད་མེད་སྐྱེས་ཚོགས་སྨོན་པའི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་མེ་ཏོག་ལ་སོགས་འཐོར་བ་ལྟར། །
དག་པ་བཻ་ཌཱུརྱ་འདྲའི་སེམས་ལ་སྣང་བའི་ཐུབ་དབང་ཐོབ་བྱའི་ཕྱིར། །
རབ་དགའི་སེམས་ལྡན་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲས་རྣམས་དེ་བཞིན་སེམས་རབ་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད། །
Through observing the rules of fasting and spiritual discipline and with a determined mind, would strew flowers and so on.
Likewise, for the sake of attaining the reflection of the lord of sages in their minds, which resemble a transparent beryl,
The children of the victors give rise to the mind-sets [of awakening] with a joyful mind.
- Pour atteindre l’état d’Indra, les hommes et les femmes suivraient
- les préceptes d’un jour et les règles de conduite. Ils opteraient
- pour le don et les autres vertus
- Et, formant de pieux souhaits, ils prieraient en répandant des fleurs
- et [en s’adonnant à d’] autres [dévotions]. (IV, 28ab)
- De même, pour atteindre l’état du Seigneur des Sages
- qui apparaît dans leur l’esprit pareil à un pur lapis-lazuli,
- Pleins d’une douce allégresse, les enfants des Vainqueurs
- engendrent l’esprit d’Éveil. (IV, 28cd)
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Obermiller (1931) [11]
- However, anxious to attain (the desired state),
- Devoting themselves to worship,
- To obeissances, charity and the like,
- The multitudes of men and women
- Would offer flowers with minds full of sublime desire.
- Like that, in order to attain (the state of) the Lord of Sages,
- Whose form appears in the mind as in a pure Vaiḍūrya stone,
- The sons of the Buddha, with minds full of delight,
- Direct their minds toward Supreme Enlightenment.
Takasaki (1966) [12]
- For obtaining that state, the multitudes of men and women,
- Whose mind intends to perform charity and the rest,
- Through observing rules regarding fast and conduct,
- Would scatter flowers with minds full of sublime desire.
- Similarly, for obtaining the shadow of the Lord of Sages
- On their mind which is radiant like the Vaiḍūrya stone,
- The sons of the Buddha, with minds full of delight,
- Produce various pictures [showing the Buddha's life, etc.]
Fuchs (2000) [13]
- Yet, for their real attainment the men and women
- would side with the vows of individual release,
- with penitence, authentic giving, and so forth,
- scattering flowers and so on with longing minds.
- Likewise, to attain the state of a Lord of Munis shining forth in their
- minds, which is similar to pure lapis lazuli,
- the heirs of the Victor, their vision filled with sheer delight, give rise
- to bodhichitta in the most perfect manner.
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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.
- D100, fols. 278b.6–280b.1.
- DP "yāna."
- I follow MB saddharmakāyam adhyātmaṃ (corresponding to DP nang gi dam pa’i chos sku) against J saddharmakāyaṃ madhyasthaṃ.
- With Schmithausen and against Takasaki, I take the compound °viṣamasthānāntaramala as consisting of viṣamasthāna, antara, and mall.
- VT (fol. 16r4) glosses śubhra as "clear, transparent" (svacchā). Śubhra can also mean "radiant," "splendid," "spotless," and "bright"; DP have mazes pa.
- I follow Schmithausen’s suggested reading of MB surapatibhavanavyūhendramarutām against J surapatibhavanaṃ māhendramarutām, with °vyūha being supported by D tshogs (P mistakenly has sna tshogs instead of gas tshogs). The maruts are the storm gods who are the retinue of Indra.
- I follow de Jong’s suggested reading cittāny udpādayanti (supported by D seems rab bskyed byed; P mistakenly has gshegs instead of seems) against J cittān vyutpādayanti and Chowdury’s "correction" citrāṇy utpādayanati (see de Jong 1968, 50). Obviously, this refers to all the kinds of mind-sets that represent or flow from bodhicitta.
- 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.