Verse III.12

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नोपेक्षाप्रतिसंख्याय हानिर्न च्छन्दवीर्यतः
स्मृतिप्रज्ञाविमुक्तिभ्यो विमुक्तिज्ञानदर्शनात्

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[1]

nopekṣāpratisaṃkhyāya hānirna cchandavīryataḥ
smṛtiprajñāvimuktibhyo vimuktijñānadarśanāt

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[2]

མ་བརྟགས་བཏང་སྙོམས་མི་མངའ་སྟེ། །
འདུན་དང་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་དྲན་པ་དང་། །
ཤེས་རབ་རྣམ་གྲོལ་རྣམ་གྲོལ་གྱི། །
ཡེ་ཤེས་གཟིགས་པ་ཉམས་མི་མངའ། །

Dege, PHI, 131

Lacks indifference without examination,
His striving, vigor, mindfulness,
Prajñā, liberation, and vision
Of the wisdom of liberation never deteriorate,

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 431 ^[3]

Et ne saurait être indifférent par manque de discernement.

Ses aspirations, son ardeur, son attention, Sa connaissance supérieure, sa liberté totale Et ce que voit sa libre sagesse ignorent le déclin.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་མ་འདྲེས་པ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། འཁྲུལ་དང་ཅ་ཅོ་མི་མངའ་སྟེ། །སྟོན་ལ་དྲན་པ་ཉམས་མི་མངའ། །མཉམ་པར་མ་བཞག་ཐུགས་མི་མངའ། །འདུ་ཤེས་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཀྱང་མི་མངའ། །མ་བརྟགས་{br}བཏང་སྙོམས་མི་མངའ་སྟེ། །འདུན་པ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་དྲན་པ་དང་། །ཤེས་རབ་རྣམ་གྲོལ་རྣམ་གྲོལ་གྱི། །ཡེ་ཤེས་གཟིགས་པ་ཉམས་མི་མངའ། །ལས་རྣམས་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྔོན་འགྲོ་དང་། །དུས་ལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྒྲིབ་པ་མེད། །དེ་ལྟར་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་འདི་དང་གཞན། །སྟོན་པའི་མ་{br}འདྲེས་ཡོན་ཏན་ཡིན། །འཁྲུལ་དང་ཅ་ཅོ་བསྙེལ་དང་ཐུགས་གཡོ་ཐ་དད་ཀྱི་ནི་འདུ་ཤེས་དང་། །ངང་གིས་བཏང་སྙོམས་དྲང་སྲོང་ལ་མེད་འདུན་པ་དང་ནི་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་དང་། །དྲན་དང་རྣམ་དག་དྲི་མེད་ཤེས་རབ་རྟག་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བ་དང་། །ཤེས་བྱའི་དོན་ཀུན་གཟིགས་པའི་གྲོལ་བའི་{br}ཡེ་ཤེས་ལས་ནི་ཉམས་མི་མངའ། །གང་གི་ལས་གསུམ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྔོན་འགྲོ་རྗེས་སུ་འཇུག་པ་དང་། །དུས་གསུམ་དག་ཏུ་ཐོགས་མེད་ངེས་པ་མཁྱེན་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེ་འཇུག་པ་སྟེ། །གང་རྟོགས་འགྲོ་བར་འཇིགས་མེད་དམ་ཆོས་འཁོར་ལོ་ཆེན་པོ་རབ་བསྐོར་བ། །ཐུགས་{br}རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་ལྡན་རྒྱལ་བ་ཉིད་དེ་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་བརྙེས།

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931) ^[11]

.He has no ill-considered indifference,

Knows no bereavement of his zeal, his energy, and his memory,

Of Highest Wisdom, of his freedom (from the Obscurations),

And of the intuition of this freedom.

Takasaki (1966) ^[12]

He is not indifferent, nor without consideration,

He knows no deprivation of his zeal, and of his energy,

Of his memory, of Transcendental Intellect, and of Liberation,

And of the intuition of this liberation; —

Fuchs (2000) ^[13]

There is no equanimity without analysis.

His aspiration, diligence, mindfulness,

and discriminative wisdom are unimpaired,

as are total release and its eye of wisdom.

Textual sources

Commentaries on this verse

Academic notes

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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.
VT (fol. 15v5) glosses "without examination" as "ignorance" and "liberation" as "liberation from the afflictions."
VT (fol. 15v5–6) glosses "actions" as those of body, speech, and mind.
VT (fol. 15v6) glosses "others" as love and so on."
Against J citte na saṃbhedataḥ, I follow VT (fol. 15v6) citteṅkhanaṃ bhedataḥ (corresponding to DP thugs g.yo tha dad), which is glossed as "unsteadiness of mind, meaning the mind that is not in meditative equipoise." Schmithausen suggests cittehitaṃ bhedataḥ [MB °taṃ is clear, while the preceding akṣara is illegible], which is similar in meaning.
DP omit "vision" (°nidarśanāc) and say "the wisdom of liberation that sees all objects to be known" (shes bya’i don kun gzigs pa’i grol ba’i ye shes).
DP gang gi/gis (yasya/yena) instead of artheṣu.
For the individual causes of the eighteen unique qualities according to the Ratnadārikāsūtra, see the note on III.11–15 in CMW.
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.

