Verse IV.90 Variations
मुनिर्नोदेति न व्येति शक्रवद्धर्मकायतः
munirnodeti na vyeti śakravaddharmakāyataḥ
སངས་རྒྱས་གཟུགས་ནི་སྐྱེ་དང་འཇིག །
བརྒྱ་བྱིན་བཞིན་དུ་ཐུབ་པ་ནི། །
ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཡི་སྐྱེ་འཇིག་མེད། །
The reflection of the Buddha arises and disappears,
But in terms of the dharmakāya, just like Śakra,
The sage neither arises nor disappears.
La forme des bouddhas apparaît et disparaît. Comme Indra, le corps absolu du Sage N’apparaît ni ne disparaît.
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Obermiller (1931) [9]
- In accordance with the origination and bereavement of virtue
- The form of the Buddha appears and disappears;
- But, similar to Indra, the Lord
- In his Cosmical Body neither becomes born, nor does he vanish.
Takasaki (1966) [10]
- Owing to the appearance and disappearance of purity,
- The forms of the Buddha appear and disappear;
- But, in his Body of the Absolute that is like Indra,
- The Lord does never appear nor disappear.
Fuchs (2000) [11]
- Since virtue arises and ceases,
- the form of a buddha arises and ceases.
- Like Indra, the Muni who is dharmakaya
- is free from arising and ceasing.
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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.
- DP take darśana as "seeing."
- I follow DP mi bzlog pa. VT (fol. 16v6) glosses asaṃhāryā as ātyantikī, which can mean "continual," "uninterrupted," "infinite," and "total."
- I follow Schmithausen’s emendation nānarthabījamuk (or °bījahṛt; supported by DP don med pa’i / sa bon spong min) of MA nānarthabījamut and MB nāna(?)rthabījavat against J no sārthabījavat.
- I follow MA, which contains the second negation na tat against J ca tat.
- I follow MA °saṃpadāṃ against J °saṃpadam.
- 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.