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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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:Just as, being essentially free from (dialectical) thought-construction,
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::nature, pervades all that exists.<ref>This is verse 48 in Obermiller's translation</ref>
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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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:Just as being of indiscriminative nature,
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:Space pervades everywhere,
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:Similarly all-pervading is the Essence,
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:The immaculate nature of the mind.
  
 
<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.49

Verse I.49 Variations

सर्वत्रानुगतं यद्वन्निर्विकल्पात्मकं नभः
चित्तप्रकृतिवैमल्यधातुः सर्वत्रगस्तथा
sarvatrānugataṃ yadvannirvikalpātmakaṃ nabhaḥ
cittaprakṛtivaimalyadhātuḥ sarvatragastathā
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།ཇི་ལྟར་རྟོག་མེད་བདག་ཉིད་ཅན།
།ནམ་མཁའ་ཀུན་ཏུ་རྗེས་སོང་ལྟར།
།སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་དྲི་མེད་དབྱིངས།
།དེ་བཞིན་ཀུན་ཏུ་འགྲོ་བ་ཉིད།
Dege, PHI, 112-113
Just as space with its character
Of nonconceptuality is present everywhere,
So the stainless basic element that is
The nature of the mind is omnipresent.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 373 [2]
De même que l’espace qui a pour essence
De ne pas penser se répand en tout lieu,
De même, la nature de l’esprit est omniprésente
Comme l’immensité immaculée.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

RGVV Commentary on Verse I.49

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།དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་ཁམས་{br}གནས་སྐབས་གསུམ་པོ་དེ་དག་ཉིད་དུ་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ་འགྲོ་བའི་དོན་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། ཇི་ལྟར་རྟོགས་མེད་བདག་ཉིད་ཅན། །ནམ་མཁའ་ཀུན་ཏུ་རྗེས་སོང་ལྟར། །སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་དྲི་མེད་དབྱིངས། །དེ་བཞིན་ཀུན་ཏུ་འགྲོ་བ་ཉིད།

Other English translations[edit]

Listed by date of publication
Obermiller (1931) [3]
Just as, being essentially free from (dialectical) thought-construction,
The element of space is ubiquitous,
In the same way the Immaculate Essence which is of spiritual
nature, pervades all that exists.[4]
Takasaki (1966) [5]
Just as being of indiscriminative nature,
Space pervades everywhere,
Similarly all-pervading is the Essence,
The immaculate nature of the mind.
Holmes (1985) [6]
Just as space, concept-free by nature,
is all-embracing, so also is the immaculate space,
the nature of mind, all-pervading.
Fuchs (2000) [7]
Just as space, which is by nature free from thought,
pervades everything,
the undefiled expanse, which is the nature of mind,
is all-pervading.

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Commentaries on this verse[edit]

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. This is verse 48 in Obermiller's translation
  5. 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.
  6. Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.
  7. 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.

ātman - Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena. Skt. आत्मन् Tib. བདག་ Ch. 我,灵魂

niṣprapañca - Freedom from conceptual elaborations. Skt. निष्प्रपञ्च Tib. སྤྲོས་བྲལ་

dhātu - A fundamental component or essential constituent. Skt. धातु Tib. ཁམས་ Ch. 界

sems nyid - Commonly found in Dzogchen and Mahāmudrā literature, this term denotes the true, natural state of mind as it is. Often used in these traditions as a synonym for buddha-nature. Skt. चित्तत्व Tib. སེམས་ཉིད་

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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