Verse I.42

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.42

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Verse I.42 Variations

महोदधिरिवामेयगुणरत्नाक्षयाकरः
प्रदीपवदनिर्भागगुणयुक्तस्वभावतः

mahodadhirivāmeyaguṇaratnākṣayākaraḥ
pradīpavadanirbhāgaguṇayuktasvabhāvataḥ

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

།རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེ་བཞིན་དཔག་མེད་པའི།
།ཡོན་ཏན་རིན་ཆེན་མི་ཟད་གནས།
།དབྱེར་མེད་ཡོན་ཏན་དང་ལྡན་པའི།
།ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ཕྱིར་མར་མེ་བཞིན།

Dege, PHI, 112

Just like the ocean, [the disposition of the victors] is an inexhaustible source
Of immeasurable jewels [in the form of its] qualities.
Just like a lamp, it is endowed with
Inseparable qualities by its nature.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 369 ^[2]

Source inépuisable de joyaux aux qualités infinies,

[L’Élément] ressemble au Grand Océan.

On le compare aussi à une lampe car, en essence,

Il possède d’indissociables qualités.

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

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།དེ་ལ་ལྡན་པའི་དོན་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། {br}རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེ་བཞིན་དཔག་མེད་པའི། །ཡོན་ཏན་རིན་ཆེན་མི་ཟད་གནས། །དབྱེར་མེད་ཡོན་ཏན་དང་ལྡན་པའི། །ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ཕྱིར་མར་མེ་བཞིན།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) ^[3]

(The Essence of the Buddha) is like the Great Ocean

Being the inexhaustible repository of jewels—its sublime properties;

It is (moreover) like a light, since, by its nature

It is endowed with properties indivisible (from it).

Takasaki (1966) ^[4]

Being the inexhaustible storage of jewels of immeasurable virtues,

[The Germ of the Buddha is] like the Ocean;

It is akin to the lantern, because of its nature of

Being endowed with properties indivisible [from it].

Fuchs (2000) ^[5]

Like the great sea it holds qualities

immeasurable, precious, and inexhaustible.

Its essence holds indivisible properties.

Thus [the element] is similar to a lamp.

Textual sources[edit]

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Academic notes[edit]

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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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