Verse IV.12

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|VariationOriginal=གཞན་གྱི་དབང་གིས་ངེས་འབྱུང་དང་། །<br>བདག་དང་སེམས་ཅན་མཚུངས་གཟིགས་དང་། །<br>མཛད་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་མ་རྫོགས་ཕྱིར། །<br>འཁོར་བ་སྲིད་དུ་མཛད་མི་འཆད། །
 
|VariationOriginalSource=[https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/kdbs/degetengyur/pbs/2916190 Dege, PHI, 134]
 
|VariationOriginalSource=[https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/kdbs/degetengyur/pbs/2916190 Dege, PHI, 134]
 
|VariationTrans=Because of [accomplishing] deliverance for the sake of others,<br>Because of regarding sentient beings and oneself as equal,<br>And because of there being no end to what is to be done,<br>[Buddha] activity is uninterrupted as long as [saṃsāric] existence lasts.
 
|VariationTrans=Because of [accomplishing] deliverance for the sake of others,<br>Because of regarding sentient beings and oneself as equal,<br>And because of there being no end to what is to be done,<br>[Buddha] activity is uninterrupted as long as [saṃsāric] existence lasts.
 
|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 439 <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]], 439 <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 these [two verses] is to be understood through [the following] two and eight verses, respectively.
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::'''Since they lack conceptions as to'''
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::'''For whom, whereby, where,'''
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::'''And when which<ref>With Schmithausen, MB is to be read as yā yatra (confirmed by DP ''gang gang du'') instead of J ''yāvac ca'' (''yā'' is also found and explained in IV.4c)</ref> guiding activity [is to be performed]''',
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::'''[The activity] of the sages is always effortless'''. IV.3
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::'''"For whom" [refers to] the constitutions of those to be guided;'''
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::'''"Whereby," to the abundant means;'''
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::'''"Which," to the guiding activity;'''
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::'''And "where and when," to the [proper] place and time for this [activity]'''. IV.4
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::'''For [this activity]<ref>As Schmithausen points out, this verse needs to be connected back to line IV.3d. </ref> lacks conceptions about deliverance''',
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::'''The support of that''',<ref>All the instances of "of that"refer to the phrase that immediately precedes them.</ref> the result of that,
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::'''Taking hold of that, the obscurations of that''',
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::'''And the condition for eliminating them'''. IV.5 (J99)
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::'''"Deliverance" [refers to] the ten bhūmis''';
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::'''"The cause of that," to the two accumulations''';
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::'''"The result of that," to supreme awakening''';
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::'''"Taking hold," to the beings of awakening;'''<ref>Skt. ''bodeḥ sattvaḥ parigrahaḥ''. This refers to bodhisattvas as the ones who take hold of or attain awakening.</ref> IV.6
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::'''"The obscurations of that," to the infinite afflictions''',
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::'''Secondary afflictions, and their latent tendencies;'''
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::'''And "the condition for overcoming them'''
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::'''That is [present] at all times," to compassion'''. IV.7
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::'''These six points, in due order''',
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::'''Are to be understood'''
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::'''As being like the ocean, the sun''',
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::'''The sky, a treasure, clouds, and wind'''. IV.8
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::'''Since it [contains] the water of wisdom (D122b) and the jewels of the qualities''',
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::'''The highest yāna<ref>Both DP and C read "the bhūmis."</ref> resembles the ocean.''' P128a)
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::'''Since they sustain all sentient beings''',
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::'''The two accumulations are like the sun.''' IV.9
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::'''Since it is vast and is without middle and end''',
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::'''Awakening is similar to the element of space'''.
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::'''Since it has the nature of completely perfect buddhahood''',
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::'''The basic element of sentient beings is like a treasure'''. IV.10
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::'''Since they are adventitious, pervasive, and not established''',
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::'''Its afflictions resemble cloud banks'''.
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::'''Since it accomplishes the dispersion of these [clouds]''',
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::'''Compassion is like a strong wind'''. IV.11
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::'''Because of [accomplishing] deliverance for the sake of others''',
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::'''Because of regarding sentient beings and oneself as equal''',
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::'''And because of there being no end to what is to be done''',
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::'''[Buddha] activity is uninterrupted as long as [saṃsāric] existence lasts'''. IV.12
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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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:Performing acts of deliverance for the sake of others,
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:Perceiving the identity of himself and the living beings,
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:And, knowing no termination in his (altruistic) work,
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:The Buddha acts uninterruptedly, as long as the world exists.
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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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:Performing Deliverance for the sake of others,
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:Considering the living beings as one's own self,
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:And having works of no termination, [The Buddha]
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:Acts 'uninterruptedly' as long as the world exists.
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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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:Their release [is accomplished] for the sake of others.
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:They see the equality of themselves and sentient beings
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:and their activity is not completed to its full extent.
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:Thus their deeds will never cease while samsara exists.
 
