Verse I.88
Verse I.88 Variations
यो यदङ्गं प्रजानीयात्तदन्यो नावधारयेत्
yo yadaṅgaṃ prajānīyāttadanyo nāvadhārayet
།གཞན་དང་གཞན་ལ་མཁས་པ་དག
།གང་ཞིག་ཡན་ལག་གང་ཤེས་པ།
།དེ་གཞན་ངེས་ཟིན་མེད་པར་འགྱུར།
[Each] an expert in a different [body part],
So that whatever part is known by one of them
Would not be understood by any other one.
- Imaginez des peintres aux talents différents
- Qui ne savent représenter de parties du corps
- que celles qu’ils connaissent.
- Le maître du royaume leur offre une toile
- « Travaillez ensemble, dit-il, et faites mon portrait ! »
- À cet ordre, ils se mettent à l’ouvrage mais l’un d’eux
- Doit soudain se rendre à l’étranger.
- Celui-là disparu, il sera impossible d’achever le tableau
- dans toutes ses parties.
- Fin de la parabole.
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Other English translations[edit]
Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Suppose there were some painters,
- Skilful (in painting) various (parts of the body),
- And each of them, knowing his own special member,
- Would not be able (to paint) the rest.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Suppose there were some painters,
- [Each of them] expert in a different sphere,
- So that whatever skill possessed by one of them,
- The others could not understand.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Suppose some painters mastered their craft,
- each with respect to a different [part of the body],
- so that whichever part one would know how to do,
- he would not succeed with any other part.
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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.