Verse I.96

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|VariationOriginal=बुद्धः कुपद्मे मधु मक्षिकासु<br>तुषेसु साराण्य शुचौ सुवर्णम्।<br>निधिः क्षितावल्पफलेऽङ्कुरादि<br>प्रक्लिन्नवस्त्रेषु जिनात्मभावः
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|VariationTrans=saṃbuddhakāyaspharaṇāt tathatāvyatibhedataḥ<br>gotrataśca sadā sarve buddhagarbhāḥ śarīriṇaḥ
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|VariationTrans=buddhaḥ kupadme madhu makṣikāsu <br>tuṣesu sārāṇya śucau suvarṇam<br>nidhiḥ kṣitāvalpaphale 'ṅkurādi <br>praklinnavastreṣu jinātmabhāvaḥ
 
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|VariationOriginal=།རྫོགས་སངས་སྐུ་ནི་འཕྲོ་ཕྱིར་དང་།<br>།དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དབྱེར་མེད་ཕྱིར་དང་།<br>།རིགས་ཡོད་ཕྱིར་ན་ལུས་ཅན་ཀུན།<br>།རྟག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྙིང་པོ་ཅན།
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|VariationOriginal=སངས་རྒྱས་པད་ངན་སྦྲང་རྩི་སྦྲང་མ་ལ། །<br>སྦུན་ལ་སྙིང་པོ་མི་གཙང་ནང་ན་གསེར། །<br>ས་ལ་གཏེར་དང་སྨྱུག་སོགས་འབྲས་ཆུང་དང་། །<br>གོས་ཧྲུལ་ནང་ན་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུ་དང་ནི། །
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|VariationTrans=Since the perfect buddhakaya '''radiates''',<br>Since '''suchness''' is undifferentiable,<br>And because of the '''disposition''',<br>All beings always '''possess''' the buddha heart.
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|VariationTrans=A buddha in a decaying lotus, honey amid bees,<br>Kernels in their husks, gold in filth,<br>A treasure in the earth, a sprout and so on from a small fruit,<br>An image of the victor in a tattered garment,
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|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 356-357 <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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|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 393 <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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|VariationOriginal=體及因果業&nbsp;&nbsp;相應及以行<br>時差別遍處&nbsp;&nbsp;不變無差別<br>彼妙義次第&nbsp;&nbsp;第一真法性<br>我如是略說&nbsp;&nbsp;汝今應善知
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|VariationOriginal=萎華中諸佛  眾蜂中美蜜<br>
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皮糩等中實  糞穢中真金<br>
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|VariationTrans=The Buddha's Body penetrates everywhere,<br>Reality is of undifferentiated nature,<br>And the Germ [of the Buddha] exists (in the living beings).<br>Therefore, all living beings are<br>Always possessed of the Matrix of the Buddha.
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地中珍寶藏  諸果子中芽<br>
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|VariationTransSource=[[A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism|Takasaki, p. 197]]<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>, from Sanskrit with reference to the Chinese.
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朽故弊壞衣  纏裹真金像
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|VariationTrans=Like the Buddha in an ugly lotus flower,<br>
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Like honey surrounded by bees,<br>
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Like kernels of grains covered by the husk,
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Like gold fallen into impurities,
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Like a treasure under the ground,
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Like a sprout, etc. grown from a small fruit,  
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Like an image of the Buddha wrapped in a tattered garment,
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|VariationTransSource=[[A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism|Takasaki, p. 268-269]]<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>, from Sanskrit with reference to the Chinese.
 
