Verse IV.87
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::'''Resembling the earth, here, the buddhabhūmi is the abode of all | ::'''Resembling the earth, here, the buddhabhūmi is the abode of all | ||
::'''Pure dharmas that are the remedies for beings in every respect. IV.88 | ::'''Pure dharmas that are the remedies for beings in every respect. IV.88 | ||
+ | |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> | ||
+ | :Like Brahma, the Lord is motionless in the immaculate plane, | ||
+ | :But shows himself in many apparitional forms, | ||
+ | :Like the sun is the Divine Wisdom that ejects its light, | ||
+ | :And similar to the pure wish-fulfilling gem is the Buddha’s mind. | ||
+ | |||
+ | <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> | ||
+ | :Like Brahmā, the Buddha | ||
+ | :Shows himself variously with the apparitional forms, | ||
+ | :Without moving from the immaculate place; | ||
+ | :Like the sun, he shines always, spreading the light of Wisdom; | ||
+ | :And his mind [acts] like the wish-fulfilling gem. | ||
+ | |||
+ | <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> | ||
+ | :Like Brahma, not moving from his sphere devoid of pollution, | ||
+ | :he perfectly displays a manifold number of illusory appearances. | ||
+ | :Like a sun, primordial wisdom perfectly radiates its brilliance. | ||
+ | :Buddha mind resembles a pure and precious wish-fulfilling jewel. | ||
}} | }} |
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Verse IV.87 Variations
दनेकधा दर्शनमेति निर्मितैः
सदार्कवज्ज्ञानविनिःसृतद्युति-
र्विशुद्धचिन्तामणिरत्नमानसः
danekadhā darśanameti nirmitaiḥ
sadārkavajjñānaviniḥsṛtadyuti-
rviśuddhacintāmaṇiratnamānasaḥ
།སྤྲུལ་པ་རྣམ་པ་དུ་མ་རབ་ཏུ་སྟོན།
།ཉི་བཞིན་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྣང་བ་རབ་སྤྲོ་གང་།
།རྣམ་དག་རིན་ཆེན་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་འདྲའི་ཐུགས།
He displays himself by way of many kinds of emanations.
Similar to the sun, the brilliance of his wisdom always radiates.
His mind resembles a pure and precious wish-fulfilling jewel.
- Tel Brahma, il se manifeste dans de multiples apparitions
- sans quitter son séjour immaculé.
- Comme le soleil, il rayonne de l’éclat de la sagesse
- Et son esprit éveillé ressemble au très pur
- et très précieux Joyau magique.
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Obermiller (1931) [7]
- Like Brahma, the Lord is motionless in the immaculate plane,
- But shows himself in many apparitional forms,
- Like the sun is the Divine Wisdom that ejects its light,
- And similar to the pure wish-fulfilling gem is the Buddha’s mind.
Takasaki (1966) [8]
- Like Brahmā, the Buddha
- Shows himself variously with the apparitional forms,
- Without moving from the immaculate place;
- Like the sun, he shines always, spreading the light of Wisdom;
- And his mind [acts] like the wish-fulfilling gem.
Fuchs (2000) [9]
- Like Brahma, not moving from his sphere devoid of pollution,
- he perfectly displays a manifold number of illusory appearances.
- Like a sun, primordial wisdom perfectly radiates its brilliance.
- Buddha mind resembles a pure and precious wish-fulfilling jewel.
Textual sources[edit]
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Academic notes[edit]
- Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
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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.
- I follow MA divaukasāṃ (supported by DP lha yi) against J vibe rutam.
- "Infinite numbers of beings"could also be read as "the infinite universe."
- I follow MA/MB ghoṣo [’] nakṣaro [’]sau (supported by DP sung de . . . yi ge med) against J ghoṣo ’nakṣarokto.
- 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.
།དོན་འདི་ཉིད་ཀྱི་དབང་དུ་བྱས་ཏེ་དཔེ་བསྡུ་བའི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་བཞི་སྟེ། གང་ཞིག་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་རྔ་དང་སྤྲིན་བཞིན་དང་། །ཚངས་ཉི་རིན་ཆེན་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་རྒྱལ་བཞིན། །སྒྲ་སྙན་ནམ་མཁའ་ས་བཞིན་སྲིད་པའི་བར། །འབད་མེད་གཞན་དོན་བྱེད་དེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་རིག །{br}སྟོན་པ་རིན་ཆེན་ལྷ་དབང་གཟུགས་བརྙན་བཞིན། །ལེགས་པར་འདོམས་མཛད་ལྷ་ཡི་རྔ་དང་འདྲ། །ཁྱབ་བདག་མཁྱེན་དང་བརྩེ་ཆེན་སྤྲིན་ཚོགས་ནི། །མཐའ་ཡས་འགྲོ་བ་སྲིད་རྩེའི་བར་དུ་ཁྱབ། །ཚངས་བཞིན་ཟག་མེད་གནས་ལས་མ་བསྐྱོད་པར། །སྤྲུལ་པ་རྣམ་པ་དུ་མ་རབ་ཏུ་{br}སྟོན། །ཉི་བཞིན་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྣང་བ་རབ་སྤྲོ་གང་། །རྣམ་དག་རིན་ཆེན་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་འདྲའི་ཐུགས། །རྒྱལ་བ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གསུང་དེ་བྲག་ཅ་བཞིན་དུ་ཡི་གེ་མེད། །སྐུ་ནི་ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན་དུ་ཁྱབ་དང་གཟུགས་མེད་རྟག་པ་ཉིད། །ས་བཞིན་འགྲོ་བ་དཀར་པོའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྨན་རྣམས་མ་ལུས་{br}པའི། །རྣམ་པ་ཀུན་དུ་གཞིར་གྱུར་པ་ནི་སངས་རྒྱས་ས་ཡིན་ནོ།