Verse II.67
Verse II.67 Variations
नित्यमशरणानां च शरणाभ्युपपत्तितः
nityamaśaraṇānāṃ ca śaraṇābhyupapattitaḥ
།ཐུབ་པ་གདོད་ནས་རབ་ཞིའི་ཕྱིར།
།རྟག་པ་སྐྱབས་མེད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ནི།
།སྐྱབས་ལ་སོགས་པར་འཐད་ཕྱིར་རོ།
Is unconditioned, being primordially at peace,
And by virtue of being tenable as the refuge and so on
Of those without refuge, [the Buddha] is permanent.
- Parce que, inconditionné par nature,
- Le sage est apaisé dès l’origine
- Et parce qu’il est logique qu’il soit le refuge
- De ceux qui n’ont pas de refuge permanent.
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Obermiller (1931) [9]
- Therefore, the Lord, being of an immutable nature,
- Is perfectly quiescent from the outset.
- Thus, eternal,he is fit to be
- A refuge for the helpless and the like.一
Takasaki (1966) [10]
- Being of an immutable nature,
- The Lord is perfectly pacified from the outset;
- And he gives a refuge for those who have no shelter,
- Because of these [10] points, he is 'eternal'.
Fuchs (2000) [11]
- The state of the Muni being of uncreated nature
- has been fully pacified since beginningless time.
- For all those who are bereft of permanent shelter
- it provides the most delightful refuge, and so on.
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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.
- As will be seen in the text below, in verses II.63–68, two lines each correspond to the ten reasons in II.62 for buddhahood’s being permanent, with "protector of the world"in II.62d (VT fol. 14v6: lokanāthatvāt) being considered the tenth reason.
- I follow MB °pādapraṇetuś ca against J pādaprakāśāc ca.
- The phrase in "[ ]" is found in C.
- I follow VT (fol. 14v6) °śaraṇādyutpattitaḥ against MB and J °śaraṇābhyupapattitaḥ (confirmed by DP skyabs la sogs pa ’thad phyir ro). VT furthermore glosses "refuge" as "dharmakāya, sambhogakāya, nirmāṇakāya."
- . I follow MB nityatāśaraṇānāṃ (confirmed by VT, fol. 14v6) against J nityam aśaraṇānāṃ.
- 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.