Verse IV.31

།ལྷའི་རྔ་བཞིན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། ཇི་ལྟར་ལྷ་ནང་ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱི། །སྔོན་གྱི་དཀར་པོའི་མཐུ་ཡིས་ནི། །འབད་དང་གནས་དང་ཡིད་གཟུགས་དང་། །རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་མེད་བཞིན་དུ། །མི་རྟག་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བདག་མེད་དང་། །ཞི་བའི་སྒྲ་ཡིས་བག་མེད་པའི། །ལྷ་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡང་ནས་ཡང་། །ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྔས་ནི་སྐུལ་བྱེད་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་ཁྱབ་བདག་འབད་སོགས་དང་། །བྲལ་དང་འགྲོ་བ་མ་ལུས་པ། །སངས་རྒྱས་གསུང་གིས་ཁྱབ་མཛད་དེ། །སྐལ་ལྡན་རྣམས་ལ་ཆོས་སྟོན་ཏོ། །ཇི་ལྟར་ལྷ་ནང་ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱི། །རྔ་སྒྲ་རང་གི་ལས་ལས་བྱུང་། །དེ་བཞིན་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཐུབ་པའི་ཆོས། །གསུང་བའང་རང་གི་ལས་ལས་འབྱུང་། །འབད་གནས་ལུས་དང་སེམས་བྲལ་བའི། །སྒྲ་དེ་ཇི་ལྟར་ཞི་སྒྲུབ་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་བཞི་དང་བྲལ་བ་ཡི། །ཆོས་འདི་ཞི་བ་སྒྲུབ་པར་བྱེད། །ཇི་ལྟར་ལྷ་ཡི་གྲོང་ན་རྔ་སྒྲའི་རྒྱུན་འབྱུང་མི་འཇིགས་སྦྱིན་པ་ནི། །ཉོན་མོངས་གཡུལ་དུ་འཇུག་ཚེ་ལྷ་མིན་གཡུལ་རྒྱལ་རྩེད་མོ་སེལ་བ་བཞིན། །དེ་བཞིན་འཇིག་རྟེན་དག་ན་བསམ་གཏན་གཟུགས་མེད་ལ་སོགས་རྒྱུས་བྱུང་བ། །སེམས་ཅན་ཉོན་མོངས་སྡུག་བསྔལ་རབ་འཇོམས་ཞི་བ་བླ་མེད་ལམ་ཚུལ་བརྗོད།།ཅིའི་ཕྱིར་འདིར་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྔ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་དབང་དུ་བྱས་ཀྱི། ལྷའི་སིལ་སྙན་གྱི་རྣམ་པ་དེ་ལས་གཞན་པ་དག་ཀྱང་མ་ཡིན་ཏེ། དེ་དག་ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྔོན་བྱས་པའི་ལས་ཀྱི་དབང་གིས་མོད་ཁོ་ནར་ལྷའི་རྣ་བར་ཡིད་འཕྲོག་པའི་སྒྲའི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྱུང་བར་འགྱུར་རོ་ཞེ་ན། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་དབྱངས་དང་དེ་དག་ཆོས་མི་མཐུན་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་རྣམ་པ་བཞིའོ། །དེ་དག་ཀྱང་གང་ཞེ་ན། འདི་ལྟ་སྟེ། ཉི་ཚེ་བ་ཉིད་དང་། ཕན་པ་མ་ཡིན་པ་ཉིད་དང་། བདེ་བ་མ་ཡིན་པ་ཉིད་དང་། ངེས་པར་འབྱིན་པར་བྱེད་པ་མ་ཡིན་པ་ཉིད་དོ། །ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྔ་ནི་བག་མེད་པའི་ལྷའི་ཚོགས་མཐའ་

