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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.66

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Verse IV.66 Variations

बुद्धानां नगरप्रवेशसमये चक्षुर्विहीना जनाः पश्यन्त्य् अर्थम् अनर्थजालविगमं विन्दन्ति तद्दर्शनात्
मोहान्धाश् च भवार्णवान्तरगता दृष्ट्यन्धकारावृता बुद्धार्कप्रभयावभासितधियः पश्यन्त्य् अदृष्टं पदम्

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

buddhānāṃ nagarapraveśasamaye cakṣurvihīnā janāḥ paśyanty artham anarthajālavigamaṃ vindanti taddarśanāt
mohāndhāś ca bhavārṇavāntaragatā dṛṣṭyandhakārāvṛtā buddhārkaprabhayāvabhāsitadhiyaḥ paśyanty adṛṣṭaṃ padam

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

སངས་རྒྱས་གྲོང་དུ་གཤེགས་ཚེ་མིག་དང་མི་ལྡན་པ་ཡི་སྐྱེ་བོ་རྣམས། །
མཐོང་ཞིང་དོན་མེད་ཚོགས་བྲལ་དོན་དེ་མཐོང་བ་ལས་ནི་མྱོང་བ་དང་། །
གཏི་མུག་གིས་ལྡོངས་སྲིད་པའི་མཚོར་ལྷུང་ལྟ་བའི་མུན་པས་བསྒྲིབས་པ་རྣམས། །
སངས་རྒྱས་ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཀྱིས་བློ་སྣང་མ་མཐོང་བ་ཡི་གནས་མཐོང་འགྱུར། །

Dege, PHI, 140

When the buddhas enter a city, people without eyes [can] see what is meaningful
And, by virtue of that seeing, know how to be free from the web of what is meaningless.
Also, the minds of those blinded by ignorance, who have fallen into the foaming sea of [saṃsāric] existence
And are obscured by the darkness of views, are illuminated by the sun of the Buddha and see matters unseen [before].

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 449

Quand le Bouddha se rend au village, les individus

privés de la vue voient.

Libérés de toute chose insensée, ils voient le sens et,

mieux, ils l’éprouvent.

Aveuglés par l’ignorance, les êtres aux prises avec l’océan des existences

sont enveloppés par les ténèbres des vues fausses,

Mais, à la lumière du soleil d’un bouddha, ils verront

ce que leur esprit ne pouvait pas voir jusque-là.

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

RGVV Commentary on Verse IV.66

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།འོད་ཀྱི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ཁྱད་པར་དུ་གྱུར་པ་ནི། ཞིང་ཀུན་ནམ་མཁའི་དཀྱིལ་འཕྲོ་ཉི་མ་ལ་མེད་ལ། །མི་ཤེས་མུན་བཀབ་ཤེས་བྱའི་དོན་སྟོན་པ་ཡང་མིན། །ཐུགས་རྗེའི་བདག་ཉིད་སྣ་ཚོགས་མདོག་བཀྱེའི་འོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས། །གསལ་བ་དག་ནི་{br}འགྲོ་ལ་ཤེས་བྱའི་དོན་སྟོན་མཛད། །སངས་རྒྱས་གྲོང་དུ་གཤེགས་ཚེ་མིག་དང་མི་ལྡན་པ་ཡི་སྐྱེ་བོ་རྣམས། །མཐོང་ཞིང་དོན་མེད་ཚོགས་བྲལ་དོན་དེ་མཐོང་བ་ལས་ནི་མྱོང་བ་དང་། །གཏི་མུག་གིས་ལྡོངས་སྲིད་པའི་མཚོར་ལྷུང་ལྟ་བའི་མུན་པས་བསྒྲིབས་པ་རྣམས། །སངས་རྒྱས་ཉི་{br}མའི་འོད་ཀྱིས་བློ་སྣང་མ་མཐོང་བ་ཡི་གནས་མཐོང་འགྱུར།

As for the orb of light [of the sun of the Buddha’s] being more eminent [than the actual sun]: P132a)

The sun does not pervade all realms or the [entire] sphere of the sky,

Nor does it show [all] knowable objects enveloped in the dense darkness of ignorance,

But those whose character is compassion illuminate the world and show [all] knowable objects

With an abundance of light rays that radiate in all kinds of colors and stream forth from each body hair. IV.65

When the buddhas enter a city, people without eyes [can] see what is meaningful

And, by virtue of that seeing, know how to be free from the web of what is meaningless.

Also, the minds of those blinded by ignorance, who have fallen into the foaming sea of [saṃsāric] existence

And are obscured by the darkness of views, are illuminated by the sun of the Buddha and see matters unseen [before]. IV.66

prabhāmaṇḍalaviśeṣaṇe /

sarvakṣetranabhastalaspharaṇatā bhānor na saṃvidyate nāpy ajñānatamo

’ndhakāragahanajñeyārthasaṃdarśanam /

nānāvarṇavikīrṇaraśmivisarair ekaikaromodbhavair bhāsante karuṇātmakā jagati tu

jñeyārthasaṃdarśakāḥ // 65 //

buddhānāṃ nagarapraveśasamaye cakṣurvihīnā janāḥ paśyanty artham anarthajālavigamaṃ

vindanti taddarśanāt /

mohāndhāś ca bhavārṇavāntaragatā dṛṣṭyandhakārāvṛtā buddhārkaprabhayāvabhāsitadhiyaḥ

paśyanty adṛṣṭaṃ padam // 66 //

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

The living beings who, at the time of the arrival of the Buddha,

Are like blind, obtain sight and, free from all harm,

Cognize the truth by this perception,

And those blinded by ignorance,

Who have fallen into the sea of worldly existence,

And are obscured by the darkness of false views,

Have their minds illuminated by the light of the sun of the Buddha

And come to perceive the Truth unseen before.

Takasaki (1966)

When the Buddhas enter the city,

Those who are of no eyes perceive the object,

And, having seen it, cognize how to remove the net of harm,

And [likewise] even those blinded by ignorance,

Who have fallen into the sea of the Phenomenal World,

And are obscured by the darkness of false views,

Have their intellect illumined by the light of the sun of the Buddha,

And come to perceive the Truth unseen before.

Fuchs (2000)

When a buddha goes to the city [of the disciples], people without

eyes become sighted.

Being freed from all meaningless things they see the meaningful and

experience [happiness].

When blinded by delusion they fall into existence's sea and are

wrapped in the darkness of views,

the light of the buddha sun illumines their vision and they see the

very point they never saw before.

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