Verse I.103 Variations
र्मधूपमं धातुमिमं विलोक्य
तदावृतीनां भ्रमरोपमाना-
मश्लेषमात्यन्तिकमादधाति
rmadhūpamaṃ dhātumimaṃ vilokya
tadāvṛtīnāṃ bhramaropamānā-
maśleṣamātyantikamādadhāti
རིག་ཁམས་སྦྲང་རྩི་དང་འདྲ་དེ་གཟིགས་ནས། །
དེ་ཡི་སྒྲིབ་པ་སྦྲང་མ་དང་འདྲ་བ། །
གཏན་ནས་རབ་ཏུ་སྤོང་བར་མཛད་པ་ཡིན། །
Which he perceives with his omniscient eye, is like honey
And thus accomplishes the complete removal
Of its obscurations that are like bees.
L’Élément de connaissance comparable au miel, N’a de cesse que d’éliminer à jamais Les voiles ici comparés à des abeilles.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Similarly, the Greatest of Sages with his vision of Omniscience,
- Sees this fundamental Essence, resembling honey,
- And brings about the complete removal
- Of the Obscurations that are like the bees.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Similarly, the Great Sage, possessed of the eyes of the Omniscience,
- Perceiving this Essence known as akin to honey,
- Accomplishes the non-connection of the Essence
- With the bees-like obscurations, completely.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Likewise, when his eye of omniscience
- sees the honey-like element of awareness,
- the Great Sage causes its bee-like veils
- to be fully and radically abandoned.
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- Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
- 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.
- 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.