Verse I.123

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|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 398-399 <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]], 398-399 <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=[In the eighth example,] the afflictions are like a pregnant woman, while the tathāgata element resembles a cakravartin’s having entered the great elements a short time after conception.
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::'''Suppose an ugly woman without a protector''',<ref>In India, this means abandoned by one’s husband or being a widow. </ref> {P112b}
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::'''Dwelling in a shelter for those without protection'''
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::'''And bearing the glory of royalty as an embryo''',<ref>DP lit. "by the womb" (''mngal gyis''). However, as the next verse shows, ''garbha'' here clearly refers to the embryo of the cakravartin. </ref>
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::'''Were not to know about the king in her own womb.''' I.121
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::'''Being born in [saṃsāric] existence is like a place for those without protection''',
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'''Impure sentient beings<ref>VT (fol. 13v4) glosses "impure sentient beings" as "those who engage in wrongdoing" (''pāpācārāḥ'').</ref> resemble the pregnant woman''',
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::'''The stainless basic element in them is similar to her embryo''',
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::'''And due to its existence, these [beings] do have a protector'''. I.122
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::'''Just as this woman whose body is covered with a dirty garment and who has an unsightly body'''
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::'''Would experience the greatest suffering in a shelter for those without protection despite this king’s residing in her womb,'''
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::'''So beings dwell in the abode of suffering due to their minds’ not being at peace through the power of the afflictions'''
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::'''And deem themselves to be without a protector despite the excellent protectors<ref> VT (fol. 13v4) glosses ''sannāthāḥ'' as ''santaś cāmī nāthāś ca'', while DP only have ''moon bcas'' (corresponding to ''sanātha'').</ref> residing right within themselves'''. I.123
 
|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>
 
|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 a woman of ugly appearance, covered with a foul-smelling garment
 
:As a woman of ugly appearance, covered with a foul-smelling garment

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.123

Verse I.123 Variations

यद्वत् स्त्री मलिनाम्वरावृततनुर्बीभत्सरूपान्विता
विन्देद्‍दुःखमनाथवेश्मनि परं गर्भान्तरस्थे नृपे
तद्वत् क्लेशवशादशान्तमनसो दुःखालयस्था जनाः
सन्नाथेषु च सत्स्वनाथमतयः स्वात्मान्तरस्थेष्वपि
yadvat strī malināmvarāvṛtatanurbībhatsarūpānvitā
vindedduḥkhamanāthaveśmani paraṃ garbhāntarasthe nṛpe
tadvat kleśavaśādaśāntamanaso duḥkhālayasthā janāḥ
sannātheṣu ca satsvanāthamatayaḥ svātmāntarastheṣvapi
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།ཇི་ལྟར་བུད་མེད་ལུས་ལ་དྲི་བཅས་གོས་གྱོན་མི་སྡུག་གཟུགས་ལྡན་པ།
།ས་བདག་མངལ་ན་གནས་ཀྱང་མགོན་མེད་ཁང་པར་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མཆོག་མྱོང་ལྟར།
།དེ་བཞིན་བདག་རང་ནང་གནས་མགོན་ཡོད་གྱུར་ཀྱང་མགོན་མེད་བློ་ལྡན་པ།
།འགྲོ་བ་ཉོན་མོངས་དབང་གིས་ཡིད་མ་ཞི་བས་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གཞི་ལ་གནས།
Dege, PHI, 119-120
Just as this woman whose body is covered with a dirty garment and who has an unsightly body
Would experience the greatest suffering in a shelter for those without protection despite this king’s residing in her womb,
So beings dwell in the abode of suffering due to their minds’ not being at peace through the power of the afflictions
And deem themselves to be without a protector despite the excellent protectors residing right within themselves.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 398-399 [2]
La femme laide dans ses vêtements sales
a beau porter un monarque en son sein,
Elle n’en subit pas moins les pires souffrances
dans un asile pour les déshérités.
De même, les êtres qui, sous l’emprise des affections,
n’ont pas l’esprit en paix
Restent sur le terrain de la souffrance et se sentent abandonnés
malgré le protecteur qu’ils portent en eux.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ནི་སེམས་ཅན་ཞུགས་པའི་མི་མོ་དང་འདྲ་ལ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་ཁམས་ནི་མེར་མེར་པོའི་འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་གནས་པའི་འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར་བ་ལྟ་བུ་སྟེ། ཇི་ལྟར་མི་མོ་གཟུགས་ངན་མགོན་{br}མེད་འགའ། །མགོན་མེད་འདུག་གནས་སུ་ནི་འདུག་གྱུར་ལ། །མངལ་གྱིས་རྒྱལ་པོའི་དཔལ་ནི་འཛིན་བྱེད་པས། །རང་ལྟོ་ན་ཡོད་མི་བདག་མི་ཤེས་ལྟར། །སྲིད་པར་སྐྱེ་བ་མགོན་མེད་ཁྱིམ་བཞིན་ཏེ། །མ་དག་སེམས་ཅན་མངལ་ལྡན་བུད་མེད་བཞིན། །དེ་ལ་གང་ཞིག་ཡོད་{br}པས་མགོན་བཅས་པ། །དྲི་མེད་ཁམས་ནི་དེ་ཡི་མངལ་གནས་བཞིན། །ཇི་ལྟར་བུད་མེད་ལུས་ལ་དྲི་བཅས་གོས་གོན་མི་སྡུག་གཟུགས་ལྡན་པ། །ས་བདག་མངལ་ན་གནས་ཀྱང་མགོན་མེད་ཁང་པར་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མཆོག་མྱོང་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་བདག་རང་ནང་གནས་མགོན་ཡོད་གྱུར་ཀྱང་{br}མགོན་མེད་བློ་ལྡན་པ། །འགྲོ་བ་ཉོན་མོངས་དབང་གིས་ཡིད་མ་ཞི་བས་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བཞི་ལ་གནས།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [7]
As a woman of ugly appearance, covered with a foul-smelling garment
Experiences the greatest suffering in a place without shelter,
Though the Lord of the Earth abides in her own womb;
In a like way the living beings whose spirit is helpless,
Though the protection exists within themselves,
Abide amidst sufferings, their minds being troubled by the passions.
Takasaki (1966) [8]
Just as a woman, whose body is covered with a dirty garment
And having ugly features, experiences in an orphanage,
The greatest pain when the king is in her womb;
Similarly the living beings abiding in the house of misery,
And whose mind is not quiet by the power of Defilements,
Imagine themselves without a protector
Though the good protectors are residing in their own bodies.
Fuchs (2000) [9]
A ruler of the earth dwells in the womb of a woman who has an
unpleasant appearance and whose body is dressed in dirty clothes.
Nevertheless she has [to abide] in a poorhouse and undergo the
experience of direst suffering.
Likewise, beings deem themselves unsheltered though a protector
resides within their own [minds].
Thus they have to abide in the ground of suffering, their minds being
unpeaceful under the predominating drive of the mental poisons.

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  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. In India, this means abandoned by one’s husband or being a widow.
  4. DP lit. "by the womb" (mngal gyis). However, as the next verse shows, garbha here clearly refers to the embryo of the cakravartin.
  5. VT (fol. 13v4) glosses "impure sentient beings" as "those who engage in wrongdoing" (pāpācārāḥ).
  6. VT (fol. 13v4) glosses sannāthāḥ as santaś cāmī nāthāś ca, while DP only have moon bcas (corresponding to sanātha).
  7. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  8. 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.
  9. 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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