Verse I.59
Verse I.59 Variations
तदमूलाप्रतिष्ठाना प्रकृतिर्व्योमधातुवत्
tadamūlāpratiṣṭhānā prakṛtirvyomadhātuvat
།རླུང་གི་ཁམས་དང་འདྲ་བར་ལྟ།
།རང་བཞིན་ནམ་མཁའི་ཁམས་བཞིན་དུ།
།དེ་བཞིན་ཅན་མིན་གནས་པ་མེད།
Is to be known as being like the element of wind.
Being without root and not resting [on anything],
[Mind’s] nature is similar to space.
- Considérez les activités erronées du mental
- Comme l’élément vent. Quant à la nature
- [De l’esprit], elle n’a pas de fondement
- Et ne repose sur rien, comme l’élément espace.
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Other English translations[edit]
Obermiller (1931) [3]
- And the naive appreciation (of existence)
- Bears a likeness with the element of air;
- The Spiritual Essence is like space, having no foundation and no substratum.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- The Irrational Thought is known
- As having resemblance to air;
- Being of no root and of no support,
- The Innate Mind is like space.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Improper conceptual activity is viewed
- as being similar to the element of wind.
- [Mind's] nature, as the element of space,
- has no ground and no place of abiding.
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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.