Verse IV.5
Verse IV.5 Variations
तदावृत्तौ तदुच्छित्तिप्रत्यये चाविकल्पतः
tadāvṛttau taducchittipratyaye cāvikalpataḥ
དེ་འབྲས་དེ་ཡི་ཡོངས་འཛིན་དང་། །
དེ་སྒྲིབ་དེ་གཅོད་རྐྱེན་ལ་ནི། །
རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་མེད་ཕྱིར་རོ། །
The support of that, the result of that,
Taking hold of that, the obscurations of that,
And the condition for eliminating them.
- [Les activités éveillées ne s’interrompent jamais]
- Parce qu’elles ont lieu sans pensées comme celles-ci
- La libération définitive, son point d’appui,
- Son fruit, les êtres pris en charge,
- Les voiles et la condition de leur élimination.
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Other English translations[edit]
Obermiller (1931) [9]
- And, as concerns the factors of deliverance and their foundation,
- Their result and the favourable object,
- The Obscurations and the conditions for their removal.
Takasaki (1966) [10]
- Because, [this act of conversion is] non-discriminative
- With regard to Deliverance and its support,
- To the result of [partaking of] this support and the receptacle
- which accepts this result,
- And to the obscurations [which cover] this receptacle and the condition
- by which these obscurations are removed.
Fuchs (2000) [11]
- Since, with regard to the definitive revelation of release,
- its support, its fruit, those being fully sustained,
- their obscurations, and the condition cutting these veils,
- there is no ideation, [buddha activity is uninterrupted].
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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.
- With Schmithausen, MB is to be read as yā yatra (confirmed by DP gang gang du) instead of J yāvac ca (yā is also found and explained in IV.4c)
- As Schmithausen points out, this verse needs to be connected back to line IV.3d.
- All the instances of "of that"refer to the phrase that immediately precedes them.
- Skt. bodeḥ sattvaḥ parigrahaḥ. This refers to bodhisattvas as the ones who take hold of or attain awakening.
- Both DP and C read "the bhūmis."
- 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.