Verse I.42
From Buddha-Nature
Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.42
Verse I.42 Variations
महोदधिरिवामेयगुणरत्नाक्षयाकरः
प्रदीपवदनिर्भागगुणयुक्तस्वभावतः
प्रदीपवदनिर्भागगुणयुक्तस्वभावतः
mahodadhirivāmeyaguṇaratnākṣayākaraḥ
pradīpavadanirbhāgaguṇayuktasvabhāvataḥ
pradīpavadanirbhāgaguṇayuktasvabhāvataḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེ་བཞིན་དཔག་མེད་པའི།
།ཡོན་ཏན་རིན་ཆེན་མི་ཟད་གནས།
།དབྱེར་མེད་ཡོན་ཏན་དང་ལྡན་པའི།
།ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ཕྱིར་མར་མེ་བཞིན།
།ཡོན་ཏན་རིན་ཆེན་མི་ཟད་གནས།
།དབྱེར་མེད་ཡོན་ཏན་དང་ལྡན་པའི།
།ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ཕྱིར་མར་མེ་བཞིན།
Just like the ocean, [the disposition of the victors] is an inexhaustible source
Of immeasurable jewels [in the form of its] qualities.
Just like a lamp, it is endowed with
Inseparable qualities by its nature.
Of immeasurable jewels [in the form of its] qualities.
Just like a lamp, it is endowed with
Inseparable qualities by its nature.
- Source inépuisable de joyaux aux qualités infinies,
- [L’Élément] ressemble au Grand Océan.
- On le compare aussi à une lampe car, en essence,
- Il possède d’indissociables qualités.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
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Other English translations[edit]
Obermiller (1931) [3]
- (The Essence of the Buddha) is like the Great Ocean
- Being the inexhaustible repository of jewels—its sublime properties;
- It is (moreover) like a light, since, by its nature
- It is endowed with properties indivisible (from it).
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Being the inexhaustible storage of jewels of immeasurable virtues,
- [The Germ of the Buddha is] like the Ocean;
- It is akin to the lantern, because of its nature of
- Being endowed with properties indivisible [from it].
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Like the great sea it holds qualities
- immeasurable, precious, and inexhaustible.
- Its essence holds indivisible properties.
- Thus [the element] is similar to a lamp.
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Academic notes[edit]
- 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.
- 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.
།དེ་ལ་ལྡན་པའི་དོན་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། {br}རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེ་བཞིན་དཔག་མེད་པའི། །ཡོན་ཏན་རིན་ཆེན་མི་ཟད་གནས། །དབྱེར་མེད་ཡོན་ཏན་དང་ལྡན་པའི། །ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ཕྱིར་མར་མེ་བཞིན།