Verse I.54
Verse I.54 Variations
तथा न प्रदहत्येनं मृत्युव्याधिजराग्नयः
tathā na pradahatyenaṃ mṛtyuvyādhijarāgnayaḥ
།སྔོན་ཆད་ནམ་ཡང་ཚིག་པ་མེད།
།དེ་བཞིན་འདི་ནི་འཆི་བ་དང་།
།ན་དང་རྒ་བའི་མེས་མི་འཚིག
Burned before by any fires,
So this [basic element] is not consumed
By the fires of death, sickness, and aging.
- Tout comme, jusqu’à ce jour,
- Aucun feu n’a jamais consumé l’espace,
- Cette [essence] ne se consume pas aux feux
- De la mort, de la maladie et de la vieillesse.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Just as space will never be destroyed
- By the (destructive) fires (at the end of the world),
- In a like way this (Essence of the Buddha)
- Is not consumed by the fires of death, of illness, and decrepitude.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Just as space has never been burnt.
- By the fire [at the end of the world];
- Likewise the fires of death, of illness and decrepitude
- Cannot consume this [Essence of the Buddha].
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Space is never burnt by fires.
- Likewise this [dharmadhatu]
- is not burnt by the fires
- of death, sickness, and aging.
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Academic notes[edit]
- 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.
- 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.