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|EnglishCommentary=Now, it is in terms of [this tathāgata heart’s] being covered by the afflictions (which have the nature of being associated with it [but] not being connected with it [since time] without beginning) and the pure true nature (which has the nature of being associated and connected with the [tathāgata heart since time] without beginning) that the tathāgata heart’s being concealed by infinite cocoons of the afflictions should be comprehended through nine examples according to the sūtras.<ref>These nine examples stem from the ''Tathāgatagarbhasūtra'' (D258, fols. 248a.3–254b.3).</ref> What are these nine examples? {J60}
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::'''A buddha in a decaying lotus, honey amid bees,'''
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::'''Kernels in their husks,<ref>I follow MA ''tuṣeṣu sārāny'' against J ''tuṣesu sārāny''. </ref> gold in filth,'''
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::'''A treasure in the earth, a sprout and so on from a small fruit,'''
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::'''An image of the victor in a tattered garment, I.96'''
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::'''Royalty in the womb of a destitute<ref>DP "lowly" (''ngan ma''). </ref> woman,
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::'''And a precious statue in clay—just as these exist,
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::'''This basic element dwells in sentient beings
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::'''Obscured by the adventitious stains of the afflictions. I.97
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::'''The stains resemble the lotus, the insects,<ref>Skt. ''prāṇi'' (lit. "living beings" or "animals"). </ref> the husks, the filth, the earth, the peel of a fruit,'''
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::'''The foul-smelling garment, the body of a lowly woman, and the element of earth heated in a fire.'''<ref>With Schmithausen, I follow MA °''strīrūpa''° against J °''strīduḥkha''° and take °''jvalanābhitaptapṛthivīdhātu''° as a unit, which is also confirmed by VT (fol. 13v2) that relates ''jvalanābhitaptaṃ'' to ''pṛthivīdhātuḥ'', saying that jvalanābhitaptaṃ refers to heated gold and pṛthivīdhātuḥ to the earth that covers that gold. However, DP read "a lowly woman tormented by the blaze of suffering, and the element of earth" (''dug bsngal ’bar bas mngon par gdungs pa’i bud med sa yi khans'').</ref>
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::'''The supreme basic element has the stainless appearance<ref>I follow Schmithausen in linking °''vimalaprakhyaḥ'' with ''sa dhātuḥ paraḥ'' and not with °''ratnabimba''° ("precious statue"in VI.98d). DP read "the stainless supreme basic element resembles . . ." (''dang dri med khams mchog mtshungs pa nyid'').</ref> of the buddha, the honey, the kernels, the gold, the treasure,'''
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::'''The nyagrodha tree, the precious image, the supreme lord of the world, and the precious statue. I.98'''
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<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 the Buddha in an ugly lotus flower,
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:Like honey (concealed by) a swarm of bees，
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:Like a kernel of a fruit in the bark, and like gold buried in impurities,
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:Like a treasure in the ground, and like a sprout hidden in a small seed,
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:Like the image of the Lord covered, by a tattered garment<ref>This is verse 94 in Obermiller's translation</ref>
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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 the Buddha in an ugly lotus flower,
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:Like honey surrounded by bees,
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:Like kernels of grains covered by the husk,
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:Like gold fallen into impurities,
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:Like a treasure under the ground,
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:Like a sprout, etc. grown from a small fruit,
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:Like an image of the Buddha wrapped in a tattered garment,
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<h6>Holmes (1985) <ref>Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.</ref></h6>
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:Similar to a buddha in a decaying lotus,
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:honey amidst bees, grains in their husks,
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:gold in filth, a treasure in the ground,
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:shoots and so on piercing through fruits,
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:a buddha-statue inside tattered rags,
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<h6>Holmes (1999) <ref>Holmes, Ken & Katia. Maitreya on Buddha Nature. Scotland: Altea Publishing, 1999.</ref></h6>
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:Similar to a buddha in a decaying lotus,
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:honey amidst bees, grains in their husks,
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:gold in filth, a treasure under the ground,
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:shoots and the like piercing through fruits,
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:a buddha statue inside tattered rags,
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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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:Just like a buddha in a decaying lotus, honey amidst bees,
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:a grain in its husk, gold in filth, a treasure underground,
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:a shoot and so on sprouting from a little fruit,
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:a statue of the Victorious One in a tattered rag,
 
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Latest revision as of 11:25, 18 August 2020

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.96

Verse I.96 Variations

बुद्धः कुपद्मे मधु मक्षिकासु
तुषेसु साराण्य शुचौ सुवर्णम्।
निधिः क्षितावल्पफलेऽङ्कुरादि
प्रक्लिन्नवस्त्रेषु जिनात्मभावः
buddhaḥ kupadme madhu makṣikāsu
tuṣesu sārāṇya śucau suvarṇam
nidhiḥ kṣitāvalpaphale 'ṅkurādi
praklinnavastreṣu jinātmabhāvaḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
སངས་རྒྱས་པད་ངན་སྦྲང་རྩི་སྦྲང་མ་ལ། །
སྦུན་ལ་སྙིང་པོ་མི་གཙང་ནང་ན་གསེར། །
ས་ལ་གཏེར་དང་སྨྱུག་སོགས་འབྲས་ཆུང་དང་། །
གོས་ཧྲུལ་ནང་ན་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུ་དང་ནི། །
Dege, PHI, 116
A buddha in a decaying lotus, honey amid bees,
Kernels in their husks, gold in filth,
A treasure in the earth, a sprout and so on from a small fruit,
An image of the victor in a tattered garment,
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 393 [2]
萎華中諸佛 眾蜂中美蜜

皮糩等中實 糞穢中真金
地中珍寶藏 諸果子中芽
朽故弊壞衣 纏裹真金像

http://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/en/T31n1611_p0837a15
Like the Buddha in an ugly lotus flower,

Like honey surrounded by bees,
Like kernels of grains covered by the husk, Like gold fallen into impurities, Like a treasure under the ground, Like a sprout, etc. grown from a small fruit, Like an image of the Buddha wrapped in a tattered garment,

Takasaki, p. 268-269[3], from Sanskrit with reference to the Chinese.
Comme un bouddha dans un lotus flétri, le miel au milieu des abeilles,
Le grain dans la balle, l’or dans les immondices,
Un trésor enterré, le germe [d’un grand arbre né] d’un petit fruit,
Une statue de bouddha dans des haillons,
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

