Verse IV.10

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.10

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विपुलानन्तमध्यत्वाद्‍बोधिराकाशधतुवत्
सम्यक्‍संबुद्धधर्मत्वात् सत्त्वधातुर्निधानवत्

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

vipulānantamadhyatvādbodhirākāśadhatuvat
samyaksaṃbuddhadharmatvāt sattvadhāturnidhānavat

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

རྒྱ་ཆེ་མཐའ་དང་དབུས་མེད་ཕྱིར། །
བྱང་ཆུབ་ནམ་མཁའི་ཁམས་བཞིན་ནོ། །
ཡང་དག་རྫོགས་སངས་ཆོས་ཉིད་ཕྱིར། །
སེམས་ཅན་ཁམས་ནི་གཏེར་དང་འདྲ། །

Dege, PHI, 134

Since it is vast and is without middle and end,
Awakening is similar to the element of space.
Since it has the nature of completely perfect buddhahood,
The basic element of sentient beings is like a treasure.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 438

L’Éveil est pareil à l’élément espace

Parce qu’il est immense et n’a ni bords ni centre. On compare l’Élément des êtres à un trésor Parce qu’il a pour nature la bouddhéité authentique et parfaite.

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

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།འདི་གཉིས་ཀྱི་བསྡུས་པའི་དོན་ནི། གོ་རིམས་བཞིན་དུ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་གཉིས་{br}དང་བརྒྱད་ཀྱིས་རིག་པར་བྱ་སྟེ། གང་ཞིག་གང་གིས་འདུལ་བ་ཡི། །བྱ་གང་གང་དུ་གང་གི་ཚེ། །དེ་ནི་རྣམ་རྟོག་སྐྱེ་མེད་ཕྱིར། །ཐུབ་པ་རྟག་ཏུ་ལྷུན་གྱིས་གྲུབ། །གདུལ་བྱའི་ཁམས་ནི་གང་ཞིག་གི། །གདུལ་བའི་ཐབས་མང་གང་དག་གིས། །གདུལ་བྱའི་བྱ་གང་གང་དུ་ནི། །གང་ཚེ་ཡུལ་དང་{br}དུས་དེ་དག །ངེས་འབྱིན་དེ་ཡི་རྟོན་པ་དང་། །དེའི་འབྲས་དེ་ཡི་ཡོངས་འཛིན་དང་། །དེ་སྒྲིབ་དེ་གཅོད་རྐྱེན་ལ་ནི། །རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་མེད་ཕྱིར་རོ། །ངེས་པར་འབྱིན་པ་ས་བཅུ་སྟེ། །ཚོགས་གཉིས་དག་ནི་དེ་ཡི་རྒྱུ། །དེ་འབྲས་བྱང་ཆུབ་མཆོག་ཡིན་ཏེ། །བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཅན་ཡོངས་སུ་{br}འཛིན། །དེ་སྒྲིབ་མཐའ་ཡས་ཉོན་མོངས་དང་། །ཉེ་བའི་ཉོན་མོངས་བག་ཆགས་སོ། །དུས་ཀུན་ཏུ་ནི་དེ་འཇོམས་པའི། །རྐྱེན་ནི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡིན། །གནས་དྲུག་འདི་རྣམས་གོ་རིམས་བཞིན། །རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཉི་མ་ནམ་མཁའི་གཏེར། །སྤྲིན་དང་རླུང་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །ཤེས་ཆུ་ཡོན་ཏན་

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རིན་ཆེན་དང་། །ལྡན་ཕྱིར་ས་རྣམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་བཞིན། །སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཉེར་འཚོའི་ཕྱིར། །ཚོགས་གཉིས་དག་ནི་ཉི་མ་བཞིན། །རྒྱ་ཆེ་མཐའ་དང་དབུས་མེད་ཕྱིར། །བྱང་ཆུབ་ནམ་མཁའི་ཁམས་བཞིན་ནོ། །ཡང་དག་རྫོགས་སངས་ཆོས་ཉིད་ཕྱིར། །སེམས་ཅན་ཁམས་ནི་གཏེར་དང་འདྲ། །གློ་{br}བུར་ཁྱབ་དང་མ་གྲུབ་ཕྱིར། །དེ་ཡི་ཉོན་མོངས་སྤྲིན་ཚོགས་བཞིན། །དེ་གཏོར་བ་ཡི་ཉེར་གནས་ཕྱིར། །ཐུགས་རྗེ་མི་བཟད་རླུང་དང་འདྲ། །གཞན་གྱི་དབང་གིས་ངེས་འབྱུང་དང་། །བདག་དང་སེམས་ཅན་མཚུངས་གཟིགས་དང་། །མཛད་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་མ་རྫོགས་ཕྱིར། །འཁོར་བ་སྲིད་དུ་མཛད་མི་འཆད།

The summarized meaning of these [two verses] is to be understood through [the following] two and eight verses, respectively.

