Verse I.74
Verse I.74 Variations
न पुनः कुरुते यत्नं परिपाकाय देहिनाम्
na punaḥ kurute yatnaṃ paripākāya dehinām
།རྣམ་རྟོག་ཐམས་ཅད་བྲལ་བའི་ཕྱིར།
།དེ་ནི་ལུས་ཅན་སྨིན་པ་ཡི།
།དོན་དུ་འབད་པ་བྱེད་མ་ཡིན།
And through being free from all conceptions,
They do not [need to] make any efforts
For the sake of maturing living beings.
- Sur l’élan de leurs efforts antérieurs
- Et affranchis de toute pensée,
- Ils font mûrir les êtres
- Sans exercer le moindre effort.
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Other English translations[edit]
Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Being completely free from all constructive thought,
- And of effort,一owing to his previous vows,
- He does not use any exertion,
- In bringing the living beings to maturity.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Owing to the continuing force of the previous life,
- And because of being free from all discriminations,
- He does not use any exertion at all
- For bringing the living beings to their maturity.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- By the power of their former [prayers]
- and since they are free from all ideation,
- they do not exert any deliberate effort
- to lead all sentient beings to maturation.
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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.