Verse II.31
Verse II.31 Variations
सर्वज्ञज्ञानविषयं बुद्धत्वं ज्ञानदेहिभिः
sarvajñajñānaviṣayaṃ buddhatvaṃ jñānadehibhiḥ
།སངས་རྒྱས་ཤེས་གསུམ་ཡུལ་མིན་ཕྱིར།
།ཡེ་ཤེས་ལུས་ཅན་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ནི།
།བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་པར་རྟོགས་པར་བྱ།
Since it is not the object of the three wisdoms,
It is to be understood as being inconceivable
[Even] by people with wisdom.
- La bouddhéité est l’objet de l’omnisciente
- Sagesse primordiale et non des trois connaissances.
- Les êtres pourvus d’un corps de sagesse [autres que les bouddhas]
- Comprendront qu’elle est inconcevable.
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Obermiller (1931) [7]
- Buddhahood is accessible only to the Wisdom of the Omniscient,
- Is not the object of the 3 (kinds of ordinary) knowledge,
- Therefore those, endowed with spiritual bodies
- Cognize it as being inconceivable.
Takasaki (1966) [8]
- Buddhahood is accessible only to the Wisdom of the Omniscient,
- And is not the object of the 3 [kinds of ordinary] knowledge ,
- Therefore, it is to be known as 'inconceivable'
- [Even] for those people of intellect.
Fuchs (2000) [9]
- Being the object of the omniscient primordial wisdom,
- buddhahood is not an object for the three types of insight.
- So even those with a wisdom body must realize
- that [buddha enlightenment] is inconceivable.
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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.
- VT (fol. 14r6) glosses "the three wisdoms" as "those of study, reflection, and meditation" and "people with wisdom" as "śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas."
- VT (fol. 14r7) glosses °madhya° as °sthāna°, while Takasaki suggests the reading °sudma° instead of °madhya° (DP khyim).
- Skt. mṛdukarmaṇyabhāvāt. DP read "since it is nondual and workable" (gnyis med las su rung ba’i phyir).
- 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.