Verse I.50

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.50

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Verse I.50 Variations

तद्दोषगुणनिष्ठासु व्यापि सामान्यलक्षणम्
हीनमध्यविशिष्टेषु व्योम रूपगतेष्विव

taddoṣaguṇaniṣṭhāsu vyāpi sāmānyalakṣaṇam
hīnamadhyaviśiṣṭeṣu vyoma rūpagateṣviva

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

དེ་སྤྱིའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ཉེས་པ་དང་། །
ཡོན་ཏན་མཐར་ཐུག་ཁྱབ་པ་སྟེ། །
གཟུགས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པ་དམན་པ་དང་། །
བར་མ་མཆོག་ལ་ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན། །

Dege, PHI, 113

[Its] general characteristic is that it pervades
Flaws, qualities, and perfection,
Just as space [pervades] inferior, middling,
And supreme kinds of forms.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 373

過功德畢竟 遍至及同相

下中勝眾生 如虛空中色

http://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/en/T31n1611_p0832b10

Ce caractère général imprègne

Les défauts, les qualités et l’ultime,

À l’image de l’espace [qui pénètre] toute forme

Inférieure, moyenne ou supérieure.

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

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What is taught by this?

[Its] general characteristic is that it pervades

Flaws, qualities, and perfection,

Just as space [pervades] inferior, middling,

And supreme kinds of forms. I.50

The nonconceptual nature of the mind of ordinary beings, noble ones, and perfect buddhas is their general characteristic. Therefore, it penetrates, enters, is the same as, is not different from, and is always present in these three phases of flaws, qualities, and the perfection of the purity of these qualities, {D97a} just as space [pervades] earthen, silver, and golden vessels [alike]. Therefore, immediately after the instruction on the three phases, that same [sūtra] says:

Therefore, Śāriputra, the basic element of sentient beings is not other and the dharmakāya is not other. {P100b} Nothing but the basic element of sentient beings is the dharmakāya, and nothing but the dharmakāya is the basic element of sentient beings. In terms of their meaning, they are not two. They are different in letter only.

anena kiṃ darśitam/

taddoṣaguṇaniṣṭhāsu vyāpi sāmānyalakṣaṇam/

hīnamadhyaviśiṣṭeṣu vyoma rūpagateṣviva//50//

yāsau pṛthagjanāryasaṃbuddhānāmavikalpacittaprakṛtiḥ sā tisṛṣvavasthāsu yathākramaṃ doṣeṣvapi guṇeṣvapi guṇaviśuddhiniṣṭhāyāmapi sāmānyalakṣaṇatvādākāśamiva mṛdrajatasuvarṇabhājaneṣvanugatānupraviṣṭā samā nirviśiṣṭā prāptā sarvakālam/ ata evāvasthānirdeśānantaramāha/ tasmācchāriputra nānyaḥ sattvadhāturnānyo dharmakāyaḥ/ sattvadhātureva dharmakāyaḥ/ dharmakāya eva sattvadhātuḥ/ advayametadarthena/ vyañjanamātrabheda iti

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Obermiller (1931)

It penetrates, in its general essence,

The defective, the virtuous, and the ultimate point (of perfection),

Just as space embraces all visible forms,

The base, the intermediate, and the sublime.

Takasaki (1966)

It pervades with common feature

The defective, the virtuous and the ultimate,

Just as space occupies all the visible forms,

Either inferior, middle, or superior.

Holmes (1985)

This, the general characteristic of all,

permeates the good, the bad and the ultimate,

like space permeates all forms

whether lesser, mediocre or perfect.

Holmes (1999)

This, the general characteristic of all,

permeates the faulty, the noble and the ultimate,

just as space permeates all forms

whether lesser, mediocre or perfect.

Fuchs (2000)

As the general feature [of everything], it embraces [those with]

faults,

[those with] qualities, and [those in whom the qualities are]

ultimate

just as space [pervades everything] visible,

be it of inferior, average, or supreme appearance.

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