Verse V.3
Verse V.3 Variations
बुद्धक्षेत्ररजःसमान्यहरहो धर्मेश्वरेभ्यः सदा
यश्चान्यः शृणुयादितः पदमपि श्रुत्वाधिमुच्येदयं
तस्माद्दानमयाच्छुंभाद्बहुतरं पुण्यं समासादयेत्
buddhakṣetrarajaḥsamānyaharaho dharmeśvarebhyaḥ sadā
yaścānyaḥ śṛṇuyāditaḥ padamapi śrutvādhimucyedayaṃ
tasmāddānamayācchuṃbhādbahutaraṃ puṇyaṃ samāsādayet
།སངས་རྒྱས་ཞིང་རྡུལ་མཉམ་པ་ཉིན་རེ་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་རྣམས་ལ་རྟག་འབུལ་ན།
།གཞན་གང་འདི་ལས་ཚིག་ཙམ་ཐོས་ཤིང་ཐོས་ནས་ཀྱང་ནི་མོས་ན་འདི།
།སྦྱིན་པ་ལས་བྱུང་དགེ་བ་དེ་ལས་བསོད་ནམས་ཆེས་མང་ཐོབ་པར་འགྱུར།
Equal [in number] to the particles in [all] buddha realms, to the lords of dharma always, day after day,
While some others were to hear [just] one word of this [dharma] and, upon hearing it, would have faith in it—
The latter would attain far more merit than the virtue arising from such generosity.
- Imaginez un être attiré par l’Éveil qui offrirait constamment
- aux souverains du Dharma,
- Jour après jour, des champs d’or incrustés de joyaux
- en nombre égal aux atomes de tous les champs de bouddhas.
- Imaginez maintenant un autre être qui n’aurait entendu
- qu’un seul mot [du présent traité] et qu’en l’entendant il y ait cru
- Cet être en tirera beaucoup plus de mérites qu’on en tirera
- de la vertu de générosité [ci-dessus évoquée].
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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.
- I follow VT (fol. 16v7) caturṣu sthāneṣv (supported by DP and C) instead of just sthāneṣv. These four points are vajra points 4 through 7—the tathāgata heart, awakening, its qualities, and its activity.
- DP "those with pure minds" (dagga pa’i seems).
- Instead of °buddhi, DP read "buddha qualities" (snags rgyas yon tan) in the next line.
- VT (fol. 16v7) glosses "this" as "the discussion of the doctrine that explicitly speaks of the buddha element and so on."
- "The meditative states of the gods"refers to the four dhyānas and the four formless absorptions, while the four brahmāvihāras are the four immeasurables of love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity that lead to rebirth as the god Mahābrahmā.
- With Schmithausen, I follow MB and J saṃbodhyupāyācyutaḥ (supported by DP rdzogs pa’i byang chub ’pho med thabs bsgoms la) against MA saṃbodhyupāyāc cyutaḥ, whose meaning is also found in C.