Since they lack conceptions as to

For whom, whereby, where,

And when which guiding activity [is to be performed],

[The activity] of the sages is always effortless. IV.3

"For whom" [refers to] the constitutions of those to be guided;

"Whereby," to the abundant means;

"Which," to the guiding activity;

And "where and when," to the [proper] place and time for this [activity]. IV.4

For [this activity] lacks conceptions about deliverance,

The support of that, the result of that,

Taking hold of that, the obscurations of that,

And the condition for eliminating them. IV.5 (J99)

"Deliverance" [refers to] the ten bhūmis;

"The cause of that," to the two accumulations;

"The result of that," to supreme awakening;

"Taking hold," to the beings of awakening; IV.6

"The obscurations of that," to the infinite afflictions,

Secondary afflictions, and their latent tendencies;

And "the condition for overcoming them

That is [present] at all times," to compassion. IV.7

These six points, in due order,

Are to be understood

As being like the ocean, the sun,

The sky, a treasure, clouds, and wind. IV.8

Since it [contains] the water of wisdom (D122b) and the jewels of the qualities,

The highest yāna resembles the ocean. P128a)

Since they sustain all sentient beings,

The two accumulations are like the sun. IV.9

Since it is vast and is without middle and end,

Awakening is similar to the element of space.

Since it has the nature of completely perfect buddhahood,

The basic element of sentient beings is like a treasure. IV.10

Since they are adventitious, pervasive, and not established,

Its afflictions resemble cloud banks.

Since it accomplishes the dispersion of these [clouds],

Compassion is like a strong wind. IV.11

Because of [accomplishing] deliverance for the sake of others,

Because of regarding sentient beings and oneself as equal,

And because of there being no end to what is to be done,

[Buddha] activity is uninterrupted as long as [saṃsāric] existence lasts. IV.12

etayoryathākramaṃ dvābhyāmaṣṭābhiśca ślokaiḥ piṇḍārtho veditavyaḥ/

yasya yena ca yāvacca yadā ca vinayakriyā/

tadvikalpodayābhāvādanābhogaḥ sadā muneḥ//3//

yasya dhātorvineyasya yenopāyena bhūriṇā/

yā vinītikriyā yatra yadā taddeśakālayoḥ//4//

niryāṇe tadupastambhe tatphale tatparigrahe/

tadāvṛttau taducchittipratyaye cāvikalpataḥ//5//

bhūmayo daśa niryāṇaṃ taddhetuḥ saṃbhṛtidvayam/

tatphalaṃ paramā bodhirbodheḥ sattvaḥ parigrahaḥ//6//

tadāvṛtiraparyantakleśopakleśavāsanāḥ/

karuṇā tatsamudghātapratyayaḥ sārvakālikaḥ//7//

sthānāni veditavyāni ṣaḍetāni yathākramam/

mahodadhiravivyomanidhānāmbudavāyuvat//8//

jñānāmbuguṇaratnatvādagrayānaṃ samudravat/

sarvasattvopajīvyatvāt saṃbhāradvayamarkavat//9//

vipulānantamadhyatvādbodhirākāśadhatuvat/

samyaksaṃbuddhadharmatvāt sattvadhāturnidhānavat//10//

āgantuvyāptyaniṣpa ttestatsaṃkleśo'bhrarāśivat/

tatkṣiṃptipratyupasthānāt karuṇodvṛttavāyuvat//11//

parādhikāraniryāṇāt sattvātmasamadarśanāt/

kṛtyāparisamāpteśca kriyāpraśrabdhirā bhavāt//12//

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

Great and extensive, without middle or end,

Supreme Enlightenment is like the element of space;

Being the Essence of the Supreme Buddha,

The element of the living beings resembles a treasure.

Takasaki (1966)

Being extensive and of neither end nor middle,

The Enlightenment has a resemblance to space;

Being of the nature of the Perfect Enlightened One,

The living beings are akin to a treasure;

Fuchs (2000)

Being vast and without any middle or end,

enlightenment is like the element of space.

Genuine perfect awakening is dharmata,

hence beings' nature is like a treasure.

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āvaraṇa - Literally, that which obscures or conceals. Often listed as a set of two obscurations (sgrib gnyis): the afflictive emotional obscurations (Skt. kleśāvaraṇa, Tib. nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa) and the cognitive obscurations (Skt. jñeyāvaraṇa, Tib. shes bya'i sgrib pa). By removing the first, one becomes free of suffering, and by removing the second, one becomes omniscient. Skt. आवरण Tib. སྒྲིབ་པ་

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bhūmi - A plateau of spiritual development. Skt. भूमि Tib. ས་

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kleśa - Often referred to as poisons, these are a class of disturbing or disruptive emotional states that when aroused negatively affect or taint the mind. Skt. क्लेश Tib. ཉོན་མོངས་ Ch. 煩惱

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

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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

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