Verse II.68

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|VariationOriginal=དང་པོ་ཡི་ནི་རྒྱུ་བདུན་གྱིས། །<br>གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཡི་རྟག་ཉིད་དེ། །<br>ཕྱི་མ་གསུམ་གྱིས་སྟོན་པ་ནི། །<br>ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཡི་རྟག་པ་ཉིད། །
 
|VariationOriginalSource=[https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/kdbs/degetengyur/pbs/2916185 Dege, PHI, 129]
 
|VariationOriginalSource=[https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/kdbs/degetengyur/pbs/2916185 Dege, PHI, 129]
 
|VariationTrans=The first seven reasons [show]<br>The permanence of the teacher in terms of the rūpakāyas,<br>And the latter three [demonstrate]<br>His permanence in terms of the dharmakāya.
 
|VariationTrans=The first seven reasons [show]<br>The permanence of the teacher in terms of the rūpakāyas,<br>And the latter three [demonstrate]<br>His permanence in terms of the dharmakāya.
 
|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 427 <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]], 427 <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=The summarized meaning of this is to be understood through [the following] six verses.<ref>As will be seen in the text below, in verses II.63–68, two lines each correspond to the ten reasons in II.62 for buddhahood’s being permanent, with "protector of the world"in II.62d (VT fol. 14v6: ''lokanāthatvāt'') being considered the tenth reason.</ref>
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::'''By virtue of having upheld the genuine dharma'''
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::'''Through giving up body, life, and possessions''',
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::'''By virtue of fulfilling the initial commitment'''
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::'''In order to benefit all sentient beings and so on''', II.63
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::'''By virtue of completely pure compassion'''
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::'''Manifesting in buddhahood''',
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::'''By virtue of the one who displays<ref>I follow MB °''pādapraṇetuś ca'' against J ''pādaprakāśāc ca''.</ref> the limbs of miraculous power'''
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::'''Being able to remain [in the world]<ref>The phrase in "[ ]" is found in C. </ref> through them''', II.64
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::'''By virtue of being liberated through wisdom from grasping
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::'''At [saṃsāric] existence and nirvāṇa as being two,
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::'''By virtue of always being endowed with the fulfillment
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::'''Of the bliss of inconceivable samādhi, II.65
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::'''By virtue of being untainted by worldly dharmas'''
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::'''While acting in the world''',
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::'''By virtue of the māra of death not stirring'''
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::'''Within the attainment of the state of immortality and peace''', II.66
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::'''By virtue of the sage, whose nature'''
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::'''Is unconditioned, being primordially at peace''',
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::'''And by virtue of being tenable as the refuge and so on'''<ref>I follow VT (fol. 14v6) °''śaraṇādyutpattitaḥ'' against MB and J °''śaraṇābhyupapattitaḥ'' (confirmed by DP ''skyabs la sogs pa ’thad phyir ro''). VT furthermore glosses "refuge" as "dharmakāya, sambhogakāya, nirmāṇakāya."</ref>
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::'''Of those without refuge, [the Buddha] is permanent'''.<ref>. I follow MB ''nityatāśaraṇānāṃ'' (confirmed by VT, fol. 14v6) against J ''nityam aśaraṇānāṃ''. </ref> II.67 P124b)
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::'''The first seven reasons [show]'''
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::'''The permanence of the teacher in terms of the rūpakāyas''', (D119b)
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::'''And the latter three [demonstrate]'''
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::'''His permanence in terms of the dharmakāya'''. II.68
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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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:The first 7 of these motives show
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:The eternal character of the corporeal forms,
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:And subsequent 3 demonstrate
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:The Eternity of the Cosmical Body.
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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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:The first 7 of these motives show
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:The eternity of the Preceptor in his Apparitional Body,
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:The latter 3 demonstrate the eternity
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:From the viewpoint of the Absolute Body.
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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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:The first seven reasons clarify
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:the permanence of the form kayas,
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:while the latter three illustrate
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:why the dharmakaya lasts forever.
 
