Verse I.21

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<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>
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:In the absolute sense, the refuge
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:And the multitudes of Saints, too, have their issue in the latter.
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<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>
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:From the ultimate standpoint,
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:Buddhahood is the sole Refuge of the world,
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:Because the Sage has the body of the Doctrine,
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:And because in that the Community sets the ultimate goal.
  
 
<h6>Holmes (1985) <ref>Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.</ref></h6>
 
<h6>Holmes (1985) <ref>Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.</ref></h6>

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.21

Verse I.21 Variations

जगच्छरणमेकत्र बुद्धत्वं पारमार्थिकम्
मुनेर्धर्मशरीरत्वात् तन्निष्ठत्वाद्‍गणस्य च
jagaccharaṇamekatra buddhatvaṃ pāramārthikam
munerdharmaśarīratvāt tanniṣṭhatvādgaṇasya ca
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།དམ་པའི་དོན་དུ་འགྲོ་བ་ཡི།
།སྐྱབས་ནི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཉག་གཅིག་ཡིན།
།ཐུབ་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཅན་ཕྱིར།
།ཚོགས་ཀྱང་དེ་ཡི་མཐར་ཐུག་ཕྱིར།
Dege, PHI, 110
Ultimately, however, the single refuge
Of the world is buddhahood
Because the sage possesses the body of the dharma
And because it is the consummation of the assembly.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 350. [2]
Au sens le plus sacré, les êtres
N’ont qu’un seul refuge : le Bouddha,
Car le Sage a pour corps le Dharma
Et qu’il est le but ultime de la Communauté.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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Listed by date of publication
Obermiller (1931) [3]
In the absolute sense, the refuge
Of all living beings is only the Buddha.
Indeed, the Lord is possessed of the Cosmical Body,
And the multitudes of Saints, too, have their issue in the latter.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
From the ultimate standpoint,
Buddhahood is the sole Refuge of the world,
Because the Sage has the body of the Doctrine,
And because in that the Community sets the ultimate goal.
Holmes (1985) [5]
Ultimately, only the buddha constitutes a refuge for beings
because that great victor is the embodiment of dharma
which is the ultimate attainment of the sangha.
Fuchs (2000) [6]
In a true sense only the Buddha is beings' refuge,
since the Great Sage embodies the dharmakaya,
and the Assembly also reaches its ultimate goal
when these [qualities of dharmakaya are attained].

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Academic notes[edit]

  1. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  2. 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.
  3. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  4. 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.
  5. Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.
  6. 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.

Uttaratantra - The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra. Skt. उत्तरतन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ Ch. 寶性論

These are the root verses of the Uttaratantra attributed to Maitreya by the Tibetan tradition.

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