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[3] 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.

[4] VT (fol. 15v5) glosses "without examination" as "ignorance" and "liberation" as "liberation from the afflictions."

[5] VT (fol. 15v5–6) glosses "actions" as those of body, speech, and mind.

[6] VT (fol. 15v6) glosses "others" as love and so on."

[7] Against J citte na saṃbhedataḥ, I follow VT (fol. 15v6) citteṅkhanaṃ bhedataḥ (corresponding to DP thugs g.yo tha dad), which is glossed as "unsteadiness of mind, meaning the mind that is not in meditative equipoise." Schmithausen suggests cittehitaṃ bhedataḥ [MB °taṃ is clear, while the preceding akṣara is illegible], which is similar in meaning.

[8] DP omit "vision" (°nidarśanāc) and say "the wisdom of liberation that sees all objects to be known" (shes bya’i don kun gzigs pa’i grol ba’i ye shes).

[9] DP gang gi/gis (yasya/yena) instead of artheṣu.

[10] For the individual causes of the eighteen unique qualities according to the Ratnadārikāsūtra, see the note on III.11–15 in CMW.

[11] Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.

[12] 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.

[13] 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.

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+|EnglishCommentary=[There follow five verses about] the statement that [the Buddha] is endowed with the eighteen unique buddha attributes.
+::'''The teacher is without mistakenness and chatter''',
+::'''Is never bereft of mindfulness''',
+::'''Lacks a mind not resting in meditative equipoise''',
+::'''Is free from notions of diversity''', III.11
+::'''Lacks indifference without examination''',
+::'''His striving, vigor, mindfulness''',
+::'''Prajñā, liberation,<ref>VT (fol. 15v5) glosses "without examination" as "ignorance" and "liberation" as "liberation from the afflictions."</ref> and vision'''
+::'''Of the wisdom of liberation never deteriorate''', III.12
+::'''His actions<ref>VT (fol. 15v5–6) glosses "actions" as those of body, speech, and mind. </ref> are preceded by wisdom''',
+::'''And his wisdom in the three times is unobscured'''.
+::'''These eighteen are the guru’s qualities'''
+::'''That are unique compared to others'''.<ref>VT (fol. 15v6) glosses "others" as love and so on."</ref> III.13
+::'''The seer lacks mistakenness, chatter, mindlessness, mental agitation''',<ref>Against J citte na saṃbhedataḥ, I follow VT (fol. 15v6) ''citteṅkhanaṃ bhedataḥ'' (corresponding to DP ''thugs g.yo tha dad''), which is glossed as "unsteadiness of mind, meaning the mind that is not in meditative equipoise." Schmithausen suggests ''cittehitaṃ bhedataḥ'' [MB °''taṃ'' is clear, while the preceding akṣara is illegible], which is similar in meaning.</ref>
+::'''Notions of difference, and natural indifference, while there is never any deterioration''
+::'''Of his striving, vigor, mindfulness, pure stainless prajñā and liberation''',
+::'''And vision of the wisdom of liberation (seeing all objects to be known)'''.<ref>DP omit "vision" (°''nidarśanāc'') and say "the wisdom of liberation that sees all objects to be known" (''shes bya’i don kun gzigs pa’i grol ba’i ye shes'').</ref> III.14
+::'''He engages in the three actions with regard to objects<ref>DP ''gang gi/gis (yasya/yena)'' instead of ''artheṣu''.</ref> that are preceded by omniscience''',
+::'''And the operation of his vast wisdom is always unobstructed with regard to the three times.''' (J94)
+::'''Thus is this state of the victor, which is endowed with great compassion and realized by the victors.'''
+::'''By virtue of this realization, he fearlessly turns the great wheel of the genuine dharma in the world.'''<ref>For the individual causes of the eighteen unique qualities according to the ''Ratnadārikāsūtra'', see the note on III.11–15 in CMW.</ref> III.15
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+:.He has no ill-considered indifference,
+:Knows no bereavement of his zeal, his energy, and his memory,
+:Of Highest Wisdom, of his freedom (from the Obscurations),
+:And of the intuition of this freedom.
+<h6>Takasaki (1966) <ref>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.</ref></h6>
+:He is not indifferent, nor without consideration,
+:He knows no deprivation of his zeal, and of his energy,
+:Of his memory, of Transcendental Intellect, and of Liberation,
+:And of the intuition of this liberation; —
+<h6>Fuchs (2000) <ref>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.</ref></h6>
+:There is no equanimity without analysis.
+:His aspiration, diligence, mindfulness,
+:and discriminative wisdom are unimpaired,
+:as are total release and its eye of wisdom.
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