Verse V.10
Verse V.10 Variations
बोधिचित्तं भवत्यस्य सततं प्रत्यपस्थितम्
bodhicittaṃ bhavatyasya satataṃ pratyapasthitam
ཤེས་རབ་ལ་སོགས་ཡོན་ཏན་སྣོད། །
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ནི་དེ་དག་ལ། །
རྟག་ཏུ་ཉེ་བར་གནས་པར་འགྱུར། །
Of qualities such as confidence, vigor,
Mindfulness, dhyāna, and prajñā
Is present in them at all times.
- Et l’esprit d’Éveil – réceptacle de détermination,
- De persévérance, de mémoire, de concentration,
- De connaissance et d’autres qualités encore –
- Les accompagne toujours.
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Obermiller (1931) [10]
- One becomes a receptacle of zeal,
- Of energy, faith, and concentration,
- Of Highest Wisdom and all the other virtues,
- And the mind directed toward Enlightenment1
- Is always extant with such (a Saint).
Takasaki (1966) [11]
- So in him the mind intent on Enlightenment,
- Being a receptacle of virtues like zeal, energy,
- Memory, contemplation, Transcendental Intellect, etc.,
- Comes to exist always.
Fuchs (2000) [12]
- Thus becoming vessels of all qualities,
- such as longing, diligence, mindfulness,
- meditative stability, wisdom, and so on,
- bodhichitta will be ever-present in them.
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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.
- I follow MA/MB °śakyatva° against J °śaktatva°.
- Following DP and C, tatcitta° is to be emended to tannitya°.
- As V.14 explains, these refer to the three spheres of agent, object, and action.
- DP "conceptions" (ram tog).
- DP "miserliness" (ser sna).
- MA/MB cāsyā instead of J cāsya.
- 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.