Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse II.29
Verse II.29 Variations
अचिन्त्यं नित्यं च ध्रुवमथ शिवं शाश्वतमथ
प्रशान्तं च व्यापि व्यपगतविकल्पं गगनवत्
असक्तं सर्वत्रापरतिघपरुषस्पर्शविगतं
न दृश्यं न ग्राह्यं शुभमपि च बुद्धत्वममलम्
प्रशान्तं च व्यापि व्यपगतविकल्पं गगनवत्
असक्तं सर्वत्रापरतिघपरुषस्पर्शविगतं
न दृश्यं न ग्राह्यं शुभमपि च बुद्धत्वममलम्
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
acintyaṃ nityaṃ ca dhruvamatha śivaṃ śāśvatamatha
praśāntaṃ ca vyāpi vyapagatavikalpaṃ gaganavat
asaktaṃ sarvatrāparatighaparuṣasparśavigataṃ
na dṛśyaṃ na grāhyaṃ śubhamapi ca buddhatvamamalam
praśāntaṃ ca vyāpi vyapagatavikalpaṃ gaganavat
asaktaṃ sarvatrāparatighaparuṣasparśavigataṃ
na dṛśyaṃ na grāhyaṃ śubhamapi ca buddhatvamamalam
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
བསམ་མེད་རྟག་བརྟན་ཞི་བ་གཡུང་དྲུང་ཉིད། །
རབ་ཏུ་ཞི་ཁྱབ་རྟོག་བྲལ་ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན། །
ཆགས་མེད་ཀུན་ཏུ་ཐོགས་མེད་རྩུབ་རེག་སྤངས། །
ལྟ་གཟུང་མེད་དགེ་སངས་རྒྱས་དྲི་མ་མེད། །
རབ་ཏུ་ཞི་ཁྱབ་རྟོག་བྲལ་ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན། །
ཆགས་མེད་ཀུན་ཏུ་ཐོགས་མེད་རྩུབ་རེག་སྤངས། །
ལྟ་གཟུང་མེད་དགེ་སངས་རྒྱས་དྲི་མ་མེད། །
Buddhahood is inconceivable, permanent, everlasting, quiescent, eternal,
Peaceful, all-pervasive, and free from conception, just like space.
It is everywhere without attachment and obstruction, free from harsh sensations,
Invisible, ungraspable, splendid, and stainless.
Peaceful, all-pervasive, and free from conception, just like space.
It is everywhere without attachment and obstruction, free from harsh sensations,
Invisible, ungraspable, splendid, and stainless.
Inconcevable, permanent, stable, paisible, éternel,
Apaisé, omniprésent, libre de la pensée, pareil à l’espace, Libre d’attachement, nulle part entravé, sans plus de contacts grossiers, Invisible, insaisissable et vertueux, le Bouddha est immaculé.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
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Obermiller (1931) [5]
- Inconceivable, eternal, quiescent, indestructible,
- Perfectly pacified, all-pervading, free from (dialectical) construction, and akin to space,
- Free from attachment and impediments whatever, and devoid of rough sensation,
- Imperceptible, incognizable, sublime, immaculate,—such is the Buddha.
Takasaki (1966) [6]
- Being inconceivable, eternal and ever-lasting,
- Being quiescent, constant, and perfectly pacified,
- Being all-pervading and apart from discrimination,
- The pure and immaculate Buddhahood is like space,
- It has neither attachment nor hindrance anywhere,
- And, being devoid of rough sensation,
- It can be neither perceived nor cognized.
Fuchs (2000) [7]
- Buddhahood is inconceivable, permanent, steadfast, at peace, and immutable.
- It is utterly peaceful, pervasive, without thought, and unattached like space.
- It is free from hindrance and coarse objects of contact are eliminated.
- It cannot be seen or grasped. It is virtuous and free from pollution.
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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.
- I follow DP zhi ba (Skt. śivam, meaning "welfare," "prosperity," "bliss," "auspiciousness," "fortune," or "final liberation").
- 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.
།དེ་ལ་དོན་དམ་པའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ཀྱི་{br}ལྡན་པའི་དོན་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། བསམ་མེད་རྟག་བརྟན་ཞི་བ་གཡུང་དྲུང་ཉིད། །རབ་ཏུ་ཞི་ཁྱབ་རྟོག་བྲལ་ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན། །ཆགས་མེད་ཀུན་ཏུ་ཐོགས་མེད་རྩུབ་རེག་སྤངས། །བལྟ་གཟུང་མེད་དགེ་སངས་རྒྱས་དྲི་མ་མེད།