Verse II.36
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|VariationTrans=It is everywhere without obstruction<br>Because it is pure of all cognitive obscurations.<br>It is free from harsh sensations<br>Since it is a state of gentleness and workability. | |VariationTrans=It is everywhere without obstruction<br>Because it is pure of all cognitive obscurations.<br>It is free from harsh sensations<br>Since it is a state of gentleness and workability. | ||
|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 422 <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]], 422 <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=Here, the meaning of this verse is to be understood in brief through the [following] eight verses. | ||
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| + | ::'''One’s own welfare and that of others is taught''' | ||
| + | ::'''Through the vimukti[kāya] and the dharmakāya.''' | ||
| + | ::'''This foundation of one’s own welfare and that of others''' | ||
| + | ::'''Is endowed with the qualities such as being inconceivable'''. II.30 | ||
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| + | ::'''Buddhahood is the object of omniscient wisdom [alone]'''. | ||
| + | ::'''Since it is not the object of the three wisdoms''', | ||
| + | ::'''It is to be understood as being inconceivable''' | ||
| + | ::'''[Even] by people with wisdom.'''<ref>VT (fol. 14r6) glosses "the three wisdoms" as "those of study, reflection, and meditation" and "people with wisdom" as "śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas."</ref> II.31 | ||
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| + | ::'''Since it is subtle, it is not an object of study'''. | ||
| + | ::'''Since it is the ultimate, it is not [an object] of reflection'''. | ||
| + | ::'''Since it is the depth of the nature of phenomena''', | ||
| + | ::'''It is not [an object] of worldly meditation and so forth'''. II.32 | ||
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| + | ::'''For naive beings have never seen it before''', | ||
| + | ::'''Just as those born blind [have never seen] form'''. | ||
| + | ::'''Even noble ones [see it only] as an infant [would glimpse]''' | ||
| + | ::'''The orb of the sun while lying in the house<ref>VT (fol. 14r7) glosses °''madhya''° as °''sthāna''°, while Takasaki suggests the reading °''sudma''° instead of °''madhya''° (DP ''khyim''). </ref> of a new mother.''' II.33 | ||
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| + | ::'''It is permanent because it is free from arising'''. | ||
| + | ::'''It is everlasting since it is free from ceasing.''' | ||
| + | ::'''It is quiescent because it is without duality.''' | ||
| + | ::'''It is eternal since the nature of phenomena [always] remains'''. II.34 (J85) | ||
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| + | ::'''It is peaceful because it is the reality of cessation.''' | ||
| + | ::'''It is all-pervasive since it realizes everything'''. | ||
| + | ::'''It is nonconceptual because it is nonabiding'''. | ||
| + | ::'''It is without attachment since the afflictions are relinquished'''. II.35 | ||
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| + | ::'''It is everywhere without obstruction''' | ||
| + | ::'''Because it is pure of all cognitive obscurations'''. | ||
| + | ::'''It is free from harsh sensations''' | ||
| + | ::'''Since it is a state of gentleness and workability'''.<ref>Skt. ''mṛdukarmaṇyabhāvāt''. DP read "since it is nondual and workable" (''gnyis med las su rung ba’i phyir''). </ref> II.36 | ||
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| + | ::'''It is invisible because it has no form'''. (D118a) | ||
| + | ::'''It is ungraspable since it has no characteristics'''. | ||
| + | ::'''It is splendid because it is pure by nature'''. | ||
| + | ::'''It is stainless because the stains are eliminated'''. II.37 | ||
| + | |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> | ||
| + | :Through the complete removal of the Obscuration of Ignorance, | ||
| + | :It is free from impediments regarding everything (cognizable), | ||
| + | :And devoid of both (languor and distraction), and duly purified, | ||
| + | :It is free from every rough sensation. | ||
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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> | ||
| + | :Being purified from all the obstructions of Ignorance, | ||
| + | :It 'has no hindrance' in regard to everything [knowable]; | ||
| + | :Being of soft and light-moving nature, | ||
| + | :It is 'devoid of rough sensation'. | ||
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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> | ||
| + | :Since the veil of the hindrances to knowledge is cleansed, | ||
| + | :it is in all ways unobstructed [with regard to complete insight]. | ||
| + | :Being free from its two [obstacles], it is suited for [samadhi] | ||
| + | :and thus relieved from the touch of coarse objects of contact. | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:05, 18 August 2020
Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse II.36
Verse II.36 Variations
सर्वत्राप्रतिघं सर्वज्ञेयावरणशुद्धितः
परुषस्पर्शनिर्मुक्तं मृदुकर्मण्यभावतः
परुषस्पर्शनिर्मुक्तं मृदुकर्मण्यभावतः
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
sarvatrāpratighaṃ sarvajñeyāvaraṇaśuddhitaḥ
paruṣasparśanirmuktaṃ mṛdukarmaṇyabhāvataḥ
paruṣasparśanirmuktaṃ mṛdukarmaṇyabhāvataḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
ཤེས་བྱའི་སྒྲིབ་ཀུན་དག་པའི་ཕྱིར། །
ཐམས་ཅད་དུ་ནི་ཐོགས་པ་མེད། །
གཉིས་མེད་ལས་སུ་རུང་བའི་ཕྱིར། །
རྩུབ་པའི་རེག་དང་བྲལ་བ་ཡིན། །
ཐམས་ཅད་དུ་ནི་ཐོགས་པ་མེད། །
གཉིས་མེད་ལས་སུ་རུང་བའི་ཕྱིར། །
རྩུབ་པའི་རེག་དང་བྲལ་བ་ཡིན། །
It is everywhere without obstruction
Because it is pure of all cognitive obscurations.
