Verse I.81

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|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 386 <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>
 
|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 386 <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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|EnglishCommentary=What is taught by this?
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::'''It is not born, nor does it die.'''
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::'''It does not suffer,<ref>DP ''gnod''. </ref> nor does it age'''
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::'''Because it is permanent, everlasting,'''
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::'''Peaceful, and eternal'''. I.80
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::'''It is not [even] born in the form of bodies'''
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::'''Of a mental nature because it is permanent.'''
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::'''It does not [even] die by way of an inconceivable'''
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::'''Transformation because it is everlasting'''. I.81 {J54}
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::'''It does not [even] suffer from the subtle sicknesses'''
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::'''Of latent tendencies because it is peaceful.'''
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::'''It does not [even] age through uncontaminated'''
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::'''Formations because it is eternal'''. I.82
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The tathāgata element, which on the buddhabhūmi abides in its own absolutely stainless, pure, and luminous<ref>I follow MB °''prabhāsvarāyāṃ'' (DP '' ’od gsal ba'') against J °''prabhāsvaratāyāṃ''.</ref> nature, is not even born in the '''form of bodies of a mental nature because it is permanent''' in terms of its beginning in time. It does not even die by way of the death that is an inconceivable transformation because it is everlasting in terms of an end in time. {D103b} '''It does not''' even suffer from being seized by the ground of the '''latent tendencies''' of ignorance '''because it is peaceful''' in terms of a beginning and an end in time. Not befallen by what is meaningless, it does not even age through the transformation<ref>DP "maturation" (''yongs su smin pa'').</ref> that is the result of uncontaminated karma because it is eternal.
 
|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>
 
|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>
 
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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.81

Verse I.81 Variations

न जायते स नित्यत्वादात्मभावैर्मनोमयैः
अचिन्त्यपरिणामेन ध्रुवत्वान् म्रियते न सः
na jāyate sa nityatvādātmabhāvairmanomayaiḥ
acintyapariṇāmena dhruvatvān mriyate na saḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།དེ་ནི་ཡིད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་གྱི།
།ལུས་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་མེད་རྟག་པའི་ཕྱིར།
།བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་འགྱུར་འཆི་འཕོ་ཡིས།
།དེ་ནི་མི་འཆི་བརྟན་པའི་ཕྱིར།
Dege, PHI, 115
It is not [even] born in the form of bodies
Of a mental nature because it is permanent.
It does not [even] die by way of an inconceivable
Transformation because it is everlasting.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 386 [2]
Il ne naît pas dans un corps de nature mentale
Puisqu’il est permanent ;
Il ne meurt pas d’une mort aux inconcevables métamorphoses
Puisqu’il est stable ;
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

RGVV Commentary on Verse I.81

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།{br}འདིས་ཅི་བསྟན་ཞེ་ན། སྐྱེ་བ་མེད་ཅིང་འཆི་བ་མེད། །གནོད་མེད་རྒ་བ་མེད་པ་སྟེ། །དེ་ནི་རྟག་དང་བརྟན་ཕྱིར་དང་། །ཞི་བའི་ཕྱིར་དང་གཡུང་དྲུང་ཕྱིར། །དེ་ནི་ཡིད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་གྱི། །ལུས་ཀྱི་སྐྱེ་མེད་རྟག་པའི་ཕྱིར། །བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་བསྒྱུར་བ་ཡི། །འཆི་འཕོ་བརྟན་{br}ཕྱིར་དེ་མི་འཆི། །བག་ཆགས་ཕྲ་མོའི་ནད་རྣམས་ཀྱིས། །གནོད་མེད་ཞི་བ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ཕྱིར། །ཟག་མེད་མངོན་པར་འདུས་བྱས་ཀྱིས། །གཡུང་དྲུང་ཕྱིར་ན་རྒ་བ་མེད། །ཤིན་ཏུ་དྲི་མ་མེད་ཅིང་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་འོད་གསལ་བ་རང་གི་རང་བཞིན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ས་ལ་རྣམ་པར་གནས་པ་དེ་{br}བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་ཁམས་དེ་ནི་སྔོན་གྱི་མཐའ་ཉེ་བར་བཟུང་ནས། ཡིད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་གྱི་ལུས་ཀྱིས་སྐྱེ་བ་ཡང་མ་ཡིན་ཏེ། རྟག་པའི་ཕྱིར་རོ། །ཕྱི་མའི་མཐའ་ཉེ་བར་བཟུང་ནས་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་པར་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྒྱུར་བའི་འཆི་འཕོ་བས་འཆི་བ་མ་ཡིན་ཏེ། བརྟེན་པའི་
ཕྱིར་རོ། །སྔོན་དང་ཕྱི་མའི་མཐའ་ཉེ་བར་བཟུང་ནས། མ་རིག་པའི་བག་ཆགས་ཀྱིས་ཡོངས་སུ་འཛིན་པས་གནོད་པ་ཡང་མ་ཡིན་ཏེ། ཞི་བའི་ཕྱིར་རོ། །དེ་ལྟར་དོན་མེད་པས་མ་ཕོག་པ་གང་ཡིན་པ་དེ་ནི་གཡུང་དྲུང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ཕྱིར་ཟག་པ་མེད་པའི་ལས་ཀྱི་འབྲས་བུ་ཡོངས་སུ་སྨིན་{br}པར་རྒ་བ་ཡང་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [6]
Being eternal, it is not subjected
Even to the origination peculiar to the non-physical body.
It knows no death, since it is stable,
And does not migrate in an inconceivable way.
Takasaki (1966) [7]
Being eternal, it is not born
Even with [the form of] the Body made of mind,
Being everlasting, it does not die
Even with the Inconceivable Transformation.
Fuchs (2000) [8]
It is not [even] born in a body of mental nature,
since it is permanent. Steadfast it does not die,
not [even] through the death and transmigration
that constitute an inconceivable transformation.

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  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. DP gnod.
  4. I follow MB °prabhāsvarāyāṃ (DP ’od gsal ba) against J °prabhāsvaratāyāṃ.
  5. DP "maturation" (yongs su smin pa).
  6. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.

prabhāsvaratā - In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas. Skt. प्रभास्वर Tib. འོད་གསལ་ Ch. 光明

avidyā - Literally "unknowing," it refers to a lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of the nature of reality. As such, it is considered to be the root cause of suffering and the basis for the arising of all other negative mental factors. Skt. अविद्या Tib. མ་རིག་པ་ Ch. 無明

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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