Verse I.111

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|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 396 <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]], 396 <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=::'''[In the fourth example,] the afflictions are like an unclean place full of excrement, while the tathāgata element resembles gold.
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::'''Suppose a traveling person’s [piece of] gold'''
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::'''Were to fall into a filthy place full of excrement'''
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::'''And yet, being of an indestructible nature, would remain there'''
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::'''Just as it is for many hundreds of years.'''I.108
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::'''A deity with the pure divine eye'''
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::'''Would see it there and tell a person:'''
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::'''[There is] gold here, this<ref>With Schmithausen, I follow MA ''suvarṇam asminn idam agraratnam'' (supported by DP '' ’di na yod pa’i gser / rin chen mchog ’di'') against ''suvarṇam asmin navam agraratnam'' in J and MB.</ref> highest precious substance.'''
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::'''You should purify it, and make use of this precious substance."''' I.109
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{D107b} {J63}
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::'''Similarly, the sage beholds the qualities of sentient beings''',
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::'''Sunken into the afflictions that are like excrement,'''
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::'''And thus showers down the rain of the dharma onto beings'''
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::'''In order to purify them of the afflictions’ dirt.''' I.110
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::'''Just as a deity seeing a [piece of] gold fallen into a filthy place full of excrement'''
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::'''Would show its supreme beauty to people in order to purify it from stains,'''
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::'''So the victor, beholding the jewel of a perfect buddha fallen into the great excrement of the afflictions'''
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::'''In sentient beings, teaches the dharma to these beings for the sake of purifying that [buddha]. I.111'''
 
