Verse II.5

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As for its being said [above] that "purity is the nature of the fundamental change," here, in brief, purity is twofold—natural purity and the purity (P121a) of being without stains. Here, natural purity is [in itself] liberation, but it is not [yet] freed because the '''luminous''' nature of the mind has not become freed from '''adventitious''' stains. The purity of being '''without stains''' is [both] liberation and freed because the '''luminous''' nature of the mind has become freed from all '''adventitious''' stains without exception, just as water and so on [having become freed from] the stains of silt and so on.<ref>I follow MA/MB ''rajomalādibhyaḥ'' against J ''rajojalādibhyaḥ''. </ref>
 
As for its being said [above] that "purity is the nature of the fundamental change," here, in brief, purity is twofold—natural purity and the purity (P121a) of being without stains. Here, natural purity is [in itself] liberation, but it is not [yet] freed because the '''luminous''' nature of the mind has not become freed from '''adventitious''' stains. The purity of being '''without stains''' is [both] liberation and freed because the '''luminous''' nature of the mind has become freed from all '''adventitious''' stains without exception, just as water and so on [having become freed from] the stains of silt and so on.<ref>I follow MA/MB ''rajomalādibhyaḥ'' against J ''rajojalādibhyaḥ''. </ref>
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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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:It is radiant and uncreated,
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:It manifests itself in its indivisible essence,
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:And is possessed of all the properties of the Buddha,
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:Which excel in their number the sands of the Ganges.
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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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:It is endowed with all the properties of the Buddha,
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:Which are beyond the sands of the Gaṅgā in number,
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:And are radiant and of uncreated nature,
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:And whose manifestations are indivisible [from itself].
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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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:Luminous clear light is not created.
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:It is indivisibly manifest [in the nature of beings]
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:and holds all the buddha properties
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:outnumbering the grains of sand in the river Ganges.
 
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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse II.5

