Verse V.16

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse V.16

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इतीदमाप्तागमयुक्तिसंश्रया-
दुदाहृतं केवलमात्मशुद्धये
धियाधिमुक्त्या कुशलोपसंपदा
समन्विता ये तदनुग्रहाय च

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[1]

itīdamāptāgamayuktisaṃśrayā-
dudāhṛtaṃ kevalamātmaśuddhaye
dhiyādhimuktyā kuśalopasaṃpadā
samanvitā ye tadanugrahāya ca

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[2]

།དེ་ལྟར་ཡིད་ཆེས་ལུང་དང་རིགས་པ་ལ།
།བརྟེན་ནས་བདག་ཉིད་འབའ་ཞིག་དག་ཕྱིར་དང་།
།གང་དག་མོས་དགེ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་ལྡན་བློ།
།དེ་དག་རྗེས་སུ་གཟུང་ཕྱིར་འདི་བཤད་དོ།

Dege, PHI, 144

Thus, on the basis of trustworthy scriptures and reasoning,
I expounded this [treatise] in order to purify just myself
And also for the sake of supporting those who are endowed
With intelligence, faith, and fulfillment of virtue.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 457 ^[3]

J’ai donné ces explications en m’aidant de textes

et de raisonnements dignes de confiance

Dans la seule intention de me purifier moi-même.

Je l’ai fait aussi pour prendre soin des êtres dont l’intelligence

Est dotée de la parfaite vertu de l’aspiration.

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

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།དེ་ལྟར་ཡིད་ཆེས་ལུང་དང་རིགས་པ་ལ། །བརྟེན་ནས་བདག་ཉིད་འབའ་ཞིག་དག་ཕྱིར་དང་། །གང་དག་མོས་དགེ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་ལྡན་བློ། །དེ་དག་རྗེས་སུ་གཟུང་ཕྱིར་འདི་བཤད་དོ། །ཇི་ལྟར་བཤད་པ་འདི་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། ཇི་ལྟར་སྒྲོན་གློག་ནོར་བུ་{br}ཉི་ཟླ་ལ། །བརྟེན་ནས་མིག་དང་ལྡན་པ་ལྟ་བ་བཞིན། །དེ་བཞིན་དོན་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྤོབས་འོད་མཛད་པ། །ཐུབ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་འདི་ནི་རབ་ཏུ་བཤད། །གང་བཤད་པ་དེ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། གང་ཞིག་དོན་ལྡན་ཆོས་དང་ཉེར་འབྲེལ་ཞིང་། །ཁམས་གསུམ་ཀུན་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་སྤོང་བྱེད་གསུང་། །{br}ཞི་བའི་ཕན་ཡོན་སྟོན་པར་མཛད་པ་གང་། །དེ་ནི་དྲང་སྲོང་གསུང་ཡིན་བཟློག་པ་གཞན། །གང་གིས་བཤད་པ་དེ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། གང་ཞིག་རྒྱལ་བའི་བསྟན་པ་འབའ་ཞིག་གིས། །དབང་བྱས་རྣམ་གཡེང་མེད་ཡིད་ཅན་གྱིས་བཤད། །ཐར་པ་ཐོབ་པའི་ལམ་དང་རྗེས་{br}མཐུན་པར། །དེ་ཡང་དྲང་སྲོང་བཀའ་བཞིན་སྤྱི་བོས་བླང་།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) ^[8]

Thus, on the foundation of authoritative Scriptures and of Logic

I have expounded (this treatise) in order to attain

Perfect purification, for myself, exclusively,

And to assist those whose mind is full of faith

And of the complement of highest virtue.

Takasaki (1966) ^[9]

Thus, on the basis of the authoritative Scripture and of Logic,

This treatise is expounded by me in order to attain

Perfect purification for myself, exclusively;

At the same time, however, this is in order to assist

Those intelligent people who are endowed with faith

And accomplishment of virtues.

Fuchs (2000) ^[10]

Based on the trustworthy words of the Buddha and on scriptures of logic,

I have explained this for the sole purpose

of purifying myself and supporting all those

whose understanding has the best of virtue and devotion.

Textual sources[edit]

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Academic notes[edit]

Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
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.
Following this verse, DP and C insert several headings that are absent in the Sanskrit (DP omits the first one here and also the one for V.25), but derived from V.26–28. When available, I follow the text of these headings in DP, with phrases in "( )"being added by the translator. The present heading is a slight modification of Takasaki (1966a, 384) according to the following headings in DP.
Skt. pratibhā, which can also mean "boldness" or "audacity"; thus DP "self-confidence" (spobs pa).
DP omit "the words of."
The words in "[ ]"are found in DP.
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.

[1] Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input

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[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] Following this verse, DP and C insert several headings that are absent in the Sanskrit (DP omits the first one here and also the one for V.25), but derived from V.26–28. When available, I follow the text of these headings in DP, with phrases in "( )"being added by the translator. The present heading is a slight modification of Takasaki (1966a, 384) according to the following headings in DP.

[5] Skt. pratibhā, which can also mean "boldness" or "audacity"; thus DP "self-confidence" (spobs pa).

[6] DP omit "the words of."

[7] The words in "[ ]"are found in DP.

[8] Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.

[9] 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.

[10] 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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+|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>
+:Thus, on the foundation of authoritative Scriptures and of Logic
+:I have expounded (this treatise) in order to attain
+:Perfect purification, for myself, exclusively,
+:And to assist those whose mind is full of faith
+:And of the complement of highest virtue.
+<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>
+:Thus, on the basis of the authoritative Scripture and of Logic,
+:This treatise is expounded by me in order to attain
+:Perfect purification for myself, exclusively;
+:At the same time, however, this is in order to assist
+:Those intelligent people who are endowed with faith
+:And accomplishment of virtues.
+<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>
+:Based on the trustworthy words of the Buddha and on scriptures of logic,
+:I have explained this for the sole purpose
+:of purifying myself and supporting all those
+:whose understanding has the best of virtue and devotion.
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