Verse I.145

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.145

Verse I.145 Variations

धर्मकायो द्विधा ज्ञेयो धर्मधातुः सुनिर्मलः
तन्निष्यन्दश्च गाम्भीर्यवैचित्र्यनयदेशना
dharmakāyo dvidhā jñeyo dharmadhātuḥ sunirmalaḥ
tanniṣyandaśca gāmbhīryavaicitryanayadeśanā
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།ཆོས་སྐུ་རྣམ་གཉིས་ཤེས་བྱ་སྟེ།
།ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ཤིན་ཏུ་དྲི་མེད་དང་།
།དེ་ཡི་རྒྱུ་མཐུན་ཟབ་པ་དང་།
།སྣ་ཚོགས་ཚུལ་ནི་སྟོན་པའོ།
Dege, PHI, 121-122
The dharmakāya is to be known as twofold—
The utterly stainless dharmadhātu
And its natural outflow (teaching
The principles of profundity and diversity).
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 404 [2]
Le corps du Dharma présente deux aspects
La très pure dimension absolue
Et son analogue, les enseignements
Du mode profond et du mode détaillé.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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Obermiller (1931) [3]
The Cosmical Body is to be known in 2 aspects:—
It is the Absolute perfectly immaculate,
And its natural outflow, the Word
Which speaks of the profound (Highest Truth)
And (of the elements of the Empirical World) in their variety.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
The Absolute Body is to be known in 2 aspects,
[One] is the Absolute Entity which is perfectly immaculate,
[The other] is its natural outflow, the teaching
Of the profound [truth] and of the diverse guidance.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
The dharmakaya is to be known [in] two aspects.
These are the utterly unstained dharmadhatu
and the cause conducive to its [realization],
which is teaching in the deep and manifold way.

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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.

dharmakāya - "Truth body" or "true being" — One of the three bodies of a buddha. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, it often refers to a kind of fundamental principle or the true nature of reality itself. Skt. धर्मकाय Tib. ཆོས་སྐུ་ Ch. 法身

dharmadhātu - The fundamental expanse from which all phenomena emerge. Skt. धर्मधातु Tib. ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ Ch. 法界

dharmadhātu - The fundamental expanse from which all phenomena emerge. Skt. धर्मधातु Tib. ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ Ch. 法界

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

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

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