Verse IV.73

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.73

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Verse IV.73 Variations

निष्किंचने निराभासे निरालम्बे निराश्रये
चक्षुष्पथव्यतिक्रान्तेऽप्यरूपिण्यनिदर्शने

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

niṣkiṃcane nirābhāse nirālambe nirāśraye
cakṣuṣpathavyatikrānte'pyarūpiṇyanidarśane

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

།ཅུང་ཟད་མེད་ཅིང་སྣང་བ་མེད།
།དམིགས་པ་མེད་ཅིང་རྟེན་མེད་ལ།
།མིག་གི་ལམ་ལས་རབ་འདས་པ།
།གཟུགས་མེད་བསྟན་དུ་མེད་པ་ཡི།

Dege, PHI, 140

Though it is insubstantial, without appearance,
Without support, without basis,
Beyond the pathway of the eyes,
Formless, and indemonstrable,

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 450 ^[3]

Immatériel, inapparent,

Introuvable, sans appui,

Bien au-delà du visible,

Sans forme, impossible à montrer,

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

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།ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། ཅུང་ཟད་མེད་ཅིང་སྣང་བ་མེད། །དམིགས་པ་མེད་ཅིང་རྟེན་མེད་ལ། །མིག་གི་ལམ་ལས་རབ་འདས་པ། །གཟུགས་མེད་{br}བསྟན་དུ་མེད་པ་ཡི། །མཁའ་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་མཐོ་དང་དམའ། །མཐོང་ཡང་དེ་ནི་དེ་ལྟར་མིན། །དེ་བཞིན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ། །མཐོང་ཡང་དེ་ནི་དེ་ལྟར་མིན།

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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.
Jñānālokālaṃkārasūtra, D100, fols. 288b.4–289a.5.
Skt. niṣkiṃcane nirābhāse nirālambe nirāśraye / cakṣuṣpathavyatikrānte ’py arūpiṇy anidarśane /. Note that this list is very similar to the list of the characteristics of non-conceptual wisdom in the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga and Vasubandhu’s commentary on it (arūpy anidarśanam apratiṣṭham anābhāsam avijñaptikam aniketam), which is also found in the Avikalpapraveśadhāraṇī (Matsuda 1996, 96.5–6; D142, fol. 3b.4) and the Kāśyapaparivarta (Friedrich Weller, trans., Zum Kāśyapaparivarta [Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1965], 2:97). The Tibetan versified version of the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga and all versions of Vasubandhu’s commentary read brtag tu med pa for arūpi, thus indicating that term’s meaning "ungraspable." The same may apply here too for arūpiṇi (thus, "formless"would be "ungraspable").

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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] Jñānālokālaṃkārasūtra, D100, fols. 288b.4–289a.5.

[5] Skt. niṣkiṃcane nirābhāse nirālambe nirāśraye / cakṣuṣpathavyatikrānte ’py arūpiṇy anidarśane /. Note that this list is very similar to the list of the characteristics of non-conceptual wisdom in the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga and Vasubandhu’s commentary on it (arūpy anidarśanam apratiṣṭham anābhāsam avijñaptikam aniketam), which is also found in the Avikalpapraveśadhāraṇī (Matsuda 1996, 96.5–6; D142, fol. 3b.4) and the Kāśyapaparivarta (Friedrich Weller, trans., Zum Kāśyapaparivarta [Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1965], 2:97). The Tibetan versified version of the Dharmadharmatāvibhāga and all versions of Vasubandhu’s commentary read brtag tu med pa for arūpi, thus indicating that term’s meaning "ungraspable." The same may apply here too for arūpiṇi (thus, "formless"would be "ungraspable").

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