Verse V.14

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|VariationOriginal=།འཁོར་གསུམ་རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་གང་།<br>།དེ་ནི་ཤེས་བྱའི་སྒྲིབ་པར་འདོད།<br>།སེར་སྣ་ལ་སོགས་རྣམ་རྟོག་གང་།<br>།དེ་ནི་ཉོན་མོངས་སྒྲིབ་པར་འདོད།
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|VariationOriginal=འཁོར་གསུམ་རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་གང་། །<br>དེ་ནི་ཤེས་བྱའི་སྒྲིབ་པར་འདོད། །<br>སེར་སྣ་ལ་སོགས་རྣམ་རྟོག་གང་། །<br>དེ་ནི་ཉོན་མོངས་སྒྲིབ་པར་འདོད། །
 
|VariationOriginalSource=[https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/kdbs/degetengyur/pbs/2916200 Dege, PHI, 144]
 
|VariationOriginalSource=[https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/kdbs/degetengyur/pbs/2916200 Dege, PHI, 144]
 
|VariationTrans=Conceptions in terms of the three spheres<br>Are asserted as the cognitive obscurations.<br>Antagonistic factors such as envy<br>Are held to be the afflictive obscurations.
 
|VariationTrans=Conceptions in terms of the three spheres<br>Are asserted as the cognitive obscurations.<br>Antagonistic factors such as envy<br>Are held to be the afflictive obscurations.
 
|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 457 <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]], 457 <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 verses should be understood by the following nine verses.
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::'''With regard to the foundation, its change,
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::'''Its qualities, and the promotion of welfare,
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::'''These four aspects of the object of the wisdom
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::'''Of the victors as they were described, V.7
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::'''The intelligent have faith in [the foundation’s] existing,
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::'''[Its change’s] being possible,<ref>I follow MA/MB °''śakyatva''° against J °''śaktatva''°. </ref> and its being endowed with qualities.
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::'''Therefore, they swiftly become suitable
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::'''To attain the state of a tathāgata. V.8
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::'''They are full of confidence and faith, [thinking,]
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::'''"This inconceivable object exists,
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::'''Can be attained by someone like me,
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::'''And, once attained, possesses such qualities." V.9
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::'''Thereby, bodhicitta as the receptacle
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::'''Of qualities such as confidence, vigor,
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::'''Mindfulness, dhyāna, and prajñā
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::'''Is present in them at all times. V.10
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::'''Since that [bodhicitta] is always<ref>Following DP and C, ''tatcitta''° is to be emended to ''tannitya''°. </ref> present,
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::'''The children of the victors are irreversible (P134b)
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::''' And reach the completion
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::'''And purity of the pāramitā of merit. V.11
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::'''Merit refers to the [first] five pāramitās,
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::'''Its completion is due to being nonconceptual
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::'''About the three aspects,<ref>As V.14 explains, these refer to the three spheres of agent, object, and action. </ref> and its purity
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::'''Is by virtue of the relinquishment of its antagonistic factors. V.12
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::'''Generosity is the merit that arises from giving,
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::'''Discipline is declared to arise from discipline,
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::'''The pair of patience and dhyāna arises
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::'''From meditation, and vigor is present in all. V.13 (J117)
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::'''Conceptions in terms of the three spheres
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::'''Are asserted as the cognitive obscurations.
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::'''Antagonistic factors<ref>DP "conceptions" (''ram tog''). </ref> such as envy<ref>DP "miserliness" (''ser sna''). </ref>
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::'''Are held to be the afflictive obscurations. V.14
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::'''Without prajñā, the other [pāramitās] do not represent
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::'''The causes for relinquishing these [obscurations].
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::'''Therefore, prajñā is the highest one, and its<ref>MA/MB ''cāsyā'' instead of J ''cāsya''.</ref> root (D128b)
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::'''Is study, so study is supreme [too]. V.15
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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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:That which represents constructive thought
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:Regarding the 3 aspects of activity
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:Is considered to be tho Obscuration of Ignorance,
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:And the thoughts concerning the reality of envy and the like
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:We esteem to be the Obscuration of Moral Defilement.
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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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:Discrimination regarding the 3 aspects of activity,
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:That is the Obscuration of Ignorance;
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:The opponents [to the 5 Highest Virtues], jealousy, etc.,
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:They are the Obscurations of Defilements.
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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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:Whatever ideates [in terms of] the three circles
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:is viewed as the veil of the hindrances to knowledge.
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:Whatever is the impulse of avarice and so on
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:is to be regarded as the veil of the mental poisons.
 
