Verse I.160

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|VerseNumber=I.160
|MasterNumber=160
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|VariationOriginal=पूर्वमेवं व्यवस्थाप्य तन्त्रे पुनरिहोत्तरे<br>पञ्चदोषप्रहाणाय धात्वस्तित्वं प्रकाशितम्
|VariationTrans=pūrvamevaṃ vyavasthāpya tantre punarihottare<br>pañcadoṣaprahāṇāya dhātvastitvaṃ prakāśitam
|VariationTransSource=E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.<ref>[http://www.dsbcproject.org/canon-text/content/335/1381 Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input]</ref>
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|VariationLanguage=Tibetan
|VariationOriginal=།སྔར་ནི་དེ་ལྟར་རྣམ་བཞག་ནས།<br>།སླར་ཡང་བླ་མའི་རྒྱུད་འདིར་ནི།<br>།ཉེས་པ་ལྔ་དག་སྤང་བའི་ཕྱིར།<br>།ཁམས་ཡོད་ཉིད་ཅེས་བསྟན་པ་ཡིན།
|VariationOriginalSource=[https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/kdbs/degetengyur/pbs/2381005 Dege, PHI, 123]
|VariationTrans=It was presented in this way before<br>But later in this ultimate continuum here<br>It is explained that the basic element exists<br>In order to relinquish the five flaws.
|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 413 <ref>[[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.</ref>
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|OtherTranslations=<h6>Obermiller (1931) <ref>Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.</ref></h6>
:So has it been ascertained before.
:Then, subsequently, in this Highest of Teachings,
:In order to remove the 5 kinds of defects (in a living being),
:It is shown that the Essence of the Buddha exists.

<h6>Takasaki (1966) <ref>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.</ref></h6>
:So has it been ascertained 4 'before';
:But now, in this 'ultimate' Doctrine,
:In order to remove the 5 defects [caused by the previous teaching],
:It is shown that the Essence of the Buddha exists.

<h6>Fuchs (2000) <ref>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.</ref></h6>
:For the time being it was thus expounded.
:Additionally in this unsurpassable continuity
:it was then taught: "The element is present,"
:so that the five evils would be abandoned.
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