|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>
 
:Just as a god, seeing gold falling into a pit of impurities,
 
:Just as a god, seeing gold falling into a pit of impurities,

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.111

Verse I.111 Variations

यद्वत् संकरपूतिधानपतितं चामीकरं देवता
दृष्ट्वा दृश्यतमं नृणामुपदिशेत् संशोधनार्थं मलात्
तद्वत् क्लेशमहाशुचिप्रपतितं संबुद्धरत्नं जिनः
सत्त्वेषु व्यवलोक्य धर्ममदिश[त्त]च्छुद्धये देहिनाम्
yadvat saṃkarapūtidhānapatitaṃ cāmīkaraṃ devatā
dṛṣṭvā dṛśyatamaṃ nṛṇāmupadiśet saṃśodhanārthaṃ malāt
tadvat kleśamahāśuciprapatitaṃ saṃbuddharatnaṃ jinaḥ
sattveṣu vyavalokya dharmamadiśa[tta]cchuddhaye dehinām
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།ཇི་ལྟར་ལྗན་ལྗིན་རུལ་པའི་གནས་སུ་ལྷུང་བའི་གསེར་ནི་ལྷ་ཡིས་མཐོང་གྱུར་ནས།
།ཀུན་ཏུ་དག་པར་བྱ་ཕྱིར་མཆོག་ཏུ་མཛེས་པ་མི་ལ་ནན་གྱིས་སྟོན་པ་ལྟར།
།དེ་བཞིན་རྒྱལ་བས་ཉོན་མོངས་མི་གཙང་ཆེན་པོར་ལྷུང་གྱུར་རྫོགས་སངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།
།སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས་ལ་གཟིགས་ནས་དེ་དག་བྱ་ཕྱིར་ལུས་ཅན་རྣམས་ལ་ཆོས་སྟོན་ཏོ།
Dege, PHI, 118
Just as a deity seeing a [piece of] gold fallen into a filthy place full of excrement
Would show its supreme beauty to people in order to purify it from stains,
So the victor, beholding the jewel of a perfect buddha fallen into the great excrement of the afflictions
In sentient beings, teaches the dharma to these beings for the sake of purifying that [buddha].
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 396 [2]
Le dieu qui a décelé l’or tombé dans les immondices
en montre avec insistance
La sublime beauté à un être humain pour qu’il le nettoie parfaitement.
De même, voyant en chaque être le joyau de la bouddhéité parfaite
tombé dans les grandes immondices des affections,
Le Vainqueur enseigne le Dharma aux êtres
pour qu’ils purifient cette [quintessence].
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ནི་མི་གཙང་བའི་ལྗན་ལྗིན་གྱི་གནས་དང་འདྲ་ལ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་ཁམས་ནི་གསེར་བཞིན་ཏེ། ཇི་ལྟར་རབ་ཏུ་རྒྱུ་ཚེ་མི་ཡི་གསེར། །ལྗན་ལྗིན་{br}རུལ་པའི་གནས་སུ་ལྷུང་གྱུར་ལ། །མི་འཇིག་ཆོས་ཅན་དེ་ནི་དེར་དེ་བཞིན། །ལོ་བརྒྱ་མང་པོ་དག་ཏུ་གནས་པ་དེ། །ལྷ་མིག་རྣམ་པར་དག་ལྡན་ལྷ་ཡིས་དེར། །མཐོང་ནས་མི་ལ་འདི་ན་ཡོད་པའི་གསེར། །རིན་ཆེན་མཆོག་འདི་སྦྱངས་ཏེ་རིན་ཆེན་གྱིས། །བསྒྲུབ་པར་བྱ་བ་གྱིས་ཞེས་སྨྲ་བ་
ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་ཐུབ་པས་མི་གཙང་དང་འདྲ་བའི། །ཉོན་མོངས་སུ་བྱིང་སེམས་ཅན་ཡོན་ཏན་ནི། །གཟིགས་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་འདམ་དེ་དག་བྱའི་ཕྱིར། །སྐྱེ་དགུ་རྣམས་ལ་དམ་ཆོས་ཆུ་ཆར་འབེབས། །ཇི་ལྟར་ལྗན་ལྗིན་རུལ་པའི་ནང་དུ་ལྷུང་བའི་གསེར་ནི་ལྷ་ཡིས་མཐོང་གྱུར་ནས། །ཀུན་{br}ཏུ་དགའ་བར་བྱ་ཕྱིར་མཆོག་ཏུ་མཛེས་པ་མི་ལ་ནན་གྱིས་སྟོན་པ་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་རྒྱལ་བས་ཉོན་མོངས་མི་གཙང་ཆེན་པོར་ལྷུང་གྱུར་རྫོགས་སངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། །སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས་ལ་གཟིགས་ནས་དེ་དག་བྱ་ཕྱིར་ལུས་ཅན་རྣམས་ལ་ཆོས་སྟོན་ཏོ།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [4]
Just as a god, seeing gold falling into a pit of impurities,
Would zealously show it to men in its beautiful nature in order to gladden them,
In a like way the Lord sees in the living beings
The jewel of the Supreme Buddha fallen amidst the great impurities of the passions，
And shows the Doctrine in order to purify it.
Takasaki (1966) [5]
Just as a god, perceiving a piece of gold, the most beautiful one,
Fallen into a dirty place filled with impurities,
Would show it to the people in order to purify it from dirt;
In the same way, the Buddha, perceiving the treasure of the Buddha in the living beings
Which is fallen into a big pit of impurities of defilements,
Teaches the Doctrine to the living beings in order to purify the treasure.
Fuchs (2000) [6]
Once the god has seen the gold that has fallen into the place full of rotting refuse,
insistently he directs the man's attention to this supremely beautiful
thing so he may completely cleanse it.
Seeing within all beings the precious perfect buddha that has fallen
into the great filth of the mental poisons,
the Victorious One does likewise and teaches the Dharma to persuade them to purify it.

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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. With Schmithausen, I follow MA suvarṇam asminn idam agraratnam (supported by DP ’di na yod pa’i gser / rin chen mchog ’di) against suvarṇam asmin navam agraratnam in J and MB.
  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.

kleśa - Often referred to as poisons, these are a class of disturbing or disruptive emotional states that when aroused negatively affect or taint the mind. Skt. क्लेश Tib. ཉོན་མོངས་ Ch. 煩惱

āvaraṇa - Literally, that which obscures or conceals. Often listed as a set of two obscurations (sgrib gnyis): the afflictive emotional obscurations (Skt. kleśāvaraṇa, Tib. nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa) and the cognitive obscurations (Skt. jñeyāvaraṇa, Tib. shes bya'i sgrib pa). By removing the first, one becomes free of suffering, and by removing the second, one becomes omniscient. Skt. आवरण Tib. སྒྲིབ་པ་

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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