It is free from harsh sensations
Since it is a state of gentleness and workability.
Because it is pure of all cognitive obscurations.
It is free from harsh sensations
Since it is a state of gentleness and workability.
- Il est totalement pur du voile cognitif
- Et rien ne peut lui faire obstacle.
- Libre du double [obstacle] et infiniment souple,
- Il n’a plus de contacts grossiers.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
RGVV Commentary on Verse II.36
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།ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་འདིའི་དོན་ནི་{br}མདོར་བསྡུ་ན་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་བརྒྱད་ཀྱིས་རིག་པར་བྱ་སྟེ། རྣམ་གྲོལ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་དག་གིས། །རང་དང་གཞན་གྱི་དོན་བསྟན་ཏེ། །རང་གཞན་དོན་རྟེན་དེ་ལ་ནི། །བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་སོགས་ཡོན་ཏན་ལྡན། །ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཡུལ། །སངས་རྒྱས་ཤེས་གསུམ་ཡུལ་མིན་ཕྱིར། །{br}ཡེ་ཤེས་ལུས་ཅན་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ནི། །བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་པར་རྟོགས་པར་བྱ། །ཕྲ་ཕྱིར་ཐོས་པའི་ཡུལ་མིན་ཏེ། །དོན་དམ་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་བསམ་བྱའི་མིན། །ཆོས་ཉིད་ཟབ་ཕྱིར་འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི། །སྒོམ་པ་ལ་སོགས་ཡུལ་མ་ཡིན། །གང་ཕྱིར་གཟུགས་ལ་དམུས་ལོང་བཞིན། །བྱིས་པས་དེ་སྔོན་མཐོང་མ་མྱོང་། །{br}བཙས་པའི་ཁྱིམ་ནས་བུ་ཆུང་གིས། །ཉི་མའི་གཟུགས་བཞིན་འཕགས་པས་ཀྱང་། །སྐྱེ་དང་བྲལ་ཞིང་རྟག་པ་སྟེ། །འགག་པ་མེད་ཕྱིར་བརྟན་པ་ཡིན། །གཉིས་མེད་ཕྱིར་ན་ཞི་བ་སྟེ། །གཡུང་དྲུང་ཆོས་ཉིད་གནས་ཕྱིར་རོ། །རབ་ཞི་འགོག་པའི་བདེན་པའི་ཕྱིར། །ཐམས་ཅད་རྟོགས་ཕྱིར་ཁྱབ་པ་{br}ཉིད། །གནས་པ་མེད་ཕྱིར་རྟོག་མེད་དེ། །ཉོན་མོངས་སྤངས་ཕྱིར་ཆགས་པ་མེད། །ཤེས་བྱའི་སྒྲིབ་ཀུན་དག་བྱའི་ཕྱིར། །ཐམས་ཅད་དུ་ནི་ཐོགས་པ་མེད། །གཉིས་མེད་ལས་སུ་རུང་བའི་ཕྱིར། །རྩུབ་པའི་རེག་དང་བྲལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །དེ་གཟུགས་མེད་ཅིང་བལྟར་མེད་དེ། །མཚན་མ་
མེད་ཕྱིར་གཟུང་དུ་མེད། །དགེ་བའི་རང་བཞིན་དག་པའི་ཕྱིར། །དྲི་མེད་དྲི་མ་སྤངས་ཕྱིར་རོ།
Other English translations[edit]
Obermiller (1931) [7]
- Through the complete removal of the Obscuration of Ignorance,
- It is free from impediments regarding everything (cognizable),
- And devoid of both (languor and distraction), and duly purified,
- It is free from every rough sensation.
Takasaki (1966) [8]
- Being purified from all the obstructions of Ignorance,
- It 'has no hindrance' in regard to everything [knowable];
- Being of soft and light-moving nature,
- It is 'devoid of rough sensation'.
Fuchs (2000) [9]
- Since the veil of the hindrances to knowledge is cleansed,
- it is in all ways unobstructed [with regard to complete insight].
- Being free from its two [obstacles], it is suited for [samadhi]
- and thus relieved from the touch of coarse objects of contact.
Textual sources[edit]
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Academic notes[edit]
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- 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.
- VT (fol. 14r6) glosses "the three wisdoms" as "those of study, reflection, and meditation" and "people with wisdom" as "śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas."
- VT (fol. 14r7) glosses °madhya° as °sthāna°, while Takasaki suggests the reading °sudma° instead of °madhya° (DP khyim).
- Skt. mṛdukarmaṇyabhāvāt. DP read "since it is nondual and workable" (gnyis med las su rung ba’i phyir).
- Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
- 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.
- 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.
