Verse I.41

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.41

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भवनिर्वाणतद्‍दुःखसुखदोषगुणेक्षणम्
गोत्रे सति भवत्येतदगोत्राणां न विद्यते

bhavanirvāṇatadduḥkhasukhadoṣaguṇekṣaṇam
gotre sati bhavatyetadagotrāṇāṃ na vidyate

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

།སྲིད་དང་མྱ་ངན་འདས་ལ་དེའི།
།སྡུག་བདེའི་སྐྱོན་ཡོན་མཐོང་བ་འདི།
།རིགས་ཡོད་ལས་ཡིན་གང་ཕྱིར་དེ།
།རིགས་མེད་དག་ལ་མེད་ཕྱིར་རོ།

Dege, PHI, 187

This seeing of the flaws of suffering and the qualities of happiness
In saṃsāric existence and nirvāṇa
Occurs only when the disposition exists
Because it does not occur in those without the disposition.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 368 ^[2]

Le fait de voir que le saṃsāra a pour défaut la souffrance

Et que le nirvāṇa a pour qualité le bonheur

Est dû à la présence de la filiation spirituelle –

Ce n’est pas le cas chez ceux qui en sont dépourvus.

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

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Holmes (1985) ^[3]

Perception of suffering, saṃsāra 's fault,

and happiness, nirvāṇa's quality,

is due to the potential's presence.

Why should this be?

Without such potential

It will not be present.

Fuchs (2000) ^[4]

That with regard to existence and nirvana their respective fault and

quality are seen,

that suffering is seen as the fault of existence and happiness as the

quality of nirvana,

stems from the presence of the disposition to buddhahood. "Why so?"

In those who are devoid of disposition, such seeing does not occur.

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Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
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.
Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.
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] Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.

[4] 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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