Verse I.31

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.31

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प्रभावानन्यथाभावस्निग्धभावस्वभावतः
चिन्तामणिनभोवारिगुणसाधर्म्यमेषु हि

prabhāvānanyathābhāvasnigdhabhāvasvabhāvataḥ
cintāmaṇinabhovāriguṇasādharmyameṣu hi

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[1]

།མཐུ་དང་གཞན་དུ་མི་འགྱུར་དང་།
།བརླན་པའི་ངོ་བོའི་རང་བཞིན་ཕྱིར།
།འདི་དག་ནོར་བུ་རིན་ཆེན་མཁའ།
།ཆུ་ཡི་ཡོན་ཏན་ཆོས་མཐུན་ཉིད།

Dege, PHI, 111

By virtue of its nature of power,
Being unchanging, and being moist,
It resembles the qualities
Of a wish-fulfilling jewel, space, and water.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 358 ^[2]

Comme elle est puissante, immuable,

Et de nature humide,

Elle est analogue

Au précieux joyau, à l’espace et à l’eau.

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]

Obermiller (1931) ^[3]

Being essentially powerful,

Unalterable and moist by nature,

It has a resemblance, in its distinctive features,

With the wish-fulfilling gem, with space, and water.

Takasaki (1966) ^[4]

Because of its own nature of power,

Identity, and being moist; in these [three points]

[The Essence of the Tathāgata has] a resemblance

To the quality of the wish-fulfilling jewel, the sky and water.

Fuchs (2000) ^[5]

[Wielding] power, not changing into something else,

and being a nature that has a moistening [quality]:

these [three] have properties corresponding

to those of a precious gem, the sky, and water.

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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.
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.

[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] Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.

[4] 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.

[5] 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.

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