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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse V.14

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त्रिमण्डलविकल्पो यस्तज्ज्ञेयावरणं मतम्
मात्सर्यादिविपक्षो यस्तत् क्लेशावरणं मतम्

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

trimaṇḍalavikalpo yastajjñeyāvaraṇaṃ matam
mātsaryādivipakṣo yastat kleśāvaraṇaṃ matam

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

།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

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། །

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ཐོས་པ་དེ་ཕྱིར་ཐོས་པ་མཆོག

(1) [This sūtra] says that [buddha activity] resembles the appearance of Śakra.

Suppose the ground of the earth

Consisted of pure beryl

And, due to its clarity, one would see in it

The chief of gods with his host of apsaras IV.14

As well as his palace Vaijayanta,

Celestial dwellers other than him,

Their various palaces,

And their divine abundances. IV.15

Upon that, the assemblies of men and women P128b)

Who dwell on the ground of the earth

Would take sight of this appearance

And make the following prayer: IV.16

"May we too before long

Become like that lord of gods!"

Then, in order to attain that [state], (D123a)

They would immerse themselves in adopting virtue. IV.17

Though being unaware that this

Was merely an appearance, they would pass away

From the earth and be born in heaven

By virtue of their pure karma. IV.18

Though this appearance would be absolutely

Without thought and without activity,

Its taking place on the earth in that way

Would nevertheless be of great benefit. IV.19

Likewise, sentient beings see in their own mind,

Once it is stainless through confidence and such

And has cultivated the qualities such as confidence,

The appearance of the perfect Buddha, IV.20

Who is endowed with the major and minor marks,

Performs the various forms of conduct

(Walking, standing,

Sitting, and lying), IV.21 (J101)

Speaks the dharma of peace,

Rests silently in meditative equipoise,

Demonstrates all kinds of miraculous displays,

And possesses great splendor. IV.22

Having seen it, those who long for it

Devote their efforts to this buddhahood

And, through adopting its causes,

Attain the state they wish for. IV.23

Though this appearance is absolutely

Without thought and without activity,

Its taking place in the worlds

Is nevertheless of great benefit. IV.24

Ordinary beings do not understand

That this is an appearance in their own minds.

Nevertheless, to see this image

Becomes fruitful for them. IV.25

Gradually, based on seeing that [appearance],

Those who dwell in this method

See the inner kāya of the genuine dharma

Through their eye of wisdom. IV.26

Suppose the earth became completely free from all uneven places, gaps, and dirt

And were a surface of clear and spotless beryl, with the stainless qualities of a jewel, splendid, and even.

Due to its purity, a reflection of the array of the abode of the lord of gods, Indra [himself], and the maruts would appear in it,

But since the earth would gradually lose those qualities, (P129a) [that reflection] would disappear again. IV.27

In order [to attain] this state, the assemblies of men and women who are devoted to generosity and such,

Through observing the rules of fasting and spiritual discipline and with a determined mind, would strew flowers and so on.

Likewise, for the sake of attaining the reflection of the lord of sages in their minds, which resemble a transparent beryl,

The children of the victors give rise to the mind-sets [of awakening] with a joyful mind. IV.28

Just as on the pure ground of beryl (D123b)

The reflection of the body of the lord of gods appears,

On the pure ground of the minds of beings,

The reflection of the body of the lord of sages is displayed. IV.29 (J102)

The appearance and disappearance of this reflection manifests in the world

Through the power of one’s own mind manifesting in a clear or turbid way.

Just as the appearance of a reflection in the worlds::,

It should not be regarded as either real or unreal. IV.30

eṣā ślokānāṃ piṇḍārtho navabhiḥ ślokairveditavyaḥ/

āśraye tatparāvṛttau tadguṇeṣvarthasādhane/

caturvidhe jinajñānaviṣaye'smin yathodite//7//

dhimānastitvaśaktatvaguṇavattvā dhimuktitaḥ/

tathāgatapadaprāptibhavyatāmāśu gacchati//8//

astyasau viṣayo'cintyaḥ śakyaḥ prāptuṃ sa mādṛśaiḥ/

prāpta evaṃguṇaścāsāviti śraddhādhimuktitaḥ//9//

chandavīryasmṛtidhyānaprajñādiguṇabhājanam/

bodhicittaṃ bhavatyasya satataṃ pratyapasthitam//10//

taccittapratyupasthānādavivartyo jinātmajaḥ/

puṇyapāramitāpūripariśuddhiṃ nigacchati//11//

puṇyaṃ pāramitāḥ pañca tredhā tadavikalpanāt/

tatpūriḥ pariśuddhistu tad vipakṣaprahāṇataḥ//12//

dānaṃ dānamayaṃ puṇyaṃ śīlaṃ śīlamayaṃ smṛtam/

dve bhāvanāmayaṃ kṣāntidhyāne vīryaṃ tu sarvagam//13//

trimaṇḍalavikalpo yastajjñeyāvaraṇaṃ matam/

mātsaryādivipakṣo yastat kleśāvaraṇaṃ matam//14//

etatprahāṇahetuśca nānyaḥ prajñāmṛte tataḥ/

śreṣṭhā prajñā śrutaṃ cāsya mūlaṃ tasmācchrutaṃ param//15//

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