Verse I.40
From Buddha-Nature
Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.40
Verse I.40 Variations
बुद्धधातुः सचेन्न स्यान्निर्विद्दुःखेऽपि नो भवेत्
नेच्छा न प्रार्थना नापि प्राणिधिर्निवृतौ भवेत्
नेच्छा न प्रार्थना नापि प्राणिधिर्निवृतौ भवेत्
buddhadhātuḥ sacenna syānnirvidduḥkhe'pi no bhavet
necchā na prārthanā nāpi prāṇidhirnivṛtau bhavet
necchā na prārthanā nāpi prāṇidhirnivṛtau bhavet
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
གལ་ཏེ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཁམས་མེད་ན།
།སྡུག་ལའང་སྐྱོ་བར་མི་འགྱུར་ཞིང་།
།མྱ་ངན་འདས་ལ་འདོད་པ་དང་།
།དོན་གཉེར་སྨོན་པའང་མེད་པར་འགྱུར།
།སྡུག་ལའང་སྐྱོ་བར་མི་འགྱུར་ཞིང་།
།མྱ་ངན་འདས་ལ་འདོད་པ་དང་།
།དོན་གཉེར་སྨོན་པའང་མེད་པར་འགྱུར།
If the buddha element did not exist,
There would be no weariness of suffering,
Nor would there be the wish, striving,
And aspiration for nirvāṇa.
There would be no weariness of suffering,
Nor would there be the wish, striving,
And aspiration for nirvāṇa.
- Si nous n’avions pas d’élément de bouddha,
- Nous ne nous lasserions pas de souffrir
- Et ne voudrions pas d’un nirvāṇa
- Qui ne nous inspirerait ni intérêt ni désir.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
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Other English translations[edit]
Holmes (1985) [3]
- Were there no buddha-nature
- there would be no discontent with suffering
- nor desire, effort and aspiration for nirvāṇa.
Fuchs (2000) [4]
- If the buddha element were not present,
- there would be no remorse over suffering.
- There would be no longing for nirvana,
- nor striving and devotion towards this aim.
Textual sources[edit]
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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.
- Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.
- 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.
