Verse I.34

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.34

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Verse I.34 Variations

बीजं येषामग्रयानाधिमुक्ति-
र्माता प्रज्ञा बुद्धधर्मप्रसूत्यै
गर्भस्थानं ध्यानसौख्यं कृपोक्ता
धात्री पुत्रास्तेऽनुजाता मुनीनाम्

bījaṃ yeṣāmagrayānādhimukti-
rmātā prajñā buddhadharmaprasūtyai
garbhasthānaṃ dhyānasaukhyaṃ kṛpoktā
dhātrī putrāste'nujātā munīnām

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

ཐེག་མཆོག་ལ་མོས་ས་བོན་ཤེས་རབ་ནི། །
སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་བསྐྱེད་མ་དང་བསམ་གཏན་གྱི། །
བདེ་བའི་མངལ་གནས་སྙིང་རྗེའི་མ་མ་ཅན། །
གང་ཡིན་དེ་དག་ཐུབ་པའི་རྗེས་སྐྱེས་སྲས། །

Dege, PHI, 111

Those whose seed is the faith in the supreme yāna,
Whose mother is the prajñā that gives birth to the buddha qualities,
Whose womb is blissful samādhi, and whose nanny is compassion
Are the children who take after the sages.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 361

大乘信為子 般若以為母

禪胎大悲乳 諸佛如實子

http://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/en/T31n1611_p0829b05

Ceux qui ont eu pour graine l’aspiration au véhicule suprême,

Pour mère la connaissance qui produit les qualités des bouddhas,

Pour matrice la félicité de la concentration,

et pour nourrice la compassion,

Ceux-là sont assurément les enfants et les successeurs des Sages.

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

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།ཇི་ལྟར་ཞེ་ན། ཐེག་

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མཆོག་ལ་མོས་ས་བོན་ཤེས་རབ་ནི། །སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་བསྐྱེད་མ་དང་བསམ་གཏན་གྱི། །བདེ་བའི་མངལ་གནས་སྙིང་རྗེའི་མ་མ་ཅན། །གང་ཡིན་དེ་དག་ཐུབ་པའི་རྗེས་སྐྱེས་སྲས།

How is that? {D90b}

Those whose seed is the faith in the supreme yāna,

Whose mother is the prajñā that gives birth to the buddha qualities, {J30}

Whose womb is blissful samādhi, and whose nanny is compassion

Are the children who take after the sages. I.34

kathamiti/

bījaṃ yeṣāmagrayānādhimukti-

rmātā prajñā buddhadharmaprasūtyai/

garbhasthānaṃ dhyānasaukhyaṃ kṛpoktā

dhātrī putrāste'nujātā munīnām//34//

是故偈言

大乘信為子 般若以為母 禪胎大悲乳 諸佛如實子

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

Those are the sons of the Lord,

Whose seed is the faith in the Highest of Vehicles,

Whose mother is the Wisdom that gives birth to the properties of the Buddha,

Who abide in the blissful womb of meditative trance and are nursed by Great Commiseration.

Takasaki (1966)

Those whose seed is the faith in the highest Vehicle,

Whose mother is the transcendental Intellect,

On account of the origination of Buddha's Doctrine;

Whose abiding womb is the blissful meditation

And whose nurse is called Mercy;

They are the sons, the after-comers of the Buddhas.

Fuchs (2000)

Those whose seed is devotion towards the supreme vehicle,

whose mother is analytical wisdom generating the buddha qualities,

whose abode is the blissful womb of meditative stability,

and whose nurse is compassion, are heirs born to succeed the Muni.

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bīja - A seed, commonly used figuratively in the sense of something which has the potential to develop or grow, and likewise as the basic cause for this development or growth. Skt. बीज Tib. ས་བོན་ Ch. 無漏種