Verse II.15

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|EnglishCommentary=The meaning of these two verses is to be understood in brief through the
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[following] eight verses.
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::'''The purity of the adventitious afflictions, such as desire,'''
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::'''Which is like the water in a pond and so on,'''
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::'''In brief, is said to be the fruition'''
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::'''Of nonconceptual wisdom.''' II.10
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::'''The seeing of the buddha state'''<ref>Skt. ''buddhabhāvanidarśanam'', DP "The definite attainment of the buddhakāya" (''sangs rgyas sku ni nges thob pa'').
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::'''That is endowed with all supreme aspects'''
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::'''Is explained to be the fruition of the wisdom'''
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::'''That is attained subsequent to that.''' II.11
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::'''[Buddhahood] is like a pond with very clear water'''
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::'''Because it has eliminated the turbidity of the silt of desire
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::'''And because it sprinkles the water of dhyāna'''
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::'''Upon those to be guided, who resemble lotuses.''' II.12
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::'''It resembles the stainless full moon'''
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::'''Because it has been released from Rāhu-like hatred'''
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::'''And because it pervades the world'''
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::'''With its rays of great love and compassion.''' II.13
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::'''This buddhahood is similar to the sun without stains'''
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::'''Because it is liberated from the clouds of ignorance'''
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::'''And because it dispels the darkness'''
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::'''In the world with its rays of wisdom.''' II.14 P121b)
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::'''Because it has the nature of being equal to the unequaled,'''
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::'''Because it bestows the taste of the genuine dharma,'''
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::'''And because it is free from what is useless,<ref>VT (fol. 14r3) glosses "what is useless" (''phalgu'') as "husks" (''tvak''), which corresponds to DP ''shun pa''.</ref>
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::'''It is like the Sugata, honey, and a kernel. II.15 (J82)
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::'''Because it is pure, because it has ended poverty'''
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::'''By virtue of its substance’s consisting of qualities''',<ref>VT (fol. 14r4) says that "the very qualities are the substance [of buddhahood]."</ref>
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::'''And because it grants the fruit of liberation,'''
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::'''It is like gold, a treasure, and a tree.''' II.16
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::'''Because its body consists of the jewel of the dharma''',
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::'''Because it is the supreme lord of human beings''',
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::'''And because it has the appearance of a precious form''',
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::'''It is like a precious [representation], a king, and an image'''. II.17
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|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>
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:It is possessed of properties incomparable (with others)
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:And equal (only with the Buddhas),
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:It spreads the flavour of the Highest Doctrine
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:And is free from the coverings (of the Obscurations),
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:Therefore it is like the Body of the Buddha,
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:Like honey and like the kernel of a fruit.
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<h6>Takasaki (1966) <ref>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.</ref></h6>
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:Being possessed of the unequalled properties,
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:Bringing forth the essence of the Highest Doctrine,
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:And being free from the outer covering [of Defilements],
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:It is like the Buddha, like honey and the kernel [of grains].
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<h6>Fuchs (2000) <ref>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.</ref></h6>
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:Since [enlightenment has] peerless properties,
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:since it bestows the taste of sacred Dharma,
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:and since it is free from the peel [of the veils],
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:it is like the Sugata, the honey, and the grain.
 
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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse II.15

