Verse IV.38

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That the [Buddha] pervades all worldly realms in the ten directions without exception through assuming various physical forms indicates "the miraculous display of miraculous powers." (D124b) That he illuminates the impenetrable mental conduct of all the sentient beings who belong to these [worlds]<ref>I follow MB ''tatparyāpannasarvasattva''° against J ''tatparyāpannaṃ sarvasattva''° (DP ''de rtogs'' is a misspelling of ''de gtogs'').</ref> through his wisdom of [knowing all] ways of the mind is "the miraculous display of pointing out." That he gives instructions and directions about the path that is conducive to deliverance through the utterances of his voice is "the miraculous display of advice."
 
That the [Buddha] pervades all worldly realms in the ten directions without exception through assuming various physical forms indicates "the miraculous display of miraculous powers." (D124b) That he illuminates the impenetrable mental conduct of all the sentient beings who belong to these [worlds]<ref>I follow MB ''tatparyāpannasarvasattva''° against J ''tatparyāpannaṃ sarvasattva''° (DP ''de rtogs'' is a misspelling of ''de gtogs'').</ref> through his wisdom of [knowing all] ways of the mind is "the miraculous display of pointing out." That he gives instructions and directions about the path that is conducive to deliverance through the utterances of his voice is "the miraculous display of advice."
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|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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:In the region of the gods, the celestial music,
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:Of which there are many millions of forms,
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:Sounds only in order to kindle the flames of desire,
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:But the unique voice of those
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:Whose essence is Highest Mercy
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:Sounds in order to calm the fire of suffering.
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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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:In heaven, the divine cymbals of a million kinds
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:Sound only in order to kindle the flame of desire,
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:But one voice of those full of Compassion
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:Sounds in order to extinguish the cause of the fire of suffering.
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<h6>Fuchs (2000) <ref>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.</ref></h6>
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:Millions of divine cymbals resound among the gods
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:to set the fire of lust ablaze and to fan its flames.
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:The single melody of Those of Compassionate Being
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:manifests to fully quench all the fires of suffering.
 
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Revision as of 10:56, 19 February 2020

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.38

Verse IV.38 Variations

बह्व्यो ऽमराणां दिवि तूर्यकोट्यो नदन्ति कामज्वलनाभिवृद्धौ
एकस् तु घोषः करुणात्मकानां दुःखाग्निहेतुप्रशमप्रवृत्तः
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
bahvyo ’marāṇāṃ divi tūryakoṭyo nadanti kāmajvalanābhivṛddhau
ekas tu ghoṣaḥ karuṇātmakānāṃ duḥkhāgnihetupraśamapravṛttaḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
།ལྷར་ནི་ལྷ་ཡི་སིལ་སྙན་བྱེ་བ་མང་།
།འདོད་མེ་མངོན་པར་འཕེལ་བའི་དོན་དུ་སྒྲོག
།ཐུགས་རྗེའི་བདག་ཉིད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་དབྱངས་གཅིག་ཀྱང་།
།སྡུག་བསྔལ་མེ་རབ་ཞི་བའི་དོན་དུ་འཇུག
Dege, PHI, 137
In heaven, the many myriads of divine cymbals
Sound [only] for the sake of kindling the flame of desire,
But the single voice of those whose character is compassion
Manifests for the sake of pacifying the cause of the fire of suffering.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 443 [3]
Dans le monde des dieux, les cymbales sonnent
Par millions pour exacerber les flammes du désir.
Les incarnations de la compassion n’ont qu’une seule voix
Qui fait tout pour éteindre à jamais les flammes de la souffrance.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

RGVV Commentary on Verse IV.38

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།རྣམ་པ་བཞི་པོ་འདི་དག་གིས་ངེས་པར་བསྟན་པ་ནི། མདོར་བསྡུ་ན་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་བཞིས་གྲངས་ཇི་ལྟ་བ་བཞིན་དུ་རིག་པར་བྱ་སྟེ། {br}ལྷར་ནི་རྔ་ཡི་སྒྲ་ཆེན་པོ། །སར་གནས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་རྣར་མི་འགྲོ། །སངས་རྒྱས་རྔ་སྒྲ་འཁོར་བ་ཡི། །ས་འོག་འཇིག་རྟེན་དག་ཏུ་འགྲོ། །ལྷར་ནི་ལྷ་ཡི་སིལ་སྙན་བྱེ་བ་མང་། །འདོད་མེ་མངོན་པར་འཕེལ་བའི་དོན་དུ་སྒྲོགས། །ཐུགས་རྗེའི་བདག་ཉིད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་དབྱངས་གཅིག་ཀྱང་། །སྡུག་བསྔལ་{br}མི་རབ་ཞི་བའི་དོན་དུ་འཇུག །ལྷར་ནི་མཛེས་ཤིང་ཡིད་འོང་སིལ་སྙན་སྒྲ། །སེམས་ཀྱི་རྒོད་པ་འཕེལ་བར་གྱུར་པའི་རྒྱུ། །ཐུགས་རྗེའི་བདག་ཉིད་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་གསུང་། །ཏིང་འཛིན་སེམས་གཏོང་བསམ་པ་སྐུལ་བྱེད་ཉིད། །མདོར་ན་མ་ལུས་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཁམས་རྣམས་{br}སུའང་། །ལྷ་དང་ས་ཡི་བདེ་བའི་རྒྱུ་གང་ཡིན། །དེ་ནི་མ་ལུས་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཁྱབ་སྣང་བ། །དབྱངས་ཉིད་ལ་ནི་རབ་ཏུ་བརྟེན་པར་བརྗོད།།ལུས་ཀྱི་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་གྱིས་ཕྱོགས་བཅུའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་མ་ལུས་པར་ཁྱབ་པས་ནི། རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་གྱི་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་ཞེས་བསྟན་ཏོ། །སེམས་ཀྱི་
རྣམ་གྲངས་མཁྱེན་པས་དེ་རྟོགས་པ་སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་སེམས་ཀྱི་སྤྱོད་པ་ཟབ་མོ་སྣང་བ་ནི་ཀུན་བརྗོད་པའི་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་ལོ།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [8]
In the region of the gods, the celestial music,
Of which there are many millions of forms,
Sounds only in order to kindle the flames of desire,
But the unique voice of those
Whose essence is Highest Mercy
Sounds in order to calm the fire of suffering.
Takasaki (1966) [9]
In heaven, the divine cymbals of a million kinds
Sound only in order to kindle the flame of desire,
But one voice of those full of Compassion
Sounds in order to extinguish the cause of the fire of suffering.
Fuchs (2000) [10]
Millions of divine cymbals resound among the gods
to set the fire of lust ablaze and to fan its flames.
The single melody of Those of Compassionate Being
manifests to fully quench all the fires of suffering.

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Commentaries on this verse[edit]

Academic notes[edit]

  1. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  2. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  3. 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.
  4. I follow Takasaki’s emendation of MB saṃbuddhabhūmer upayāti to saṃbuddhabherer upayāti (supported by the context and DP snags rgyas rnga sera). J saṃbuddhatūryasya tu yāti makes no sense here.
  5. I follow Schmithausen’s reading of MB saṃsārapātālagate tu against J saṃsārapātālagateṣu.
  6. With de Jong, I follow DP ting ’dzin sems gtod bsam pa skul byed nyid, thus emending °bhāvavācakam to °bhāvacodakam.
  7. I follow MB tatparyāpannasarvasattva° against J tatparyāpannaṃ sarvasattva° (DP de rtogs is a misspelling of de gtogs).
  8. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  9. 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.
  10. 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

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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