Verse III.3
From Buddha-Nature
Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse III.3
Verse III.3 Variations
विसंयोगगुणर्युक्तं वपुराद्यं बलादिभिः
वैपाकिकैर्द्वितीयं तु महापुरुषलक्षणैः
वैपाकिकैर्द्वितीयं तु महापुरुषलक्षणैः
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
visaṃyogaguṇaryuktaṃ vapurādyaṃ balādibhiḥ
vaipākikairdvitīyaṃ tu mahāpuruṣalakṣaṇaiḥ
vaipākikairdvitīyaṃ tu mahāpuruṣalakṣaṇaiḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
དང་པོའི་སྐུ་ནི་སྟོབས་ལ་སོགས། །
བྲལ་བའི་ཡོན་ཏན་རྣམས་དང་ལྡན། །
གཉིས་པ་སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་མཚན། །
རྣམ་སྨིན་ཡོན་ཏན་དག་དང་ལྡན། །
བྲལ་བའི་ཡོན་ཏན་རྣམས་དང་ལྡན། །
གཉིས་པ་སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་མཚན། །
རྣམ་སྨིན་ཡོན་ཏན་དག་དང་ལྡན། །
The first body is endowed with
The qualities of freedom, such as the powers,
And the second one, with those of maturation,
Which are the marks of a great being.
The qualities of freedom, such as the powers,
And the second one, with those of maturation,
Which are the marks of a great being.
- Le premier corps est doté des forces
- Et des autres qualités de séparation ;
- Le second possède les marques des grands êtres,
- Qui sont des qualités de maturation.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
RGVV Commentary on Verse III.3
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།འདི་ཅིས་བསྟན་ཞེ་ན། བདག་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ནི་འབྱོར་པའི་གནས། །
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་སྐུ་ཡིན་ཏེ། །དྲང་སྲོང་རྣམས་ཀྱི་བརྡ་ཡི་སྐུ། །ཕ་རོལ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པའི་གནས། །དང་པོའི་སྐུ་ནི་སྟོབས་ལ་སོགས། །བྲལ་བའི་ཡོན་ཏན་རྣམས་དང་ལྡན། །གཉིས་པ་སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་མཚན། །རྣམ་སྨིན་ཡོན་ཏན་དག་དང་ལྡན།
Other English translations[edit]
Obermiller (1931) [5]
- The first of these Bodies is possessed
- Of the Powers and other attributes of perfect purity,
- And the latter two (Bodies) are endowed
- With the properties of perfection,—the marks of the super-man.
Takasaki (1966) [6]
- The first Body is endowed with properties,
- [10] Powers and so forth, as [the result of] Liberation,
- And the second one, with [32] marks of superman,
- As the properties [obtained by] the Maturation [which follows after Liberation].
Fuchs (2000) [7]
- The first kaya has the qualities of freedom,
- which are the qualities of power and so on.
- The second has those of full maturation,
- which are the marks of a great being.
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Academic notes[edit]
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- 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.
- VT (fol. 15v1–2) again glosses "the first body" as the sambhogakāya and "the second one" as the nirmāṇakāya.
- Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
- 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.
- 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.