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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse II.68

Verse II.68 Variations

सप्तभिः कारणैराद्यैर्नित्यता रूपकायतः
पश्चिमैश्च त्रिभिः शास्तुर्नित्यता धर्मकायतः
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
saptabhiḥ kāraṇairādyairnityatā rūpakāyataḥ
paścimaiśca tribhiḥ śāsturnityatā dharmakāyataḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
དང་པོ་ཡི་ནི་རྒྱུ་བདུན་གྱིས། །
གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཡི་རྟག་ཉིད་དེ། །
ཕྱི་མ་གསུམ་གྱིས་སྟོན་པ་ནི། །
ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཡི་རྟག་པ་ཉིད། །
Dege, PHI, 129
The first seven reasons [show]
The permanence of the teacher in terms of the rūpakāyas,
And the latter three [demonstrate]
His permanence in terms of the dharmakāya.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 427 [3]
Les sept premières raisons
Valent pour la permanence des corps formels
De notre Instructeur ; les trois dernières,
Pour la permanence de son corps absolu.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

RGVV Commentary on Verse II.68

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།འདིའི་བསྡུས་པའི་དོན་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་དྲུག་{br}གིས་རིག་པར་བྱ་སྟེ། ལུས་དང་སྲོག་དང་འོངས་སྤྱོད་རྣམས། །བཏང་ནས་དམ་ཆོས་འཛིན་ཕྱིར་དང་། །སེམས་ཅན་ཀུན་ལ་ཕན་པའི་ཕྱིར། །དང་པོའི་དམ་བཅས་མཐར་འབྱིན་ཕྱིར། །སངས་རྒྱས་ཉིད་ནི་གཙང་བ་དང་། །དག་པའི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་རབ་འཇུག་ཕྱིར། །རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་རྐང་{br}པ་སྟོན་པ་ནི། །དེ་ཡིས་གནས་པར་སྤྱོད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །མཁྱེན་པས་འཁོར་དང་མྱ་ངན་འདའ། །གཉིས་སུ་འཛིན་པས་གྲོལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །རྟག་ཏུ་བསམ་ཡས་ཏིང་འཛིན་གྱི། །བདེ་བ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་ལྡན་ཕྱིར། །འཇིག་རྟེན་ནི་སྤྱོད་པ་ན། འཇིག་རྟེན་ཆོས་ཀྱིས་གོས་མེད་ཕྱིར། །{br}འཆི་མེད་ཞི་བའི་གནས་ཐོབ་པ། །འཆི་བདུད་རྒྱུ་བ་མེད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །འདུས་མ་བྱས་པའི་རང་བཞིན་གྱི། །ཐུབ་པ་གདོད་ནས་རབ་ཞིའི་ཕྱིར། །རྟག་པ་སྐྱབས་མེད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ནི། །སྐྱབས་ལ་སོགས་པ་འཐད་ཕྱིར་རོ། །དང་པོ་ཡི་ནི་རྒྱུ་བདུན་ནི། །གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཡི་རྟག་
ཉིད་དེ། །ཕྱི་མ་གསུམ་གྱིས་སྟོང་པ་ན། །ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཡི་རྟག་པ་ཉིད།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [9]
The first 7 of these motives show
The eternal character of the corporeal forms,
And subsequent 3 demonstrate
The Eternity of the Cosmical Body.
Takasaki (1966) [10]
The first 7 of these motives show
The eternity of the Preceptor in his Apparitional Body,
The latter 3 demonstrate the eternity
From the viewpoint of the Absolute Body.
Fuchs (2000) [11]
The first seven reasons clarify
the permanence of the form kayas,
while the latter three illustrate
why the dharmakaya lasts forever.

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  1. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
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  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. As will be seen in the text below, in verses II.63–68, two lines each correspond to the ten reasons in II.62 for buddhahood’s being permanent, with "protector of the world"in II.62d (VT fol. 14v6: lokanāthatvāt) being considered the tenth reason.
  5. I follow MB °pādapraṇetuś ca against J pādaprakāśāc ca.
  6. The phrase in "[ ]" is found in C.
  7. I follow VT (fol. 14v6) °śaraṇādyutpattitaḥ against MB and J °śaraṇābhyupapattitaḥ (confirmed by DP skyabs la sogs pa ’thad phyir ro). VT furthermore glosses "refuge" as "dharmakāya, sambhogakāya, nirmāṇakāya."
  8. . I follow MB nityatāśaraṇānāṃ (confirmed by VT, fol. 14v6) against J nityam aśaraṇānāṃ.
  9. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
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