Verse I.25

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.25

Verse I.25 Variations

शुद्‍ध्युपक्लिष्टतायोगात् निःसंक्लेशविशुद्धितः
अविनिर्भागधर्मत्वादनाभोगाविकल्पतः
śuddhyupakliṣṭatāyogāt niḥsaṃkleśaviśuddhitaḥ
avinirbhāgadharmatvādanābhogāvikalpataḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།དག་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་དང་ལྡན་ཕྱིར།
།ཀུན་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་མེད་དག་ཕྱིར།
།རྣམ་པར་དབྱེ་བ་མེད་ཆོས་ཕྱིར།
།ལྷུན་གྲུབ་རྣམ་པར་མི་རྟོག་ཕྱིར།
Dege, PHI, 111
Since it is pure and yet associated with afflictions,
Since it is not afflicted and yet becomes pure,
Since its qualities are inseparable,
And since its activity is effortless and nonconceptual.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 352. [2]
Parce que [l’Élément] est pur mais encore associé aux affections ;
Parce que [l’Éveil] est dépourvu de souillures et pourtant purifié ;
Parce que les qualités ne sont pas séparées [de l’essence du réel] ;
Et parce que les [activités] spontanées ne recourent pas à la pensée.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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Holmes (1985) [3]
Pure yet accompanied by defilement,
completely undefiled I·et to be purified
truly inseparable qualities.
total non-thought and spontaneity.
Fuchs (2000) [4]
[The buddha element] is pure and yet has affliction.
[Enlightenment] was not afflicted and yet is purified.
Qualities are totally indivisible [and yet unapparent].
[Activity] is spontaneous and yet without any thought.

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  1. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  2. 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.
  3. Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.
  4. 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.

kleśa - Often referred to as poisons, these are a class of disturbing or disruptive emotional states that when aroused negatively affect or taint the mind. Skt. क्लेश Tib. ཉོན་མོངས་ Ch. 煩惱

tathatā - Suchness itself, absolute reality, or thusness, as in the ultimate state of being of phenomena. Skt. तथता Tib. དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་

Uttaratantra - The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra. Skt. उत्तरतन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ Ch. 寶性論

These are the root verses of the Uttaratantra attributed to Maitreya by the Tibetan tradition.

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