Verse I.86

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.86

Verse I.86 Variations

बुद्धधर्माविनिर्भागस्तद्‍गोत्रस्य तथागमः
अमृषामोषधर्मित्वमादिप्रकृतिशान्तता
buddhadharmāvinirbhāgastadgotrasya tathāgamaḥ
amṛṣāmoṣadharmitvamādiprakṛtiśāntatā
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་དབྱེར་མེད་པ་དང་།
།དེ་རིགས་དེ་བཞིན་ཐོབ་པ་དང་།
།བརྫུན་མེད་བསླུ་མེད་ཆོས་ཉིད་དང་།
།གདོད་ནས་རང་བཞིན་ཞི་ཉིད་དོ།
[They] are the inseparability of the buddha attributes,
The disposition for that having been obtained just as it is,
Its true nature’s being without falsity and deception,
And its being natural primordial peace.
[L’immensité non contaminée], c’est la bouddhéité
indissociable de ses qualités,
La filiation obtenue telle quelle,
L’essence du réel qui ne ment ni ne trompe
Et la paix naturelle des origines.

RGVV Commentary on Verse I.86

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [3]
(It is the Cosmical Body, since)
The properties of the Buddha are indivisible (manifesting themselves in all that exists).
(It is the Buddha)—
Because the Germ has developed in him into the Absolute.
(It is the Highest Truth), being neither error nor illusion,
(And it is Nirvāṇa), being by nature quiescent from the outset.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
It is indivisible from the Buddha's Properties,
Its Germ has been perfected as it is,
It is not of false, deceptive nature,
And it is quiescent from the very outset.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
Buddha qualities are indivisible.
The disposition is attained as it is.
The true state is [always] free from any fickleness and deceit.
Since beginningless time the nature has been peace itself.

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Academic notes[edit]

  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.