Verse I.112

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|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 396 <ref>[[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.</ref>
 
|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 396 <ref>[[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.</ref>
 
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|EnglishCommentary=[In the fifth example,] the '''afflictions''' are like the '''ground''' below, while the tathāgata element resembles a '''treasure of jewels'''.
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::'''Suppose there were an inexhaustible treasure'''
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::'''Beneath the ground within the house of a poor person,'''
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::'''But that person would not know about this [treasure],'''
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::'''Nor would the treasure say to that [person], "I am here!"''' I.112
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::'''Similarly, with the stainless treasure of jewels lodged within the mind,'''
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::'''Whose nature is to be inconceivable and inexhaustible,'''
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::'''Not being realized, beings continuously experience'''
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::'''The suffering of being destitute in many ways. I.113'''
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::'''Just as a treasure of jewels lodged inside the abode of a pauper would not say'''
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::'''To this person, "I, the jewel treasure, am here!," nor would this person know about it,'''
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::'''So the treasure of the dharma is lodged in the house of the mind, and sentient beings resemble the pauper. {P112a}'''
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::'''It is in order to enable them to attain this [treasure] that the seer takes birth in the world. I.114'''
 
|OtherTranslations=<h6>Obermiller (1931) <ref>Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.</ref></h6>
 
|OtherTranslations=<h6>Obermiller (1931) <ref>Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.</ref></h6>
 
:Suppose in a poor man’s house, deep under the ground,
 
:Suppose in a poor man’s house, deep under the ground,

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.112

Verse I.112 Variations

यथा दरिद्रस्य नरस्य वेश्म-
न्यन्तः पृथिव्यां निधिरक्षयः स्यात्
विद्यान्न चैनं स नरो न चास्मि-
न्नेषोऽहमस्मीति वदेन्निधिस्तम्
yathā daridrasya narasya veśma-
nyantaḥ pṛthivyāṃ nidhirakṣayaḥ syāt
vidyānna cainaṃ sa naro na cāsmi-
nneṣo'hamasmīti vadennidhistam
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།ཇི་ལྟར་མི་དབུལ་ཁྱིམ་ནང་ས་འོག་ན།
།མི་ཟད་པ་ཡི་གཏེར་ནི་ཡོད་གྱུར་ལ།
།མི་དེས་དེ་མ་ཤེས་ཏེ་གཏེར་དེ་ཡང་།
།དེ་ལ་ང་འདིར་ཡོད་ཅེས་མི་སྨྲ་ལྟར།
Dege, PHI, 118
Suppose there were an inexhaustible treasure
Beneath the ground within the house of a poor person,
But that person would not know about this [treasure],
Nor would the treasure say to that [person], "I am here!"
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 396 [2]
Sous la maison d’un pauvre
Est enfoui un trésor inépuisable.
Le pauvre homme l’ignore et le trésor
Ne lui dit pas où il se trouve.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ནི་སའི་མཐིལ་དང་འདྲ་ལ། དེ་{br}བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་ཁམས་ནི་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གཏེར་བཞིན་ཏེ། ཇི་ལྟར་མི་དབུལ་ཁྱིམ་ནང་ས་འོག་ན། །མི་ཟད་པ་ཡི་གཏེར་ནི་ཡོད་གྱུར་ཏེ། །མི་དེས་དེ་མ་ཤེས་ཤིང་གཏེར་དེ་ཡང་། །དེ་ལ་ང་འདིར་ཡོད་ཅེས་མི་སྨྲ་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་ཡིད་ཀྱི་ནང་ཆུད་རིན་ཆེན་གཏེར། །དྲི་མེད་གཞག་དང་{br}བསལ་མེད་ཆོས་ཉིད་ཀྱང་། །མ་རྟོགས་པས་ན་དབུལ་བའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ནི། །རྣམ་མང་རྒྱུན་དུ་སྐྱེ་དགུ་འདིས་མྱོང་ངོ། །ཇི་ལྟར་དབུལ་པོའི་ཁྱིམ་ནང་དུ་ནི་རིན་ཆེན་གཏེར་ཆུད་གྱུར་པའི་མི་ལ་ནི། །རིན་ཆེན་གཏེར་དག་ཡོད་ཅེས་རྗོད་པར་མི་བྱེད་དེ་ནི་མི་ཡིས་ཤེས་མིན་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་ཆོས་{br}གཏེར་ཡིད་ཀྱི་ཁྱིམ་གནས་སེམས་ཅན་དག་ནི་དབུལ་པོ་ལྟ་བུ་སྟེ། །དེ་དག་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་དེ་ཐོབ་བྱ་ཕྱིར་འཇིག་རྟེན་དུ་ནི་དྲང་སྲོང་ཡང་དག་བལྟམས།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [3]
Suppose in a poor man’s house, deep under the ground,
An inexhaustible treasure were concealed.
The man would know nothing about it,
And the treasure itself could not say to him
That it is to be found here in this place.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
Suppose there were an inexhaustible treasure
Under the ground within the house of a poor man;
However this man might not know about that treasure,
And the latter could not say to him 'I am here'; —
Fuchs (2000) [5]
If an inexhaustible treasure were buried
in the ground beneath a poor man's house,
the man would not know of it, and the treasure
would not speak and tell him "I am here!"

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Commentaries on this verse[edit]

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.

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

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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