དག་བསྐུལ་བ་ཉིད་དང་། དེའི་དུས་ལ་མི་འདའ་བས་ན་ཉི་ཚེ་བ་མ་ཡིན་པ་ཉིད་དུ་བསྟན་ཏོ། །ལྷ་མ་ཡིན་ལ་སོགས་པ་ཕ་རོལ་གྱི་ཚོགས་ཉེ་བར་འཚེ་བའི་འཇིགས་པ་ལས་ཡོངས་སུ་སྐྱོབ་པ་ཉིད་དང་། བག་ཡོད་པའི་གནས་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་སྦྱོར་བས་ན་ཕན་པ་ཉིད་དང་། དམ་པ་མ་ཡིན་པའི་འདོད་པའི་དགའ་བ་དེ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ་ཉིད་དང་། ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཀུན་དགའི་དགའ་བདེ་ཉེ་བར་སྒྲུབ་པས་ན་བདེ་བ་ཉིད་དོ། །མི་རྟག་པ་དང་། སྡུག་བསྔལ་བ་དང་། སྟོང་པ་དང་། བདག་མེད་པའི་སྒྲ་སྒྲོགས་པ་ཉིད་དང་། ཉེ་བར་འཚེ་བའི་ཕོངས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཉེ་བར་ཞི་བར་བྱེད་པས་ན་ངེས་པར་འབྱིན་པར་བྱེད་པ་ཉིད་དུ་བསྟན་ཏོ།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) ^[9]

Just as, amongst the gods,

By the force of their previous virtues,

Without effort, without a special place,

Without form, without consciousness,

And without any constructive thought,

Takasaki (1966) ^[10]

Just as, in the heaven of the gods,

Owing to the previous, virtuous experiences,

The divine drum, being apart from efforts,

From a particular place, from forms of mind,

And from thought-constructions,

Fuchs (2000) ^[11]

By the power of the gods' former virtue

the Dharma drum [arose] among them.

Involving no effort, origin, or thought,

Textual sources[edit]

Commentaries on this verse[edit]

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.
Jñānālokālaṃkārasūtra, D100, fols. 280b.1–282a.4.
DP "drum of dharma" (chos kyi raga).
I follow VT’s (fol. 16r4) gloss of °praṇudanaṃ as °pravartanaṃ. DP have sell ba, thus reading "to dispel the victorious [war]play of the forces of the asuras."
I follow MB apramādapadasaṃniyojanatayā (supported by DP bag yod pa’i gnas la rab tu sbyor bas) against J apramādasaṃniyojanatayā.
Skt. vivecana usually means "distinction" or "examination" (corresponding to DP ram par ’byed pa). However, as de Jong points out, in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, vivecayati means "causing to abandon,"dissuading from." This seems to fit the present context of standing in contrast to "bringing close to" (upasaṃharaṇa) better.
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.

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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] Jñānālokālaṃkārasūtra, D100, fols. 280b.1–282a.4.

[5] DP "drum of dharma" (chos kyi raga).

[6] I follow VT’s (fol. 16r4) gloss of °praṇudanaṃ as °pravartanaṃ. DP have sell ba, thus reading "to dispel the victorious [war]play of the forces of the asuras."

[7] I follow MB apramādapadasaṃniyojanatayā (supported by DP bag yod pa’i gnas la rab tu sbyor bas) against J apramādasaṃniyojanatayā.

[8] Skt. vivecana usually means "distinction" or "examination" (corresponding to DP ram par ’byed pa). However, as de Jong points out, in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, vivecayati means "causing to abandon,"dissuading from." This seems to fit the present context of standing in contrast to "bringing close to" (upasaṃharaṇa) better.

