Verse IV.74

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.74

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Verse IV.74 Variations

यथा निम्नोन्नतं व्योम्नि दृश्यते न च तत्तथा
बुद्धेष्वपि तथा सर्व दृश्यते न च तत्तथा

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

yathā nimnonnataṃ vyomni dṛśyate na ca tattathā
buddheṣvapi tathā sarva dṛśyate na ca tattathā

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

མཁའ་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་མཐོ་དང་དམའ། །
མཐོང་ཡང་དེ་ནི་དེ་ལྟ་མིན། །
དེ་བཞིན་ཐམས་ཅད་སངས་རྒྱས་ལ། །
མཐོང་ཡང་དེ་ནི་དེ་ལྟ་མིན། །

Dege, PHI, 140

Highs and lows are seen in space,
But it is not like that at all.
Likewise, everything can be seen in the buddhas,
But they are not like that at all.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 451

Et pourtant vu là-haut ou là-bas,

L’espace n’est ni haut ni bas.

De même, le Bouddha n’est pas

Comme tout ce que l’on peut voir de lui.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། ཅུང་ཟད་མེད་ཅིང་སྣང་བ་མེད། །དམིགས་པ་མེད་ཅིང་རྟེན་མེད་ལ། །མིག་གི་ལམ་ལས་རབ་འདས་པ། །གཟུགས་མེད་{br}བསྟན་དུ་མེད་པ་ཡི། །མཁའ་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་མཐོ་དང་དམའ། །མཐོང་ཡང་དེ་ནི་དེ་ལྟར་མིན། །དེ་བཞིན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ། །མཐོང་ཡང་དེ་ནི་དེ་ལྟར་མིན།

(8) [That sūtra also] says that [buddha activity] is similar to space.

Though it is insubstantial, without appearance,

Without support, P132b) without basis,

Beyond the pathway of the eyes,

Formless, and indemonstrable, IV.73

Highs and lows are seen in space,

But it is not like that at all.

Likewise, everything can be seen in the buddhas,

But they are not like that at all. IV.74

ākāśavaditi/

niṣkiṃcane nirābhāse nirālambe nirāśraye/

cakṣuṣpathavyatikrānte'pyarūpiṇyanidarśane//73//

yathā nimnonnataṃ vyomni dṛśyate na ca tattathā/

buddheṣvapi tathā sarva dṛśyate na ca tattathā//74//

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

Although it is experienced (as divisible)

In higher and in lower (parts),

This is not its true nature,

Which is that of being one whole.

Similarly, though the Buddha is seen in all his different forms,

He is not such as we perceive him

(Being unique and undifferentiated).

Takasaki (1966)

Though being so, the sky is seen as low and high,

But, in reality, it is not like that;

Similarly, all kinds of forms are seen in the Buddha,

But, in reality, the Buddha is not like that.

Fuchs (2000)

Nevertheless it is seen as being high and low,

but it is not at all like that.

Likewise all [his appearances] are seen as Buddha,

but he is not at all like that.

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