Verse III.13

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|VariationOriginalSource=[https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/kdbs/degetengyur/pbs/2916187 Dege, PHI, 131]
 
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|VariationTrans=His actions are preceded by wisdom,<br>And his wisdom in the three times is unobscured.<br>These eighteen are the guru’s qualities<br>That are unique compared to others.
 
|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 431 <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=[There follow five verses about] the statement that [the Buddha] is endowed with the eighteen unique buddha attributes.
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::'''The teacher is without mistakenness and chatter''',
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::'''Is never bereft of mindfulness''',
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::'''Lacks a mind not resting in meditative equipoise''',
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::'''Is free from notions of diversity''', III.11
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::'''Lacks indifference without examination''',
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::'''His striving, vigor, mindfulness''',
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::'''Prajñā, liberation,<ref>VT (fol. 15v5) glosses "without examination" as "ignorance" and "liberation" as "liberation from the afflictions."</ref> and vision'''
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::'''Of the wisdom of liberation never deteriorate''', III.12
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::'''His actions<ref>VT (fol. 15v5–6) glosses "actions" as those of body, speech, and mind. </ref> are preceded by wisdom''',
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::'''And his wisdom in the three times is unobscured'''.
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::'''These eighteen are the guru’s qualities'''
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::'''That are unique compared to others'''.<ref>VT (fol. 15v6) glosses "others" as love and so on."</ref> III.13
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::'''The seer lacks mistakenness, chatter, mindlessness, mental agitation''',<ref>Against J citte na saṃbhedataḥ, I follow VT (fol. 15v6) ''citteṅkhanaṃ bhedataḥ'' (corresponding to DP ''thugs g.yo tha dad''), which is glossed as "unsteadiness of mind, meaning the mind that is not in meditative equipoise." Schmithausen suggests ''cittehitaṃ bhedataḥ'' [MB °''taṃ'' is clear, while the preceding akṣara is illegible], which is similar in meaning.</ref>
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::'''Notions of difference, and natural indifference, while there is never any deterioration''
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::'''Of his striving, vigor, mindfulness, pure stainless prajñā and liberation''',
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::'''And vision of the wisdom of liberation (seeing all objects to be known)'''.<ref>DP omit "vision" (°''nidarśanāc'') and say "the wisdom of liberation that sees all objects to be known" (''shes bya’i don kun gzigs pa’i grol ba’i ye shes'').</ref> III.14
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::'''He engages in the three actions with regard to objects<ref>DP ''gang gi/gis (yasya/yena)'' instead of ''artheṣu''.</ref> that are preceded by omniscience''',
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::'''And the operation of his vast wisdom is always unobstructed with regard to the three times.''' (J94)
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::'''Thus is this state of the victor, which is endowed with great compassion and realized by the victors.'''
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::'''By virtue of this realization, he fearlessly turns the great wheel of the genuine dharma in the world.'''<ref>For the individual causes of the eighteen unique qualities according to the ''Ratnadārikāsūtra'', see the note on III.11–15 in CMW.</ref> III.15
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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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:His acts preceded by Divine Wisdom,
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:His unimpeded knowledge regarding time,
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:These 18 are the properties of the Teacher
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:Which have nothing in common with anyone else.
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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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:Has [three kinds of] acts are preceded by Wisdom,
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:And his Intuition acts unimpededly in three states of time;
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:These 18 and others are the Properties
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:Of the Preceptor, which are not common to others.
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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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:All action is preceded by primordial wisdom
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:and this is unobscured with regard to time.
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:Thus these eighteen features and others
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:are the unmixed qualities of the Teacher.
 
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Latest revision as of 12:19, 18 August 2020

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse III.13

Verse III.13 Variations

ज्ञानपूर्वंगमं कर्म त्र्यध्वज्ञानमनावृतम्
इत्येतेऽष्टादशान्ये च गुरोरावेणिका गुणाः
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
jñānapūrvaṃgamaṃ karma tryadhvajñānamanāvṛtam
ityete'ṣṭādaśānye ca gurorāveṇikā guṇāḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
ལས་རྣམས་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྔོན་འགྲོ་དང་། །
དུས་ལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྒྲིབ་པ་མེད། །
དེ་ལྟར་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་འདི་དང་གཞན། །
སྟོན་པའི་མ་འདྲེས་ཡོན་ཏན་ཡིན། །
His actions are preceded by wisdom,
And his wisdom in the three times is unobscured.
These eighteen are the guru’s qualities
That are unique compared to others.
Ses actes procèdent de la sagesse
Libre des voiles temporels.
Telles sont, entre autres, dix-huit
Qualités exclusives de notre Instructeur.