[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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+|VariationOriginal=ཇི་ལྟར་ལྷ་ནང་ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱི། །<br>སྔོན་གྱི་དཀར་པོའི་མཐུ་ཡིས་ནི། །<br>འབད་དང་གནས་དང་ཡིད་གཟུགས་དང་། །<br>རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་མེད་བཞིན་དུ། །
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+|EnglishCommentary=(2) [That sūtra also] says that [buddha activity] is like the drum of the
+gods.<ref>''Jñānālokālaṃkārasūtra'', D100, fols. 280b.1–282a.4. </ref>
+::'''Just as in the heaven of the gods''',
+::'''As a result of their previous virtue'''
+::'''And free from effort, location''',
+::'''Mind, form, and conception''', IV.31
+::'''The drum of the gods<ref>DP "drum of dharma" (''chos kyi raga''). </ref> again and again'''
+::'''Summons all the heedless gods'''
+::'''Through the sounds "impermanence,"'''
+::'''"Suffering," "lack of self," and "peace,"''' IV.32
+::'''So the lord, who pervades the world'''
+::'''In its entirety, with his buddha voice''',
+::'''Teaches the dharma, free from effort'''
+::'''And so on, to those who are suitable'''. IV.33
+::'''Just as the sound of the divine drum in the heaven of the gods arises from their own karma,'''
+::'''The sage’s teaching of the dharma in the world also arises from [the world’s] own karma.'''
+::'''Just as [the drum’s] sound, free from effort, location, body, and mind, brings forth peace,'''
+::'''So this dharma devoid of those four factors brings forth peace.''' IV.34
+::'''Just as, when engaging in the troubles of battle in the city of the gods, the sound of this drum'''
+::'''Arises as the cause for them to be fearless and to engage<ref>I follow VT’s (fol. 16r4) gloss of °''praṇudanaṃ'' as °''pravartanaṃ''. DP have ''sell ba'', thus reading "to dispel the victorious [war]play of the forces of the asuras."</ref> in the [war]play of being victorious over the forces of the asuras''',
+::'''So in the world the dhyānas, formless [absorptions], and so on, arise as the cause for the [Buddha’s] speech''' (P129b)
+::'''About the principle of the unsurpassable path that destroys the afflictions and pacifies the suffering in sentient beings'''. IV.35
+[You may wonder,] "Why does [this example] here refer [only] to '''the drum''' of dharma and not to the cymbals and other kinds of divine [musical instruments]? Due to the power of the '''previously''' committed '''virtuous karma''' of the gods, without being played [by anybody], these [other instruments] too produce divine sounds pleasant to hear." (J103) [They are not referred to here] because they are dissimilar to the Tathāgata’s voice in terms of four kinds of qualities. What are these? They are as follows: being limited, not beneficial, unpleasant, and not conducive to deliverance. By contrast, the drum of dharma is explained to be unlimited because it summons all the assemblies of heedless gods without exception (D124a) and never misses the [proper] time for [doing] so. It is beneficial because it protects [the gods] from being afraid of any harm [caused by] the hosts of their adversaries, such as the asuras, and because it connects them with the [crucial] point of heedfulness.<ref>I follow MB ''apramādapadasaṃniyojanatayā'' (supported by DP ''bag yod pa’i gnas la rab tu sbyor bas'') against J ''apramādasaṃniyojanatayā''. </ref> It is pleasant because it makes [the gods] abandon<ref>Skt. ''vivecana'' usually means "distinction" or "examination" (corresponding to DP ''ram par ’byed pa''). However, as de Jong points out, in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, ''vivecayati'' means "causing to abandon,"dissuading from." This seems to fit the present context of standing in contrast to "bringing close to" (''upasaṃharaṇa'') better.</ref> the delight and pleasure due to wrong desire and because it brings them close to the [true] delight and pleasure of relishing the dharma. It is explained to be conducive to deliverance because it utters the sounds "impermanence," "suffering," "emptiness," and "'''lack of self'''" and because it pacifies misfortune and mental disturbance.
+|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>
+:Just as, amongst the gods,
+:By the force of their previous virtues,
+:Without effort, without a special place,
+:Without form, without consciousness,
+:And without any constructive thought,
+<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>
+:Just as, in the heaven of the gods,
+:Owing to the previous, virtuous experiences,
+:The divine drum, being apart from efforts,
+:From a particular place, from forms of mind,
+:And from thought-constructions,
+<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>
+:By the power of the gods' former virtue
+:the Dharma drum [arose] among them.
+:Involving no effort, origin, or thought,
 }}

Verse IV.31

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Verse IV.31 Variations

RGVV Commentary on Verse IV.31