Verse I.99

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|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 394 <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]], 394 <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=::'''Suppose a man with the stainless divine eye were to see'''  
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|EnglishCommentary=[In the first example,] the '''stains''' are like '''the sheath of a''' decaying lotus, while the tathāgata element resembles a '''buddha''' [within].<ref>In the ''Tathāgatagarbhasūtra'', this example occurs twice. The introduction of the sūtra describes in detail how the Buddha miraculously manifests in the sky thousands of fragrant opened lotus flowers with buddhas sitting upon them, emitting light. These lotuses blossom and fade at the same time, exuding a foul smell, but the buddhas still remain within them without a stain. In the sūtra’s section of the nine examples proper, this example is presented as it is here in the ''Uttaratantra''. For details of the differences between the nine examples as presented in the ''Tathāgatagarbhasūtra'' and the ''Uttaratantra'', see Zimmermann 2002, 105–44.</ref>
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::'''Suppose a man with the stainless divine eye were to see'''  
 
::'''A tathāgata shining with a thousand marks,'''  
 
::'''A tathāgata shining with a thousand marks,'''  
 
::'''Dwelling enclosed in a fading lotus,'''  
 
::'''Dwelling enclosed in a fading lotus,'''  
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::'''So the sage beholds the buddha heart obscured by the sheaths of the stains such as desire and hatred,  
 
::'''So the sage beholds the buddha heart obscured by the sheaths of the stains such as desire and hatred,  
 
::'''Thus annihilating its obscurations out of his compassion for the world. I.101
 
::'''Thus annihilating its obscurations out of his compassion for the world. I.101
 
[In the second example,] the afflictions are like the insects {D107a} that are bees, while the tathāgata element resembles honey.
 
 
|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>
 
:Suppose, in a lotus flower of ugly form,
 
:Suppose, in a lotus flower of ugly form,

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.99

Verse I.99 Variations

यथा विवर्णाम्बुजगर्भवेष्टितं
तथागतं दीप्तसहस्रलक्षणम्
नरः समीक्ष्यामलदिव्यलोचनो
विमोचयेदम्बुजपत्त्रकोशतः
yathā vivarṇāmbujagarbhaveṣṭitaṃ
tathāgataṃ dīptasahasralakṣaṇam
naraḥ samīkṣyāmaladivyalocano
vimocayedambujapattrakośataḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།ཇི་ལྟར་མདོག་ངན་པད་མའི་ཁོང་གནས་པ།
།མཚན་སྟོང་གིས་འབར་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ནི།
།དྲི་མེད་ལྷ་ཡི་མིག་ལྡན་མིས་མཐོང་ནས།
།ཆུ་སྐྱེས་འདབ་མའི་སྦུབས་ནས་འབྱིན་བྱེད་པ།
Suppose a man with the stainless divine eye were to see
A tathāgata shining with a thousand marks,
Dwelling enclosed in a fading lotus,
And thus would free him from the sheath of the lotus petals.
Dans un lotus aux couleurs défraîchies se trouve
Un tathāgata rayonnant de mille marques.
Un homme qui a purifié l’œil divin le voit
Et l’extrait de la corolle fanée du lotus.

RGVV Commentary on Verse I.99

།ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ནི་པདྨ་ངན་པའི་སྦུབས་དང་འདྲ་ལ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་ཁམས་ནི་པདྨ་ལྟ་བུ་སྟེ། ཇི་ལྟར་མདོག་ངན་པདྨ་འི་ཁོང་གནས་པ། །མཚན་སྟོང་གིས་འབར་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ནི། །དྲི་མེད་ལྷ་ཡི་མིག་ལྡན་མིས་{br}མཐོང་ནས། །ཆུ་སྐྱེས་པདྨ་འི་སྦུབས་ནས་འབྱིན་བྱེད་པ། །དེ་བཞིན་བདེ་གཤེགས་མནར་མེད་རྣམས་ལ་ཡང་། །སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་གྱིས་རང་ཆོས་ཉིད་གཟིགས་ཏེ། །སྒྲིབ་མེད་ཕྱི་མའི་མུར་གནས་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཡི། །བདག་ཅག་སྒྲིབ་པ་ལས་ནི་གྲོལ་བར་བྱེད། །ཇི་ལྟར་མི་སྡུག་པདྨ་{br}ཟུམ་ལ་བདེ་བར་གཤེགས་པ་ནི། །དེ་ཡི་ཁོང་གནས་ལྷ་མིག་མཐོང་ནས་འདབ་མ་གཅོད་བྱེད་ལྟར། །ཆགས་སྡང་སོགས་དྲི་སྦུབས་བསྒྲིབས་རྫོགས་སངས་སྙིང་པོའི་འགྲོ་གཟིགས་ཏེ། །ཐུགས་རྗེས་ཐུབ་པ་དེ་བཞིན་སྒྲིབ་པ་དེ་ནི་འཇོམས་པར་མཛད།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [4]
Suppose, in a lotus flower of ugly form,
The Buddha, shining with a thousand marks of beauty, were abiding,
And a man possessed of immaculate divine sight would perceive him
And draw him out from the petals of the water-born lotus;
Takasaki (1966) [5]
Suppose the Buddha, shining with a thousand marks [of virtue],
Were abiding in the inside a faded lotus flower,
And a man of immaculate divine sight would perceive him
And release him from the sheath of petals of lotus; —
Fuchs (2000) [6]
Seeing that in the calyx of an ugly-colored lotus
a tathagata dwells ablaze with a thousand marks,
a man endowed with the immaculate divine vision
takes it from the shroud of the water-born's petals.

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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. In the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra, this example occurs twice. The introduction of the sūtra describes in detail how the Buddha miraculously manifests in the sky thousands of fragrant opened lotus flowers with buddhas sitting upon them, emitting light. These lotuses blossom and fade at the same time, exuding a foul smell, but the buddhas still remain within them without a stain. In the sūtra’s section of the nine examples proper, this example is presented as it is here in the Uttaratantra. For details of the differences between the nine examples as presented in the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra and the Uttaratantra, see Zimmermann 2002, 105–44.
  4. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  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. 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.