Verse II.15 Variations

अतुल्यतुल्यधर्मत्वात् सद्धर्मरसदानतः
फल्गुव्यपगमात्तच्च सुगतक्षौद्रसारवत्
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
atulyatulyadharmatvāt saddharmarasadānataḥ
phalguvyapagamāttacca sugatakṣaudrasāravat
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
།མི་མཉམ་མཉམ་པའི་ཆོས་ཕྱིར་དང་།
།དམ་ཆོས་རོ་ནི་སྦྱིན་མཛད་དང་།
།ཤུན་པ་དང་ནི་བྲལ་ཕྱིར་དེ།
།བདེ་གཤེགས་སྦྲང་རྩི་སྙིང་པོ་བཞིན།
Dege, PHI, 125
Because it has the nature of being equal to the unequaled,
Because it bestows the taste of the genuine dharma,
And because it is free from what is useless,
It is like the Sugata, honey, and a kernel.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 418 [3]
Comme ses qualités égalent le sans-égal,
Qu’elle prodigue la saveur du vrai Dharma
Et qu’elle est libre de l’enveloppe [des voiles]
On compare [la bouddhéité] à un bouddha, au miel et à une graine.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།ཚིགས་{br}སུ་བཅད་པ་གཉིས་པོ་འདིའི་དོན་ནི་མདོར་བསྡུ་ན། ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་བརྒྱད་ཀྱིས་རིག་པར་བྱ་སྟེ། ཆུ་མཚོ་སོགས་བཞིན་འདོད་ཆགས་སོགས། །གློ་བུར་ཉོན་མོངས་དག་པ་ནི། །མདོར་ན་མི་རྟོག་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི། །འབྲས་བུ་ཡིན་པར་རབ་ཏུ་བརྗོད། །རྣམ་པ་ཀུན་གྱི་མཆོག་ལྡན་པའི། །{br}སངས་རྒྱས་སྐུ་ནི་ངེས་ཐོབ་པ། །དེ་ནི་རྗེས་ལས་ཐོབ་པ་ཡི། །ཡེ་ཤེས་འབྲས་བུ་ཡིན་པར་བསྟན། །འདོད་ཆགས་རྡུལ་ནི་སྤང་ཕྱིར་དང་། །གདུལ་བར་བྱ་བའི་པདྨ་ལ། །བསམ་གཏན་ཆུ་ནི་འབབ་ཕྱིར་དེ། །ཆུ་དང་རྫིང་དང་མཚུངས་པ་ཡིན། །ཞེ་སྡང་སྒྲ་གཅན་ལས་གྲོལ་བས། །སྙིང་རྗེ་{br}བྱམས་ཆེན་འོད་ཟེར་གྱིས། །འགྲོ་བ་ཁྱབ་པའི་ཕྱིར་ན་དེ། །དྲི་མེད་ཟླ་བ་ཉ་བ་བཞིན། །གཏི་མུག་སྤྲིན་ལས་རྣམ་གྲོལ་བས། །འགྲོ་བ་ཡེ་ཤེས་འོད་ཟེར་གྱིས། །མུན་པ་སེལ་ཕྱིར་སངས་རྒྱས་ཉིད། །དེ་ནི་དྲི་མེད་ཉི་མ་བཞིན། །མི་མཉམ་མཉམ་པའི་ཆོས་ཉིད་ཕྱིར། །དམ་ཆོས་རོ་ནི་{br}སྦྱིན་མཛད་དང་། །ཤུན་པ་དང་ནི་བྲལ་ཕྱིར་ཏེ། །བདེ་གཤེགས་སྦྲང་རྩིའི་སྙིང་པོ་བཞིན། །དག་ཕྱིར་ཡོན་ཏན་རྫས་ཀྱིས་ནི། །དབུལ་བ་སེལ་བར་བྱེད་ཕྱིར་དང་། །རྣམ་གྲོལ་འབྲས་བུ་སྨིན་བྱེད་ཕྱིར། །གསེར་དང་གཏེར་དང་ལྗོན་པ་བཞིན། །རིན་ཆེན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཕྱིར་དང་། །རྐང་གཉིས་{br}བདག་པོ་མཆོག་ཕྱིར་དང་། །རིན་ཆེན་གཟུགས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པའི་ཕྱིར། །དེ་ནི་རིན་ཆེན་རྒྱལ་གསེར་བཞིན།

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) [7]
It is possessed of properties incomparable (with others)
And equal (only with the Buddhas),
It spreads the flavour of the Highest Doctrine
And is free from the coverings (of the Obscurations),
Therefore it is like the Body of the Buddha,
Like honey and like the kernel of a fruit.
Takasaki (1966) [8]
Being possessed of the unequalled properties,
Bringing forth the essence of the Highest Doctrine,
And being free from the outer covering [of Defilements],
It is like the Buddha, like honey and the kernel [of grains].
Fuchs (2000) [9]
Since [enlightenment has] peerless properties,
since it bestows the taste of sacred Dharma,
and since it is free from the peel [of the veils],
it is like the Sugata, the honey, and the grain.

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Academic notes[edit]

  1. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
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  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. Skt. buddhabhāvanidarśanam, DP "The definite attainment of the buddhakāya" (sangs rgyas sku ni nges thob pa).
  5. VT (fol. 14r3) glosses "what is useless" (phalgu) as "husks" (tvak), which corresponds to DP shun pa.
  6. VT (fol. 14r4) says that "the very qualities are the substance [of buddhahood]."
  7. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.

ātman - Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena. Skt. आत्मन् Tib. བདག་ Ch. 我,灵魂

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

avidyā - Literally "unknowing," it refers to a lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of the nature of reality. As such, it is considered to be the root cause of suffering and the basis for the arising of all other negative mental factors. Skt. अविद्या Tib. མ་རིག་པ་ Ch. 無明

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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