Verse I.142
Verse I.142 Variations
वज्रोपमसमाधानज्ञानवध्या महात्मनाम्
vajropamasamādhānajñānavadhyā mahātmanām
།ས་འདམ་གོས་བཞིན་ཤེས་བྱ་སྟེ།
།བདག་ཉིད་ཆེན་པོ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ལྟའི།
།ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱིས་གཞོམ་བྱ་ཡིན།
Should be known to be like a clay mold.
They are to be overcome by the wisdom
Of the vajra-like samādhi of great beings.
- Les souillures liées aux trois terres [pures]
- Sont comparables à des traces d’argile [sur une statue].
- Le recueillement Adamantin des grands êtres
- En aura raison.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- The stains connected with the last 3 Stages
- Are known as being like the covering of muddy ground.
- They are to be suppressed by the concentrated trance
- Called “ the diamond-cutter ” which is of most sublime nature.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- The stains connected with the [last] 3 Stages
- Are known as being like the earthen mould,
- And are to be destroyed by the Wisdom of the Buddhas
- [Obtained through] Meditation called 'the Diamondlike'.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- The defilements connected with the three [pure] levels
- should be known as being similar to the layer of clay.
- They must be overcome by the vajra-like samadhi
- of [those] who are the embodiment of greatness.
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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.
- 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.