Verse II.5 Variations

गङ्गातीररजोऽतीतैर्बुद्धधर्मैः प्रभास्वरैः
सर्वैरकृतकैर्युक्तमविनिर्भागवृतिभिः
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
gaṅgātīrarajo'tītairbuddhadharmaiḥ prabhāsvaraiḥ
sarvairakṛtakairyuktamavinirbhāgavṛtibhiḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
།འོད་གསལ་བྱས་མིན་དབྱེར་མེད་པར།
།འཇུག་ཅན་གང་གཱའི་ཀླུང་གི་ནི།
།རྡུལ་ལས་འདས་ཕྱིར་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི།
།ཆོས་རྣམས་ཀུན་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཉིད།
Dege, PHI, 124
It possesses all the buddha attributes
Which are beyond the sands of the river Gaṅgā [in number],
Luminous, unproduced,
And manifesting in an inseparable manner.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 417 [3]
Luminosité incomposée,
Inséparable de ses manifestations,
Elle est dotée de toutes les qualités des bouddhas,
Plus nombreuses que les grains de sable du Gange.
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་འདིའི་དོན་ནི་མདོར་བསྡུ་ན་{br}ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་བཞིས་རིག་པར་བྱ་སྟེ། སངས་རྒྱས་ཉིད་ནི་དབྱེར་མེད་པ། །དག་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱིས་རབ་དབྱེ་བ། །ཉི་མཁའ་བཞིན་དུ་ཡེ་ཤེས་དང་། །སྤངས་པ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་མཚན་ཉིད་དོ། །འོད་གསལ་བྱས་མིན་དབྱེར་མེད་པར། །གཟུགས་ཅན་གང་གཱའི་ཀླུང་གི་ནི། །རྡུལ་ལས་{br}འདས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི། །ཆོས་རྣམས་ཀུན་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཉིད། །རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་ནི་མ་གྲུབ་དང་། །ཁྱབ་དང་གློ་བུར་བ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས། །ཉོན་མོངས་ཤེས་བྱའི་སྒྲིབ་པ་དེ། །སྤྲིན་དང་འདྲ་བར་བརྗོད་པ་ཡིན། །སྒྲིབ་པ་གཉིས་དང་བྲལ་བ་ཡི། །རྒྱུ་ནི་ཡེ་ཤེས་གཉིས་ཡིན་ཏེ། །མི་རྟོག་པ་དང་དེ་{br}ཡི་ནི། །རྗེས་ཐོབ་དེ་ནི་ཡེ་ཤེས་འདོད། །རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་ནི་གནས་ཡོངས་སུ་གྱུར་པའི་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ཡིན་ནོ། །ཞེས་བརྗོད་པ་གང་ཡིན་པ་དེ་ལ་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་ནི་མདོར་བསྡུ་ན་རྣམ་པ་གཉིས་ཏེ། རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་དང་། དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་རྣམ་པར་དག་པའོ། །དེ་ལ་རང་བཞིན་{br}གྱིས་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་ནི། གང་ཞིག་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བ་དང་བྲལ་བ་ནི་མ་ཡིན་པ་སྟེ། སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་འོད་གསལ་བ་གློ་བུར་གྱི་དྲི་མ་དང་མ་བྲལ་བའི་ཕྱིར་རོ། །དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་ནི། རྡུལ་ལ་སོགས་པ་ལ་ཆུ་ལ་སོགས་པ་བཞིན་དུ་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བ་དང་བྲལ་བ་སྟེ། སེམས་ཀྱི་{br}རང་བཞིན་འོད་གསལ་བ་ལ་གློ་བུར་གྱི་དྲི་མ་མཐའ་དག་དང་བྲལ་བའི་ཕྱིར་རོ།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [7]
It is radiant and uncreated,
It manifests itself in its indivisible essence,
And is possessed of all the properties of the Buddha,
Which excel in their number the sands of the Ganges.
Takasaki (1966) [8]
It is endowed with all the properties of the Buddha,
Which are beyond the sands of the Gaṅgā in number,
And are radiant and of uncreated nature,
And whose manifestations are indivisible [from itself].
Fuchs (2000) [9]
Luminous clear light is not created.
It is indivisibly manifest [in the nature of beings]
and holds all the buddha properties
outnumbering the grains of sand in the river Ganges.

Textual sources[edit]

Commentaries on this verse[edit]

Academic notes[edit]

  1. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  2. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  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. VT (fol. 14r3) relates "two"to "relinquishment,"referring to the characteristic of the elimination of afflictive and cognitive obscurations.
  5. I follow MA/MB tasmin against J tasmān.
  6. I follow MA/MB rajomalādibhyaḥ against J rajojalādibhyaḥ.
  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.

āgantukamala - Mental stains that are not inherent to the nature of the mind but are temporarily present as the residue of past actions or habitual tendencies. It is sometimes iterated as adventitious defilements (Skt. āgantukakleśa, Tib. glo bur gyi nyon mongs), which references the fickle and temporary nature of disturbing emotions that lack an ultimately established basis for existence. Skt. आगन्तुकमल Tib. གློ་བུར་གྱི་དྲི་མ་

āvaraṇa - Literally, that which obscures or conceals. Often listed as a set of two obscurations (sgrib gnyis): the afflictive emotional obscurations (Skt. kleśāvaraṇa, Tib. nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa) and the cognitive obscurations (Skt. jñeyāvaraṇa, Tib. shes bya'i sgrib pa). By removing the first, one becomes free of suffering, and by removing the second, one becomes omniscient. Skt. आवरण Tib. སྒྲིབ་པ་

prabhāsvaratā - In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas. Skt. प्रभास्वर Tib. འོད་གསལ་ Ch. 光明

prabhāsvaratā - In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas. Skt. प्रभास्वर Tib. འོད་གསལ་ Ch. 光明

Uttaratantra - The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra. Skt. उत्तरतन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ Ch. 寶性論

These are the root verses of the Uttaratantra attributed to Maitreya by the Tibetan tradition.

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