RGVV Commentary on Verse III.13

།སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་མ་འདྲེས་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། འཁྲུལ་དང་ཅ་ཅོ་མི་མངའ་སྟེ། །སྟོན་ལ་དྲན་པ་ཉམས་མི་མངའ། །མཉམ་པར་མ་བཞག་ཐུགས་མི་མངའ། །འདུ་ཤེས་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཀྱང་མི་མངའ། །མ་བརྟགས་{br}བཏང་སྙོམས་མི་མངའ་སྟེ། །འདུན་པ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་དྲན་པ་དང་། །ཤེས་རབ་རྣམ་གྲོལ་རྣམ་གྲོལ་གྱི། །ཡེ་ཤེས་གཟིགས་པ་ཉམས་མི་མངའ། །ལས་རྣམས་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྔོན་འགྲོ་དང་། །དུས་ལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྒྲིབ་པ་མེད། །དེ་ལྟར་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་འདི་དང་གཞན། །སྟོན་པའི་མ་{br}འདྲེས་ཡོན་ཏན་ཡིན། །འཁྲུལ་དང་ཅ་ཅོ་བསྙེལ་དང་ཐུགས་གཡོ་ཐ་དད་ཀྱི་ནི་འདུ་ཤེས་དང་། །ངང་གིས་བཏང་སྙོམས་དྲང་སྲོང་ལ་མེད་འདུན་པ་དང་ནི་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་དང་། །དྲན་དང་རྣམ་དག་དྲི་མེད་ཤེས་རབ་རྟག་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བ་དང་། །ཤེས་བྱའི་དོན་ཀུན་གཟིགས་པའི་གྲོལ་བའི་{br}ཡེ་ཤེས་ལས་ནི་ཉམས་མི་མངའ། །གང་གི་ལས་གསུམ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྔོན་འགྲོ་རྗེས་སུ་འཇུག་པ་དང་། །དུས་གསུམ་དག་ཏུ་ཐོགས་མེད་ངེས་པ་མཁྱེན་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེ་འཇུག་པ་སྟེ། །གང་རྟོགས་འགྲོ་བར་འཇིགས་མེད་དམ་ཆོས་འཁོར་ལོ་ཆེན་པོ་རབ་བསྐོར་བ། །ཐུགས་{br}རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་ལྡན་རྒྱལ་བ་ཉིད་དེ་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་བརྙེས།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [11]
His acts preceded by Divine Wisdom,
His unimpeded knowledge regarding time,
These 18 are the properties of the Teacher
Which have nothing in common with anyone else.
Takasaki (1966) [12]
Has [three kinds of] acts are preceded by Wisdom,
And his Intuition acts unimpededly in three states of time;
These 18 and others are the Properties
Of the Preceptor, which are not common to others.
Fuchs (2000) [13]
All action is preceded by primordial wisdom
and this is unobscured with regard to time.
Thus these eighteen features and others
are the unmixed qualities of the Teacher.

Textual sources[edit]

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. VT (fol. 15v5) glosses "without examination" as "ignorance" and "liberation" as "liberation from the afflictions."
  5. VT (fol. 15v5–6) glosses "actions" as those of body, speech, and mind.
  6. VT (fol. 15v6) glosses "others" as love and so on."
  7. Against J citte na saṃbhedataḥ, I follow VT (fol. 15v6) citteṅkhanaṃ bhedataḥ (corresponding to DP thugs g.yo tha dad), which is glossed as "unsteadiness of mind, meaning the mind that is not in meditative equipoise." Schmithausen suggests cittehitaṃ bhedataḥ [MB °taṃ is clear, while the preceding akṣara is illegible], which is similar in meaning.
  8. DP omit "vision" (°nidarśanāc) and say "the wisdom of liberation that sees all objects to be known" (shes bya’i don kun gzigs pa’i grol ba’i ye shes).
  9. DP gang gi/gis (yasya/yena) instead of artheṣu.
  10. For the individual causes of the eighteen unique qualities according to the Ratnadārikāsūtra, see the note on III.11–15 in CMW.
  11. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.