Verse IV.56

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.56

Verse IV.56 Variations

स्वस्यैव पूर्वप्रणिधानयोगान् मरुद्गणानां च शुभानुभावात्
ब्रह्मा यथा भासम् उपैत्य् अयत्नान् निर्माणकायेन तथा स्वयंभूः

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[1]

svasyaiva pūrvapraṇidhānayogān marudgaṇānāṃ ca śubhānubhāvāt
brahmā yathā bhāsam upaity ayatnān nirmāṇakāyena tathā svayaṃbhūḥ

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[2]

སྔོན་གྱི་རང་ཉིད་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་། །
ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ནི་དགེ་བའི་མཐུས། །
ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་པ་འབད་མེད་སྣང་། །
རང་བྱུང་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་དེ་བཞིན་ནོ། །

Dege, PHI, 139

Just as, by virtue of his own previous aspiration prayers
And as a result of the virtues of the gods,
Brahmā manifests his appearance without effort,
So does the self-arisen one by means of the nirmāṇakāya.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 447 ^[3]

Par le pouvoir de ses propres souhaits antérieurs

Et celui des actes vertueux des êtres divins,

Brahma se manifeste sans effort. De même en est-il

Pour les corps d’apparition de celui qui est né de lui-même.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

RGVV Commentary on Verse IV.56

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།ཚངས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞིན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་པ་ཚངས་པ་ཡི། །གནས་ནས་འཕོ་བ་མེད་བཞིན་དུ། །ལྷ་ཡི་གནས་ནི་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ། །སྣང་བ་འབད་མེད་སྟོན་པ་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་ཐུབ་པའི་ཆོས་སྐུ་ལས། །བསྐྱོད་པ་མེད་པར་ཁམས་ཀུན་ཏུ། །སྐལ་ལྡན་རྣམས་ལ་འབད་མེད་པར། །སྤྲུལ་

པ་དག་གིས་སྟོན་པར་མཛད། །ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་རྟག་གཞལ་ཡས་ཁང་ནས་མི་གཡོ་འདོད་ཁམས་ཞུགས་པ་དེ། །ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་མཐོང་དེ་མཐོང་དེ་ཡང་ཡུལ་ལ་དགའ་བ་སྤོང་བྱེད་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་བདེ་གཤེགས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ལས་མི་བསྐྱོད་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཀུན་དུ་དེ། །སྐལ་ལྡན་གྱིས་མཐོང་དེ་ནི་མཐོང་དེ་རྟག་ཏུ་དྲི་མ་ཀུན་སེལ་བྱེད། །སྔོན་གྱི་རང་ཉིད་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་། །ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ནི་དགེ་བའི་མཐུས། །ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་པ་འབད་མེད་སྣང་། །རང་བྱུང་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་དེ་བཞིན་ནོ།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) ^[5]

As owing to the vows of Brahma himself9

His vision is perceived without effort,

So is the Apparitional form (of the Buddha),

Which becomes originated by itself.

Takasaki (1966) ^[6]

Because of his own original vow,

And of the pure experiences of the multitudes of gods,

Brahmā manifests his apparition without any effort;

Similar is the Buddha, by means of his Apparitional Body.

Fuchs (2000) ^[7]

By his own former wishing prayers

and the power of the virtue of the gods

Brahma appears without deliberate effort.

So does the self-sprung illusory kaya.

Textual sources[edit]

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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. 283a.5–284b.5.
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. 283a.5–284b.5.

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

[6] 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.

[7] 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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+|EnglishCommentary=(4) (J107) [That sūtra also] says that [buddha activity] is like Mahābrahmā.<ref>''Jñānālokālaṃkārasūtra'', D100, fols. 283a.5–284b.5.</ref>
+::'''Just as Brahmā, without moving away'''
+::'''From the abode belonging to Brahmā,'''
+::'''Effortlessly displays his appearance'''
+::'''Everywhere in the sphere of the gods''', IV.53
+::'''So the sage, without moving away'''
+::'''From the dharmakāya''',
+::'''Effortlessly displays himself to the suitable''' (D125b)
+::'''Through emanations in all realms'''. IV.54
+::'''Just as Brahmā does not move away from his palace and yet his constant manifestation in the desire realm'''
+::'''Is seen by the gods, with their desire for objects being relinquished through this seeing''',
+::'''So the Sugata does not move away from the kāya of the genuine dharma and yet is seen by the suitable ones'''
+::'''In all worlds, with their stains always being relinquished in their entirety by this seeing'''. IV.55
+::'''Just as, by virtue of his own previous aspiration prayers'''
+::'''And as a result of the virtues of the gods,'''
+::'''Brahmā manifests his appearance without effort''',
+::'''So does the self-arisen one by means of the nirmāṇakāya'''. IV.56
+|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>
+:As owing to the vows of Brahma himself9
+:His vision is perceived without effort,
+:So is the Apparitional form (of the Buddha),
+:Which becomes originated by itself.
+<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>
+:Because of his own original vow,
+:And of the pure experiences of the multitudes of gods,
+:Brahmā manifests his apparition without any effort;
+:Similar is the Buddha, by means of his Apparitional Body.
+<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 his own former wishing prayers
+:and the power of the virtue of the gods
+:Brahma appears without deliberate effort.
+:So does the self-sprung illusory kaya.
 }}