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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse V.14

Verse V.14 Variations

त्रिमण्डलविकल्पो यस्तज्ज्ञेयावरणं मतम्
मात्सर्यादिविपक्षो यस्तत् क्लेशावरणं मतम्
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
trimaṇḍalavikalpo yastajjñeyāvaraṇaṃ matam
mātsaryādivipakṣo yastat kleśāvaraṇaṃ matam
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
འཁོར་གསུམ་རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་གང་། །
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་བྱའི་སྒྲིབ་པར་འདོད། །
སེར་སྣ་ལ་སོགས་རྣམ་རྟོག་གང་། །
དེ་ནི་ཉོན་མོངས་སྒྲིབ་པར་འདོད། །
Dege, PHI, 144
Conceptions in terms of the three spheres
Are asserted as the cognitive obscurations.
Antagonistic factors such as envy
Are held to be the afflictive obscurations.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 457 [3]
La pensée qu’un acte ait trois pôles
Peut définir le voile cognitif.
De l’avarice et des autres pensées,
On dit qu’elles forment le voile émotionnel.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་འདི་རྣམས་ཀྱི་དོན་ནི། ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་དགུས་བཤད་པར་རིག་པར་བྱ་སྟེ། གནས་དང་དེ་ནི་གྱུར་པ་དང་། །དེ་ཡི་ཡོན་ཏན་དོན་གྲུབ་སྟེ། །རྒྱལ་བ་ཡི་ནི་མཁྱེན་{br}པའི་ཡུལ། །རྣམ་བཞི་ཇི་སྐད་བརྗོད་འདི་ལ། །བློ་ལྡན་ཡོད་དང་ནུས་ཉིད་དང་། །ཡོན་ཏན་ལྡན་པར་མོས་པས་ན། །མྱུར་དུ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཡི། །གོ་འཕང་འཐོབ་པའི་སྐལ་ལྡན་འགྱུར། །བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་པའི་ཡུལ་འདི་ནི། །ཡོད་དང་བདག་འདྲས་ཐོབ་ནུས་དང་། །ཐོབ་པ་འདི་འདྲའི་{br}ཡོན་ཏན་དང་། །ལྡན་ཞེས་དད་པས་མོས་པའི་ཕྱིར། །འདུན་བརྩོན་དྲན་དང་བསམ་གཏན་དང་། །ཤེས་རབ་ལ་སོགས་ཡོན་ཏན་སྣོད། །བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ནི་དེ་དག་ལ། །རྟག་ཏུ་ཉེ་བར་གནས་པར་འགྱུར། །དེ་ནི་རྟག་ཏུ་ཉེར་གནས་པས། །རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲས་པོ་ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག །བསོད་ནམས་ཕ་རོལ་ཕྱིན་{br}རྫོགས་དང་། །ཡོངས་སུ་དག་པ་ཉིད་དུ་འགྱུར། །བསོད་ནམས་ཕ་རོལ་ཕྱིན་པ་ལྔ། །དེ་ལ་རྣམ་གསུམ་རྟོག་མེད་པས། །དེ་རྫོགས་ཡོངས་སུ་དག་པ་ནི། །དེ་ཡི་མི་མཐུན་ཕྱོགས་སྤངས་ཕྱིར། །སྦྱིན་བྱུང་བསོད་ནམས་སྦྱིན་པ་དེ། །ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ལས་བྱུང་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཡིན། །བཟོད་དང་བསམ་གཏན་གཉིས་དག་ནི། །{br}སྒོམ་བྱུང་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་ཀུན་ཏུ་འགྲོ། །འཁོར་གསུམ་རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་གང་། །དེ་ནི་ཤེས་བྱའི་སྒྲིབ་པར་འདོད། །སེར་སྣ་ལ་སོགས་རྣམ་རྟོག་གང་། །དེ་ནི་ཉོན་མོངས་སྒྲིབ་པར་འདོད། །ཤེས་རབ་ལས་གཞན་འདི་དག་ནི། །སྤོང་རྒྱུ་གཞན་མེད་དེ་ཡི་ཕྱིར། །ཤེས་རབ་མཆོག་ཡིན་དེ་བཞི་ནི། །
ཐོས་པ་དེ་ཕྱིར་ཐོས་པ་མཆོག

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [10]
That which represents constructive thought
Regarding the 3 aspects of activity
Is considered to be tho Obscuration of Ignorance,
And the thoughts concerning the reality of envy and the like
We esteem to be the Obscuration of Moral Defilement.
Takasaki (1966) [11]
Discrimination regarding the 3 aspects of activity,
That is the Obscuration of Ignorance;
The opponents [to the 5 Highest Virtues], jealousy, etc.,
They are the Obscurations of Defilements.
Fuchs (2000) [12]
Whatever ideates [in terms of] the three circles
is viewed as the veil of the hindrances to knowledge.
Whatever is the impulse of avarice and so on
is to be regarded as the veil of the mental poisons.

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  1. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
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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. I follow MA/MB °śakyatva° against J °śaktatva°.
  5. Following DP and C, tatcitta° is to be emended to tannitya°.
  6. As V.14 explains, these refer to the three spheres of agent, object, and action.
  7. DP "conceptions" (ram tog).
  8. DP "miserliness" (ser sna).
  9. MA/MB cāsyā instead of J cāsya.
  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. 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.
  12. 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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