Verse I.143
Verse I.143 Variations
धातोर्बुद्धादिसाधर्म्यं स्वभावत्रयसंग्रहात्
dhātorbuddhādisādharmyaṃ svabhāvatrayasaṃgrahāt
།པདྨ་ལ་སོགས་དག་དང་མཚུངས།
།རང་བཞིན་གསུམ་གྱིས་བསྡུས་ཕྱིར་ཁམས།
།སངས་རྒྱས་སོགས་དང་ཆོས་མཚུངས་སོ།
Resemble a lotus and so on.
Due to consisting of three natures,
The basic element is similar to a buddha and so on.
- L’attachement et les huit autres souillures
- Sont donc comparables à un lotus fané et aux huit autres exemples.
- Ramené à sa triple nature, l’Élément
- Est comparable à un bouddha et ainsi de suite.
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Other English translations[edit]
Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Thus the 9 forms of defilement, passion and the rest
- Have a resemblance with a lotus flower and the other forms.
- And the Essence of the Buddha, which of is threefold nature,
- Bears a similarity with the Buddha, &c.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Thus the 9 pollutions, Desire and the rest,
- Have a resemblance to a lotus flower and others,
- And the Essence [of the Buddha], consisting of 3-fold nature,
- Bears a similarity to the Buddha and the rest.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Thus desire and the further of the nine defilements
- correspond to the lotus and the following examples.
- Its nature unifying three aspects, the element has properties
- that correspond to those of the Buddha and the other similes.
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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.