Verse I.83.2

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|content=Here, DP<ref>D: Derge Tibetan Tripiṭaka. P: Peking Tibetan Tripiṭaka (Tokyo-Kyoto: Suzuki Research Foundation, 1956)</ref> insert the following two verses:
 
::The meaning of being permanent is its character of not changing into anything other
 
::The meaning of being permanent is its character of not changing into anything other
 
::Because it has the quality of being inexhaustible.  
 
::Because it has the quality of being inexhaustible.  
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::Because it has the quality of being unfabricated.
 
::Because it has the quality of being unfabricated.
  
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:Note that these two verses are inserted in an awkward place in DP since they are sandwiched between the sentence that ends in "according to the [''Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśa]sūtra" (mdo ji lta ba bzhin shes par bya’o)'' and the words "As it is said: . . ." (''ji skad du''), which indicate the beginning of the actual quote from that sūtra. Also, the two verses seem somewhat redundant because they are almost verbatim identical to both ''Uttaratantra'' I.79 and the quote from the ''Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśasūtra'' that follows them. GC (380) also notices the close similarity between the two verses and that sūtra quote and explicitly matches each of the two lines of these verses with the corresponding lines in the quote. In any case, Ut (DP) as well as all Tibetan commentaries consider these two verses to be part of the ''Uttaratantra''.}}
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:Note that these two verses are inserted in an awkward place in DP since they are sandwiched between the sentence that ends in "according to the [''Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśa]sūtra" (mdo ji lta ba bzhin shes par bya’o)'' and the words "As it is said: . . ." (''ji skad du''), which indicate the beginning of the actual quote from that sūtra. Also, the two verses seem somewhat redundant because they are almost verbatim identical to both ''Uttaratantra'' I.79 and the quote from the ''Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśasūtra'' that follows them. GC (380)<ref>GC: Gö Lotsāwa’s commentary on the Uttaratantra (’Gos lo tsā ba gzhon nu dpal 2003b)</ref> also notices the close similarity between the two verses and that sūtra quote and explicitly matches each of the two lines of these verses with the corresponding lines in the quote. In any case, Ut (DP) as well as all Tibetan commentaries consider these two verses to be part of the ''Uttaratantra''.}}
 
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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.83.2
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Verse I.83.2 Variations

།རྣམ་པར་མི་རྟོག་རང་བཞིན་ཕྱིར།
།གཉིས་མེད་ཆོས་ཉིད་ཞི་བའི་དོན།
།མ་བཅོས་ཡོན་ཏན་ཉིད་ཕྱིར་ན།
།འཇིག་མེད་དོན་ནི་གཡུང་དྲུང་ཉིད།
Dege, PHI, 115
The meaning of being peaceful is its true nature of nonduality
Because it has the nature of being nonconceptual.
Being eternal has the meaning of being indestructible
Because it has the quality of being unfabricated.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 1092, nt. 1394 [1]
La paix, c’est la non duelle essence du réel,
Puisqu’il a pour nature de ne pas penser.
L’éternité, c’est l’indestructibilité,
Puisqu’il n’a pas de qualités artificielles.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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Karl Brunnhölzl
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, pp. 1092-1093, nt. 1394 [2]

Here, DP[3] insert the following two verses:

The meaning of being permanent is its character of not changing into anything other
Because it has the quality of being inexhaustible.
The meaning of being everlasting is its character of being a refuge
Because it is equal to the final end.
The meaning of being peaceful is its true nature of nonduality
Because it has the nature of being nonconceptual.
Being eternal has the meaning of being indestructible
Because it has the quality of being unfabricated.
Note that these two verses are inserted in an awkward place in DP since they are sandwiched between the sentence that ends in "according to the [Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśa]sūtra" (mdo ji lta ba bzhin shes par bya’o) and the words "As it is said: . . ." (ji skad du), which indicate the beginning of the actual quote from that sūtra. Also, the two verses seem somewhat redundant because they are almost verbatim identical to both Uttaratantra I.79 and the quote from the Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśasūtra that follows them. GC (380)[4] also notices the close similarity between the two verses and that sūtra quote and explicitly matches each of the two lines of these verses with the corresponding lines in the quote. In any case, Ut (DP) as well as all Tibetan commentaries consider these two verses to be part of the Uttaratantra.


  1. 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.
  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. D: Derge Tibetan Tripiṭaka. P: Peking Tibetan Tripiṭaka (Tokyo-Kyoto: Suzuki Research Foundation, 1956)
  4. GC: Gö Lotsāwa’s commentary on the Uttaratantra (’Gos lo tsā ba gzhon nu dpal 2003b)

advaya - Literally, "without duality," it refers to that which is indivisible, in that it is not divided into two. Skt. अद्वय Tib. གཉིས་མེད་ Ch. 不二

sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt. सूत्र Tib. མདོ། Ch. 佛经

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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