Verse IV.13

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|VariationOriginal=བརྒྱ་བྱིན་རྔ་སྤྲིན་ཚངས་པ་དང་། །<br>ཉི་མ་ནོར་བུ་རིན་ཆེན་བཞིན། །<br>དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་སྒྲ་བརྙན་བཞིན། །<br>ནམ་མཁའ་དང་ནི་ས་བཞིན་ནོ། །
 
|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=Like Śakra and a drum, like clouds,<br>Brahmā, the sun, and a precious jewel,<br>Like an echo, like space and the earth,<br>Thus is the Tathāgata.
 
|VariationTrans=Like Śakra and a drum, like clouds,<br>Brahmā, the sun, and a precious jewel,<br>Like an echo, like space and the earth,<br>Thus is the Tathāgata.
 
|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=It has been declared that buddhahood is characterized by being without arising and without ceasing. How is it then that from this unconditioned buddhahood, which has the characteristic of lacking functionality, effortless, uninterrupted, and nonconceptual buddha activity manifests functionality here for as long as the world lasts? In order to give rise to faith in the inconceivable object of the Buddha in those in whom dissent and doubt about the Buddha’s nature of magnanimity have arisen, [there follows] a verse on his magnanimity.
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::'''Like Śakra and a drum, like clouds''',
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::'''Brahmā, the sun, and a precious jewel''',
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::'''Like an echo, like space and the earth''',
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::'''Thus is the Tathāgata.''' IV.13
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(J100) It should be understood that the instruction on the detailed analysis of this verse that represents what the [Jñānālokālaṃkāra]sūtra [says about this topic will be given] in the remainder of the text in due order.
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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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:Like Indra, like the celestial drum, like a cloud, and like Brahma,
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:Like the sun, and like the wish-fulfilling gem,
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:Like the echo, like space, and like the earth,—
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:Such is the Buddha in his acts.
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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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:Like Indra, like the divine drum,
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:Like clouds, like Brahma, and like the sun,
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:Like the wish-fulfilling gem, like an echo,
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:Like space and like the earth,—
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:Such is the Buddha [in his acts].
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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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:A tathagata is similar to Indra,
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:to the drum [of the gods], clouds,
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:to Brahma, the sun, a precious gem,
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:to an echo, to space, and the earth.
 
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Latest revision as of 15:02, 16 September 2020

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.13

Verse IV.13 Variations

शक्रदुन्दुभिवन् मेघब्रह्मार्कमणिरत्नवत्
प्रतिश्रुतिरिवाकाशपृथिवीवत् तथागतः
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
śakradundubhivan meghabrahmārkamaṇiratnavat
pratiśrutirivākāśapṛthivīvat tathāgataḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
བརྒྱ་བྱིན་རྔ་སྤྲིན་ཚངས་པ་དང་། །
ཉི་མ་ནོར་བུ་རིན་ཆེན་བཞིན། །
དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་སྒྲ་བརྙན་བཞིན། །
ནམ་མཁའ་དང་ནི་ས་བཞིན་ནོ། །
Dege, PHI, 134
Like Śakra and a drum, like clouds,
Brahmā, the sun, and a precious jewel,
Like an echo, like space and the earth,
Thus is the Tathāgata.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 439 [3]
Le Tathāgata est comparable à Indra,
Au tambour [des dieux], à un nuage,
À Brahma, au soleil, à un précieux joyau,
À l’écho, à l’espace et à la terre.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

RGVV Commentary on Verse IV.13

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།{br}སྐྱེ་བ་དང་འགག་པ་མེད་པས་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱེ་བ་ཞེས་བརྗོད་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཉིད་གང་ཡིན་པ་དེ། འདིར་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་ན་འདུས་མ་བྱས་པས་འཇུག་པ་མེད་པའི་མཚན་ཉིད་སངས་རྒྱས་ཉིད་ལས་ལྷུན་གྱིས་གྲུབ་ཅིང་རྒྱུན་མི་འཆད་པར་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཇི་སྲིད་དུ། རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་མེད་པར་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་མཛད་པ་{br}རྒྱུན་དུ་འཇུག་ཅེས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆེ་བའི་བདག་ཉིད་ཆོས་ཉིད་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ། ཐེ་ཚོམ་དང་སོམ་ཉི་མེད་པ་རྣམས་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཡུལ་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་པ་ལ་མོས་པ་བསྐྱེད་པའི་ཕྱིར། དཔེའི་ཆེ་བའི་བདག་ཉིད་ལས་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། བརྒྱ་བྱིན་རྔ་སྤྲིན་ཚངས་པ་དང་། །ཉི་མ་ནོར་བུ་རིན་ཆེན་{br}བཞིན། །དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་སྒྲ་བརྙན་བཞིན། །ནམ་མཁའ་དང་ནི་ས་བཞིན་ནོ། །མདོའི་གནས་ལྟ་བུའི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་འདིའི་རྣམ་པར་དབྱེ་བ་རྒྱས་པར་བསྟན་པ་ནི། གོ་རིམས་ཇི་ལྟ་བ་བཞིན་དུ་གཞུང་ལྷག་མས་རིག་པར་བྱའོ།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [4]
Like Indra, like the celestial drum, like a cloud, and like Brahma,
Like the sun, and like the wish-fulfilling gem,
Like the echo, like space, and like the earth,—
Such is the Buddha in his acts.
Takasaki (1966) [5]
Like Indra, like the divine drum,
Like clouds, like Brahma, and like the sun,
Like the wish-fulfilling gem, like an echo,
Like space and like the earth,—
Such is the Buddha [in his acts].
Fuchs (2000) [6]
A tathagata is similar to Indra,
to the drum [of the gods], clouds,
to Brahma, the sun, a precious gem,
to an echo, to space, and the earth.

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. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  5. 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.
  6. 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

sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt. सूत्र Tib. མདོ། Ch. 佛经

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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