Verse I.140
Verse I.140 Variations
भावनाज्ञानहेयानां पूतिवस्त्रनिदर्शनम्
bhāvanājñānaheyānāṃ pūtivastranidarśanam
།འཇིག་ཚོགས་སྙིང་པོ་བཅོམ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས།
།བསྒོམ་ལམ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྤང་བྱ་རྣམས།
།གོས་ཧྲུལ་དག་དང་མཚུངས་པར་བསྟན།
Whose core—[views about] a real personality—has been relinquished
As a necessary consequence of the noble path [of seeing],
Are illustrated by a filthy garment.
- Une fois reliés à la voie des êtres sublimes,
- [Les arhats] ont vaincu l’essentiel – la croyance à l’individualité.
- Les objets que la sagesse primordiale élimine sur la voie de méditation
- Ressemblent, dit-on, à des guenilles ou des haillons.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- The Obscurations which are to be removed
- By the Wisdom on the Path of Concentrated Trance
- Of those who, acting on the Path of a Saint,
- Have done away with the views of a real personality,—
- Are shown as resembling a tattered garment.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Those who have destroyed the ground of conception of personality
- Are following in the [Practice of the] Saintly Path;
- Therefore, their Defilements which are to be rejected
- By the Wisdom of Practice are said to be like a tattered garment.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Through their junction with the noble path
- they have overcome the essential part of the transitory collection.
- What their wisdom must abandon [on] the path of meditation
- is explained as being similar to tattered rags.
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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.
- 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.