Verse V.7
Verse V.7 Variations
चतुर्विधे जिनज्ञानविषयेऽस्मिन् यथोदिते
caturvidhe jinajñānaviṣaye'smin yathodite
དེ་ཡི་ཡོན་ཏན་དོན་སྒྲུབ་སྟེ། །
རྒྱལ་བ་ཡི་ནི་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཡུལ། །
རྣམ་བཞི་ཇི་སྐད་བརྗོད་འདི་ལ། །
Its qualities, and the promotion of welfare,
These four aspects of the object of the wisdom
Of the victors as they were described,
- La base, sa transformation, ses qualités
- Et le bien qu’elle accomplit : ces quatre objets
- De la connaissance des Vainqueurs
- Ont été expliqués dans le présent traité.
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Obermiller (1931) [10]
- The fundamental element, its metamorphose,
- The properties, and the acts pursuing the welfare (of the living beings)
- These are the 4 points discussed,
- Which are accessible only to the Wisdom of the Buddha.
Takasaki (1966) [11]
- The basis [of Buddhahood], its transformation,
- Its properties and the performance of welfare,
- In these four aspects of the sphere of Buddha's Wisdom,
- Which have been explained above,
Fuchs (2000) [12]
- The presence [of the element], its result,
- its qualities, and the achievement of benefit
- are the objects of understanding of a buddha.
- When towards these four, as explained above,
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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.