Verse IV.96
Verse IV.96 Variations
आकाशसदृशं तद्वन्न च शुक्लास्पदं च तत्
ākāśasadṛśaṃ tadvanna ca śuklāspadaṃ ca tat
།བྱུང་བ་དེ་དང་འདྲ་བའང་མིན།
།ནམ་མཁའ་དང་འདྲ་དག་པ་ཡི།
།གཞི་མིན་དེ་དང་འདྲ་བའང་མིན།
In that [the latter] arises from conditions.
It is similar to space and yet is dissimilar
In that [the latter] is not the basis of virtue.
- Il est comparable à l’écho mais en diffère
- Parce que l’écho est un phénomène conditionné.
- Il est comparable à l’espace mais en diffère
- Parce que l’espace n’est pas le terrain des vertus.
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Obermiller (1931) [9]
- He resembles the echo, but as the latter
- Is a product of causes, there is no perfect similarity;
- He is like space, but space is not the foundation
- Of virtue; therefore it is not akin to him.
Takasaki (1966) [10]
- The Buddha has a resemblance to an echo,
- Which however, being a product of causes, is not like him,
- [Being of no cause] he has a resemblance to space,
- Which, not being the basis of virtues, is not like him.
Fuchs (2000) [11]
- He is similar to an echo, and yet dissimilar,
- since an echo arises from cause and condition.
- He is similar to space, and yet dissimilar,
- since space is not a ground of pure virtue.
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- 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.
- DP take darśana as "seeing."
- I follow DP mi bzlog pa. VT (fol. 16v6) glosses asaṃhāryā as ātyantikī, which can mean "continual," "uninterrupted," "infinite," and "total."
- I follow Schmithausen’s emendation nānarthabījamuk (or °bījahṛt; supported by DP don med pa’i / sa bon spong min) of MA nānarthabījamut and MB nāna(?)rthabījavat against J no sārthabījavat.
- I follow MA, which contains the second negation na tat against J ca tat.
- I follow MA °saṃpadāṃ against J °saṃpadam.
- 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.