Verse IV.39 Variations
तथागतानां तु रुतं महात्मनां समाधिचित्तार्पणभाववाचकम्
tathāgatānāṃ tu rutaṃ mahātmanāṃ samādhicittārpaṇabhāvavācakam
སེམས་ཀྱི་རྒོད་པ་འཕེལ་བར་འགྱུར་བའི་རྒྱུ། །
ཐུགས་རྗེའི་བདག་ཉིད་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་གསུང་། །
ཏིང་འཛིན་སེམས་གཏོད་བསམ་པ་སྐུལ་བྱེད་ཉིད། །
Are the causes for increasing mind’s agitation,
But the voice of the magnanimous tathāgatas
Encourages the intention of entrusting the mind to samādhi.
D’un charme exquis augmente l’agitation mentale habituelle. La parole des tathāgatas, compassion incarnée, incite À réfléchir et à méditer jusqu’au recueillement profond.
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Obermiller (1931) [8]
- Amongst the gods, the sweet and pleasant sounds of their music
- Only enhance the emotion of the mind,
- (On the contrary) the voice of the merciful Buddha
- Summons one to give up the mind
- To the practice of profound meditation.
Takasaki (1966) [9]
- The sounds of cymbals in heaven, though they be pure and pleasant,
- Are the causes for increasing the elation of mind,
- The voice of the great Buddhas, however,
- Speaks of the concentration of mind in meditation.
Fuchs (2000) [10]
- The beautiful and bewitching sound of the cymbals
- causes among the gods increase of their distraction,
- whereas the speech of the compassionate Tathagata
- exhorts [us] to reflect and commits the mind to samadhi.
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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 Takasaki’s emendation of MB saṃbuddhabhūmer upayāti to saṃbuddhabherer upayāti (supported by the context and DP snags rgyas rnga sera). J saṃbuddhatūryasya tu yāti makes no sense here.
- I follow Schmithausen’s reading of MB saṃsārapātālagate tu against J saṃsārapātālagateṣu.
- With de Jong, I follow DP ting ’dzin sems gtod bsam pa skul byed nyid, thus emending °bhāvavācakam to °bhāvacodakam.
- I follow MB tatparyāpannasarvasattva° against J tatparyāpannaṃ sarvasattva° (DP de rtogs is a misspelling of de gtogs).
- 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.