RGVV Commentary on Verse I.96

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དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་འདི་རྣམ་པར་གཞག་པ་བཤད་པ་ཡིན་ནོ། །ཐོག་མ་མེད་པའི་དུས་ནས་ཉེ་བར་གནས་པ་མ་འབྲེལ་བའི་རང་བཞིན་གྱི་ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་སྦུབས་ཉིད་དང་། ཐོག་མ་མེད་པའི་དུས་ནས་ཉེ་བར་གནས་པ་འབྲེལ་བའི་{br}རང་བཞིན་དག་པའི་ཆོས་ཉིད་ཀྱི་དབང་དུ་བྱས་ནས། དཔེ་དགུས་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་གཉེན་པོ་ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་སྦུབས་བྱེ་བ་མཐའ་ཡས་པས་གཏུམས་པ་ནི། མདོ་ཇི་ལྟ་བ་བཞིན་རྟོགས་པར་བྱའོ། །དཔེ་དགུ་གང་ཞེ་ན། སངས་རྒྱས་པད་ངན་སྦྲང་རྩི་སྦྲང་མ་ལ། །སྦུན་པ་སྙིང་པོ་{br}མི་གཙང་ནང་ན་གསེར། །ས་ལ་གཏེར་དང་མྱུག་སོགས་འབྲས་ཆུང་དང་། །གོས་ཧྲུལ་ནང་ན་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྐུ་དང་ནི། །བུད་མེད་ངན་མའི་ལྟོ་ན་མི་བདག་དང་། །ས་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་གཟུགས་ཡོད་ཇི་ལྟ་བར། །གློ་བུར་ཉོན་མོངས་དྲི་མས་བསྒྲིབས་པ་ཡི། །སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས་ལ་དེ་བཞིན་ཁམས་{br}འདི་གནས། །དྲི་མ་པདྨ་སྲོག་ཆགས་སྦུན་པ་མི་གཙང་ས་འབྲས་གོས་ཧྲུལ་དང་། །སྡུག་བསྔལ་འབར་བས་མངོན་པར་གདུངས་པའི་བུད་མེད་ས་ཡི་ཁམས་དང་མཚུངས། །སངས་རྒྱས་སྦྲང་རྩི་སྙིང་པོ་གསེར་དང་གཏེར་དང་ནྱ་གྲོ་རིན་ཆེན་སྐུ། །གླིང་བདག་མཆོག་དང་རིན་ཆེན་གཟུགས་{br}དང་དྲི་མེད་ཁམས་མཆོག་མཚུངས་པ་ཉིད།

Other English translations[edit]

Listed by date of publication
Obermiller (1931) [10]
Like the Buddha in an ugly lotus flower,
Like honey (concealed by) a swarm of bees，
Like a kernel of a fruit in the bark, and like gold buried in impurities,
Like a treasure in the ground, and like a sprout hidden in a small seed,
Like the image of the Lord covered, by a tattered garment[11]
Takasaki (1966) [12]
Like the Buddha in an ugly lotus flower,
Like honey surrounded by bees,
Like kernels of grains covered by the husk,
Like gold fallen into impurities,
Like a treasure under the ground,
Like a sprout, etc. grown from a small fruit,
Like an image of the Buddha wrapped in a tattered garment,
Holmes (1985) [13]
Similar to a buddha in a decaying lotus,
honey amidst bees, grains in their husks,
gold in filth, a treasure in the ground,
shoots and so on piercing through fruits,
a buddha-statue inside tattered rags,
Holmes (1999) [14]
Similar to a buddha in a decaying lotus,
honey amidst bees, grains in their husks,
gold in filth, a treasure under the ground,
shoots and the like piercing through fruits,
a buddha statue inside tattered rags,
Fuchs (2000) [15]
Just like a buddha in a decaying lotus, honey amidst bees,
a grain in its husk, gold in filth, a treasure underground,
a shoot and so on sprouting from a little fruit,
a statue of the Victorious One in a tattered rag,

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Academic notes[edit]

  1. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. These nine examples stem from the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra (D258, fols. 248a.3–254b.3).
  5. I follow MA tuṣeṣu sārāny against J tuṣesu sārāny.
  6. DP "lowly" (ngan ma).
  7. Skt. prāṇi (lit. "living beings" or "animals").
  8. With Schmithausen, I follow MA °strīrūpa° against J °strīduḥkha° and take °jvalanābhitaptapṛthivīdhātu° as a unit, which is also confirmed by VT (fol. 13v2) that relates jvalanābhitaptaṃ to pṛthivīdhātuḥ, saying that jvalanābhitaptaṃ refers to heated gold and pṛthivīdhātuḥ to the earth that covers that gold. However, DP read "a lowly woman tormented by the blaze of suffering, and the element of earth" (dug bsngal ’bar bas mngon par gdungs pa’i bud med sa yi khans).
  9. I follow Schmithausen in linking °vimalaprakhyaḥ with sa dhātuḥ paraḥ and not with °ratnabimba° ("precious statue"in VI.98d). DP read "the stainless supreme basic element resembles . . ." (dang dri med khams mchog mtshungs pa nyid).
  10. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  11. This is verse 94 in Obermiller's translation
  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. Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.
  14. Holmes, Ken & Katia. Maitreya on Buddha Nature. Scotland: Altea Publishing, 1999.
  15. 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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