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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.12

Verse IV.12 Variations

पराधिकारनिर्याणात् सत्त्वात्मसमदर्शनात्
कृत्यापरिसमाप्तेश्च क्रियाप्रश्रब्धिरा भवात्
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
parādhikāraniryāṇāt sattvātmasamadarśanāt
kṛtyāparisamāpteśca kriyāpraśrabdhirā bhavāt
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
གཞན་གྱི་དབང་གིས་ངེས་འབྱུང་དང་། །
བདག་དང་སེམས་ཅན་མཚུངས་གཟིགས་དང་། །
མཛད་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་མ་རྫོགས་ཕྱིར། །
འཁོར་བ་སྲིད་དུ་མཛད་མི་འཆད། །
Dege, PHI, 134
Because of [accomplishing] deliverance for the sake of others,
Because of regarding sentient beings and oneself as equal,
And because of there being no end to what is to be done,
[Buddha] activity is uninterrupted as long as [saṃsāric] existence lasts.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 439 [3]
Les activités ne s’interrompront pas tant que le saṃsāra durera
Parce que les bouddhas se libèrent avec le concours des autres,
Parce qu’ils voient que tous les êtres sont leurs égaux
Et parce que leur œuvre est inachevée.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

RGVV Commentary on Verse IV.12

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།འདི་གཉིས་ཀྱི་བསྡུས་པའི་དོན་ནི། གོ་རིམས་བཞིན་དུ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་གཉིས་{br}དང་བརྒྱད་ཀྱིས་རིག་པར་བྱ་སྟེ། གང་ཞིག་གང་གིས་འདུལ་བ་ཡི། །བྱ་གང་གང་དུ་གང་གི་ཚེ། །དེ་ནི་རྣམ་རྟོག་སྐྱེ་མེད་ཕྱིར། །ཐུབ་པ་རྟག་ཏུ་ལྷུན་གྱིས་གྲུབ། །གདུལ་བྱའི་ཁམས་ནི་གང་ཞིག་གི། །གདུལ་བའི་ཐབས་མང་གང་དག་གིས། །གདུལ་བྱའི་བྱ་གང་གང་དུ་ནི། །གང་ཚེ་ཡུལ་དང་{br}དུས་དེ་དག །ངེས་འབྱིན་དེ་ཡི་རྟོན་པ་དང་། །དེའི་འབྲས་དེ་ཡི་ཡོངས་འཛིན་དང་། །དེ་སྒྲིབ་དེ་གཅོད་རྐྱེན་ལ་ནི། །རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་མེད་ཕྱིར་རོ། །ངེས་པར་འབྱིན་པ་ས་བཅུ་སྟེ། །ཚོགས་གཉིས་དག་ནི་དེ་ཡི་རྒྱུ། །དེ་འབྲས་བྱང་ཆུབ་མཆོག་ཡིན་ཏེ། །བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཅན་ཡོངས་སུ་{br}འཛིན། །དེ་སྒྲིབ་མཐའ་ཡས་ཉོན་མོངས་དང་། །ཉེ་བའི་ཉོན་མོངས་བག་ཆགས་སོ། །དུས་ཀུན་ཏུ་ནི་དེ་འཇོམས་པའི། །རྐྱེན་ནི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡིན། །གནས་དྲུག་འདི་རྣམས་གོ་རིམས་བཞིན། །རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཉི་མ་ནམ་མཁའི་གཏེར། །སྤྲིན་དང་རླུང་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །ཤེས་ཆུ་ཡོན་ཏན་
རིན་ཆེན་དང་། །ལྡན་ཕྱིར་ས་རྣམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་བཞིན། །སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཉེར་འཚོའི་ཕྱིར། །ཚོགས་གཉིས་དག་ནི་ཉི་མ་བཞིན། །རྒྱ་ཆེ་མཐའ་དང་དབུས་མེད་ཕྱིར། །བྱང་ཆུབ་ནམ་མཁའི་ཁམས་བཞིན་ནོ། །ཡང་དག་རྫོགས་སངས་ཆོས་ཉིད་ཕྱིར། །སེམས་ཅན་ཁམས་ནི་གཏེར་དང་འདྲ། །གློ་{br}བུར་ཁྱབ་དང་མ་གྲུབ་ཕྱིར། །དེ་ཡི་ཉོན་མོངས་སྤྲིན་ཚོགས་བཞིན། །དེ་གཏོར་བ་ཡི་ཉེར་གནས་ཕྱིར། །ཐུགས་རྗེ་མི་བཟད་རླུང་དང་འདྲ། །གཞན་གྱི་དབང་གིས་ངེས་འབྱུང་དང་། །བདག་དང་སེམས་ཅན་མཚུངས་གཟིགས་དང་། །མཛད་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་མ་རྫོགས་ཕྱིར། །འཁོར་བ་སྲིད་དུ་མཛད་མི་འཆད།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [9]
Performing acts of deliverance for the sake of others,
Perceiving the identity of himself and the living beings,
And, knowing no termination in his (altruistic) work,
The Buddha acts uninterruptedly, as long as the world exists.
Takasaki (1966) [10]
Performing Deliverance for the sake of others,
Considering the living beings as one's own self,
And having works of no termination, [The Buddha]
Acts 'uninterruptedly' as long as the world exists.
Fuchs (2000) [11]
Their release [is accomplished] for the sake of others.
They see the equality of themselves and sentient beings
and their activity is not completed to its full extent.
Thus their deeds will never cease while samsara exists.

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. With Schmithausen, MB is to be read as yā yatra (confirmed by DP gang gang du) instead of J yāvac ca (yā is also found and explained in IV.4c)
  5. As Schmithausen points out, this verse needs to be connected back to line IV.3d.
  6. All the instances of "of that"refer to the phrase that immediately precedes them.
  7. Skt. bodeḥ sattvaḥ parigrahaḥ. This refers to bodhisattvas as the ones who take hold of or attain awakening.
  8. Both DP and C read "the bhūmis."
  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.

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

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་

bhūmi - A plateau of spiritual development. Skt. भूमि Tib. ས་

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

dhātu - A fundamental component or essential constituent. Skt. धातु Tib. ཁམས་ Ch. 界

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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