Verse IV.56 Variations
ब्रह्मा यथा भासम् उपैत्य् अयत्नान् निर्माणकायेन तथा स्वयंभूः
brahmā yathā bhāsam upaity ayatnān nirmāṇakāyena tathā svayaṃbhūḥ
ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ནི་དགེ་བའི་མཐུས། །
ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་པ་འབད་མེད་སྣང་། །
རང་བྱུང་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་དེ་བཞིན་ནོ། །
And as a result of the virtues of the gods,
Brahmā manifests his appearance without effort,
So does the self-arisen one by means of the nirmāṇakāya.
Et celui des actes vertueux des êtres divins, Brahma se manifeste sans effort. De même en est-il Pour les corps d’apparition de celui qui est né de lui-même.
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Obermiller (1931) [5]
- As owing to the vows of Brahma himself9
- His vision is perceived without effort,
- So is the Apparitional form (of the Buddha),
- Which becomes originated by itself.
Takasaki (1966) [6]
- Because of his own original vow,
- And of the pure experiences of the multitudes of gods,
- Brahmā manifests his apparition without any effort;
- Similar is the Buddha, by means of his Apparitional Body.
Fuchs (2000) [7]
- By his own former wishing prayers
- and the power of the virtue of the gods
- Brahma appears without deliberate effort.
- So does the self-sprung illusory kaya.
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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.
- Jñānālokālaṃkārasūtra, D100, fols. 283a.5–284b.5.
- 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.