Verse I.47

From Buddha-Nature


Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.47

Verse I.47 Variations

अशुद्धोऽशुद्धशुद्धोऽथ सुविशुद्धो यथाक्रमम्
सत्त्वधातुरिति प्रोक्तो बोधिसत्त्वस्तथागतः
aśuddho'śuddhaśuddho'tha suviśuddho yathākramam
sattvadhāturiti prokto bodhisattvastathāgataḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།མ་དག་མ་དག་དག་པ་དང་།
།ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣམ་དག་གོ་རིམས་བཞིན།
།སེམས་ཅན་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་དང་།
།དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཞེས་བརྗོད་དོ།
Dege, PHI, 112
Its being impure, its being both impure and pure,
And its being completely pure, in due order,
Are expressed as "the basic element of sentient beings,"
"Bodhisattva," and "tathāgata."
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 372 [2]
Les [états] impur, impur et pur, et très pur

Sont respectivement appelés « Être ordinaire », « bodhisattva », Et « tathāgata ».

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།དེ་ལ་གང་ཟག་འདི་གསུམ་གྱི་གནས་སྐབས་ཀྱི་རབ་ཏུ་དབྱེ་བ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་{br}པ། མ་དག་མ་དག་དག་པ་དང་། །ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣམ་དག་གོ་རིམས་བཞིན། །སེམས་ཅན་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་དང་། །དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཞེས་བརྗོད་དོ།


Other English translations

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Holmes (1985) [3]
The impure, those both pure and impure
and those absolutely perfectly pure
are known respectively as
ordinary beings, bodhisattvas and tathāgatas.
Fuchs (2000) [4]
The unpurified, the both unpurified and purified,
and the utterly purified [phases]
are expressed in their given order
[by the names] "being," "bodhisattva," and "tathagata."

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Commentaries on this verse

Academic notes

  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.

Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt. बोधिसत्त्व Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ། Ch. 菩薩

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt. बोधिसत्त्व Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ། Ch. 菩薩

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt. बोधिसत्त्व Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ། Ch. 菩薩

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt. बोधिसत्त्व Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ། Ch. 菩薩

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

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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

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