Verse IV.28 Variations
पुष्पादीनि क्षिपेयुः प्रणिहितमनसो नारीनरगणाः
वैडूर्यस्वच्छभुते मनसि मुनिपतिच्छायाधिगमने
चित्राण्युत्पादयन्ति प्रमुदितमनसस्तद्वज्जिनसुताः
puṣpādīni kṣipeyuḥ praṇihitamanaso nārīnaragaṇāḥ
vaiḍūryasvacchabhute manasi munipaticchāyādhigamane
citrāṇyutpādayanti pramuditamanasastadvajjinasutāḥ
བུད་མེད་སྐྱེས་ཚོགས་སྨོན་པའི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་མེ་ཏོག་ལ་སོགས་འཐོར་བ་ལྟར། །
དག་པ་བཻ་ཌཱུརྱ་འདྲའི་སེམས་ལ་སྣང་བའི་ཐུབ་དབང་ཐོབ་བྱའི་ཕྱིར། །
རབ་དགའི་སེམས་ལྡན་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲས་རྣམས་དེ་བཞིན་སེམས་རབ་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད། །
Through observing the rules of fasting and spiritual discipline and with a determined mind, would strew flowers and so on.
Likewise, for the sake of attaining the reflection of the lord of sages in their minds, which resemble a transparent beryl,
The children of the victors give rise to the mind-sets [of awakening] with a joyful mind.
les préceptes d’un jour et les règles de conduite. Ils opteraient pour le don et les autres vertus Et, formant de pieux souhaits, ils prieraient en répandant des fleurs et [en s’adonnant à d’] autres [dévotions]. (IV, 28ab)
De même, pour atteindre l’état du Seigneur des Sages
qui apparaît dans leur l’esprit pareil à un pur lapis-lazuli,
Pleins d’une douce allégresse, les enfants des Vainqueurs
engendrent l’esprit d’Éveil. (IV, 28cd)
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Obermiller (1931) [11]
- However, anxious to attain (the desired state),
- Devoting themselves to worship,
- To obeissances, charity and the like,
- The multitudes of men and women
- Would offer flowers with minds full of sublime desire.
- Like that, in order to attain (the state of) the Lord of Sages,
- Whose form appears in the mind as in a pure Vaiḍūrya stone,
- The sons of the Buddha, with minds full of delight,
- Direct their minds toward Supreme Enlightenment.
Takasaki (1966) [12]
- For obtaining that state, the multitudes of men and women,
- Whose mind intends to perform charity and the rest,
- Through observing rules regarding fast and conduct,
- Would scatter flowers with minds full of sublime desire.
- Similarly, for obtaining the shadow of the Lord of Sages
- On their mind which is radiant like the Vaiḍūrya stone,
- The sons of the Buddha, with minds full of delight,
- Produce various pictures [showing the Buddha's life, etc.]
Fuchs (2000) [13]
- Yet, for their real attainment the men and women
- would side with the vows of individual release,
- with penitence, authentic giving, and so forth,
- scattering flowers and so on with longing minds.
- Likewise, to attain the state of a Lord of Munis shining forth in their
- minds, which is similar to pure lapis lazuli,
- the heirs of the Victor, their vision filled with sheer delight, give rise
- to bodhichitta in the most perfect manner.
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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.
- D100, fols. 278b.6–280b.1.
- DP "yāna."
- I follow MB saddharmakāyam adhyātmaṃ (corresponding to DP nang gi dam pa’i chos sku) against J saddharmakāyaṃ madhyasthaṃ.
- With Schmithausen and against Takasaki, I take the compound °viṣamasthānāntaramala as consisting of viṣamasthāna, antara, and mall.
- VT (fol. 16r4) glosses śubhra as "clear, transparent" (svacchā). Śubhra can also mean "radiant," "splendid," "spotless," and "bright"; DP have mazes pa.
- I follow Schmithausen’s suggested reading of MB surapatibhavanavyūhendramarutām against J surapatibhavanaṃ māhendramarutām, with °vyūha being supported by D tshogs (P mistakenly has sna tshogs instead of gas tshogs). The maruts are the storm gods who are the retinue of Indra.
- I follow de Jong’s suggested reading cittāny udpādayanti (supported by D seems rab bskyed byed; P mistakenly has gshegs instead of seems) against J cittān vyutpādayanti and Chowdury’s "correction" citrāṇy utpādayanati (see de Jong 1968, 50). Obviously, this refers to all the kinds of mind-sets that represent or flow from bodhicitta.
- 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.