Verse V.22

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse V.22

Verse V.22 Variations

धीमान्द्यादधिमुक्तिशुक्लविरहान् मिथ्याभिमानाश्रयात्
सद्धर्मव्यसनावृतात्मकतया नेयार्थतत्त्वग्रहात्
लोभग्रेधतया च दर्शनवशाद्धर्मद्विपां सेवना-
दाराद्धर्मभृतां च हीनरुचयो धर्मान् क्षिपन्त्यर्हताम्
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
dhīmāndyādadhimuktiśuklavirahān mithyābhimānāśrayāt
saddharmavyasanāvṛtātmakatayā neyārthatattvagrahāt
lobhagredhatayā ca darśanavaśāddharmadvipāṃ sevanā-
dārāddharmabhṛtāṃ ca hīnarucayo dharmān kṣipantyarhatām
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
།བློ་དམན་ཕྱིར་དང་དཀར་མོས་བྲལ་ཕྱིར་ལོག་པའི་ང་རྒྱལ་ལ་བརྟེན་ཕྱིར།
།དམ་ཆོས་ཕོངས་པས་བསྒྲིབས་པའི་བདག་ཕྱིར་དྲང་དོན་དེ་ཉིད་ངེས་འཛིན་ཕྱིར།
།རྙེད་ལ་བརྐམ་ཕྱིར་ལྟ་བའི་དབང་ཕྱིར་ཆོས་སུན་འབྱིན་པ་བརྟེན་པའི་ཕྱིར།
།ཆོས་འཛིན་བསྲིངས་ཕྱིར་མོས་པ་དམན་ཕྱིར་དགྲ་བཅོམ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་སྤོང་བྱེད།
Dege, PHI, 144-145
Because of weak intelligence, because of lacking faith in what is pure, because of relying on false pride,
Because of having the character of being obscured through destroying the genuine dharma, because of grasping at the expedient meaning as being true reality,
Because of coveting gain, because of being under the sway of views, because of relying on those who hate the dharma,
Because of keeping at a distance from those who maintain the dharma, and because of desiring what is inferior, the dharmas of the arhats are rejected.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 459 [3]
Le manque d’intelligence comme d’aspiration à la vertu,
le maintien d’une fierté mal placée,
Une nature obscurcie par la pauvreté en vrai Dharma,
la confusion du sens provisoire et du sens définitif,
L’appât du gain, le pouvoir des opinions, la fréquentation
de ceux qui déprécient le Dharma,
L’éloignement des détenteurs du Dharma et le manque d’aspiration
voilà dix raisons qui privent de l’enseignement
des Destructeurs de l’Ennemi.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

RGVV Commentary on Verse V.22

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།ཉམས་པའི་རྒྱུ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། བློ་དམན་ཕྱིར་དང་དཀར་མོས་བྲལ་ཕྱིར་ལོག་པའི་ང་རྒྱལ་བསྟན་ཕྱིར་དང་། །དམ་ཆོས་ཕོངས་པས་བསྒྲིབ་པའི་བདག་ཕྱིར་དྲང་དོན་དེ་ཉིད་འཛིན་པའི་ཕྱིར། །རྙེད་ལ་བརྐམ་ཕྱིར་ལྟ་{br}བའི་དབང་ཕྱིར་ཆོས་སུན་འབྱིན་པ་བརྟེན་ཕྱིར་དང་། །ཆོས་འཛིན་བསྲིངས་ཕྱིར་མོས་པ་དམན་ཕྱིར་དགྲ་བཅོམ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་སྤོང་བྱེད།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [8]
Want of intelligence, want of faith in the virtuous (Doctrine),
Indulgence in ill-suited pride,
Obscurity through the rejection of the Teaching,
Apprehension of the conventional meaning as direct,
Love of gain, adherence to false views,
Reliance upon one who insults the Doctrine,
The fact of being distant from those that maintain it,
And insufficient devotion,—through all this
One becomes deprived of the Doctrine of the Saints.
Takasaki (1966) [9]
Want of intelligence, want of faith in the virtuous Doctrine,
Indulgence in false pride,
Obscured nature through the rejection of the Highest Doctrine,
Interpretation of the conventional sense as the [ultimate] Truth,
Greediness, [adherence to] false conception,
Devotion to those who hate the Doctrine,
Keeping at distance from those who convey the Doctrine,
And delighting in the inferior Doctrine,
By all this, one becomes deprived of the Doctrine of the Saint.
Fuchs (2000) [10]
Due to a feeble intellect, lack of striving for virtue, reliance on false pride,
a nature obscured by neglect of pure Dharma, taking the provisional
for the definitive meaning—for thatness, craving for profit,
being under the sway of [inferior] views, relying on those
disapproving [of Dharma], staying away from those who uphold
the teachings,
and due to mean devotion, the teachings of the Foe-Vanquishers are
abandoned.

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Academic notes[edit]

  1. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  2. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  3. 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.
  4. VT (fol. 17r1) says that the dharma is pure because it is supreme and prevents one from taking saṃsāric existence to be the most important thing.
  5. VT (fol. 17r1) glosses vyasanaṃ as vināśa.
  6. I follow de Jong’s emendation lābhagredhatayā (supported by DP rnyed la brkam) of lobhagredhatayā.
  7. I follow Schmithausen’s emendation vārād of ārād.
  8. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  9. 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.
  10. 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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