Verse I.87

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.87

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Verse I.87 Variations

सर्वाकाराभिसंबोधिः सवासनमल्लोद्धृतिः
बुद्धत्वमथ निर्वाणमद्वयं परमार्थतः

sarvākārābhisaṃbodhiḥ savāsanamalloddhṛtiḥ
buddhatvamatha nirvāṇamadvayaṃ paramārthataḥ

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

།རྣམ་ཀུན་མངོན་རྫོགས་བྱང་ཆུབ་དང་།
།དྲི་མ་བག་ཆགས་བཅས་སྤངས་པ།
།སངས་རྒྱས་མྱ་ངན་འདས་པ་ནི།
།དམ་པའི་དོན་དུ་གཉིས་མེད་ཉིད།

Dege, PHI, 116

Being the fully perfect awakening in all aspects
And the removal of [all] stains and their latent tendencies,
Buddhahood and nirvāṇa
Ultimately are not two.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 389 ^[2]

Éveil manifeste et parfait à toutes choses

Et élimination des souillures avec leurs imprégnations –

Le bouddha et le nirvāṇa

Au sens sacré ne sont pas deux.

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 Perfect Supreme Enlightenment,

And the rejection of all defilement with its residues,—

The Buddha and his Nirvāṇa

Are one in the aspect of the Absolute.

Takasaki (1966) ^[4]

Being the Perfect Enlightenment in all aspects,

And being the removal of pollutions along their root,

Buddhahood and Nirvāṇa

Are one and the same in the highest viewpoint.

Fuchs (2000) ^[5]

Direct perfect enlightenment [with regard to] all aspects,

and abandonment of the stains along with their imprints

[are called] buddha and nirvana respectively.

In truth, these are not two different things.

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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.

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

[4] 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.

[5] 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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