Verse IV.53
Verse IV.53 Variations
प्रतिभासं यथा ब्रह्मा दर्शयत्य् अप्रयत्नतः
pratibhāsaṃ yathā brahmā darśayaty aprayatnataḥ
གནས་ནས་འཕྲོ་བ་མེད་བཞིན་དུ། །
ལྷ་ཡི་གནས་ནི་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ། །
སྣང་བ་འབད་མེད་སྟོན་པ་ལྟར། །
From the abode belonging to Brahmā,
Effortlessly displays his appearance
Everywhere in the sphere of the gods,
- De même que, sans quitter son palais,
- Brahma manifeste des apparences
- De lui-même dans tous les lieux divins
- Sans fournir le moindre effort,
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Other English translations[edit]
Obermiller (1931) [5]
- As Brahma, without moving from his abode,
- In all the regions of the gods
- Demonstrates his apparition without effort,
Takasaki (1966) [6]
- Just as Brahmā, without moving from his palace,
- Manifests his apparition, without any effort,
- In the world of gods everywhere;—
Fuchs (2000) [7]
- Just like the way in which Brahma,
- without departing from his abode,
- effortlessly shows his appearance
- in all the residences of the gods,
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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.
- Jñānālokālaṃkārasūtra, D100, fols. 283a.5–284b.5.
- 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.