Verse IV.16

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|VariationOriginal=།དེ་ནས་སྐྱེས་པ་བུད་མེད་ཚོགས།<br>།ས་ཡི་སྟེང་ན་གནས་པ་རྣམས།<br>།སྣང་བ་དེ་ནི་མཐོང་གྱུར་ཏེ།<br>།ངེད་ཀྱང་རིང་པོར་མི་ཐོགས་པར།
|VariationOriginal=དེ་ནས་སྐྱེས་པ་བུད་མེད་ཚོགས། །<br>ས་ཡི་སྟེང་ན་གནས་པ་རྣམས། །<br>སྣང་བ་དེ་ནི་མཐོང་གྱུར་ཏེ། །<br>ངེད་ཀྱང་རིང་པོར་མི་ཐོགས་པར། །
|VariationOriginalSource=[https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/kdbs/degetengyur/pbs/2916191 Dege, PHI, 135]
|VariationOriginalSource=[https://adarsha.dharma-treasure.org/kdbs/degetengyur/pbs/2916191 Dege, PHI, 135]
|VariationTrans=Upon that, the assemblies of men and women<br>Who dwell on the ground of the earth<br>Would take sight of this appearance<br>And make the following prayer:
|VariationTrans=Upon that, the assemblies of men and women<br>Who dwell on the ground of the earth<br>Would take sight of this appearance<br>And make the following prayer:
|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 439 <ref>[[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.</ref>
|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 439 <ref>[[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.</ref>
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|EnglishCommentary=(1) [This sūtra] says that [buddha activity] resembles the appearance of Śakra.<ref>D100, fols. 278b.6–280b.1.</ref>
::'''Suppose the ground of the earth'''
::'''Consisted of pure beryl'''
::'''And, due to its clarity, one would see in it'''
::'''The chief of gods with his host of apsaras''' IV.14
::'''As well as his palace Vaijayanta''',
::'''Celestial dwellers other than him''',
::'''Their various palaces''',
::'''And their divine abundances'''. IV.15
::'''Upon that, the assemblies of men and women''' P128b)
::'''Who dwell on the ground of the earth'''
::'''Would take sight of this appearance'''
::'''And make the following prayer:''' IV.16
::'''"May we too before long'''
::'''Become like that lord of gods!"'''
::'''Then, in order to attain that [state]''', (D123a)
::'''They would immerse themselves in adopting virtue'''. IV.17
::'''Though being unaware that this'''
::'''Was merely an appearance, they would pass away'''
::'''From the earth and be born in heaven'''
::'''By virtue of their pure karma'''. IV.18
::'''Though this appearance would be absolutely'''
::'''Without thought and without activity''',
::'''Its taking place on the earth in that way'''
::'''Would nevertheless be of great benefit'''. IV.19
::'''Likewise, sentient beings see in their own mind''',
::'''Once it is stainless through confidence and such'''
::'''And has cultivated the qualities such as confidence''',
::'''The appearance of the perfect Buddha''', IV.20
::'''Who is endowed with the major and minor marks''',
::'''Performs the various forms of conduct'''
::'''(Walking, standing''',
::'''Sitting, and lying)''', IV.21 (J101)
::'''Speaks the dharma of peace''',
::'''Rests silently in meditative equipoise''',
::'''Demonstrates all kinds of miraculous displays''',
::'''And possesses great splendor'''. IV.22
::'''Having seen it, those who long for it'''
::'''Devote their efforts to this buddhahood'''
::'''And, through adopting its causes,'''
::'''Attain the state they wish for.''' IV.23
::'''Though this appearance is absolutely'''
::'''Without thought and without activity,
::'''Its taking place in the worlds'''
::'''Is nevertheless of great benefit'''. IV.24
::'''Ordinary beings do not understand'''
::'''That this is an appearance in their own minds'''.
::'''Nevertheless, to see this image'''
::'''Becomes fruitful for them.''' IV.25
::'''Gradually, based on seeing that [appearance]''',
::'''Those who dwell in this method'''<ref>DP "yāna."</ref>
::'''See the inner kāya of the genuine dharma'''<ref>I follow MB ''saddharmakāyam adhyātmaṃ'' (corresponding to DP ''nang gi dam pa’i chos sku'') against J ''saddharmakāyaṃ madhyasthaṃ''.</ref>
::'''Through their eye of wisdom.''' IV.26
::'''Suppose the earth became completely free from all uneven places, gaps, and dirt'''<ref>With Schmithausen and against Takasaki, I take the compound °''viṣamasthānāntaramala'' as consisting of ''viṣamasthāna, antara'', and ''mall''.</ref>
::'''And were a surface of clear and spotless<ref>VT (fol. 16r4) glosses ''śubhra'' as "clear, transparent" (''svacchā''). ''Śubhra'' can also mean "radiant," "splendid," "spotless," and "bright"; DP have ''mazes pa''. </ref> beryl, with the stainless qualities of a jewel, splendid, and even.'''
::'''Due to its purity, a reflection of the array of the abode of the lord of gods, Indra [himself], and the maruts<ref>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.</ref> would appear in it''',
::'''But since the earth would gradually lose those qualities, (P129a) [that reflection] would disappear again'''. IV.27
::'''In order [to attain] this state, the assemblies of men and women who are devoted to generosity and such''',
::'''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]<ref>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.</ref> with a joyful mind'''. IV.28
::'''Just as on the pure ground of beryl''' (D123b)
::'''The reflection of the body of the lord of gods appears''',
::'''On the pure ground of the minds of beings''',
::'''The reflection of the body of the lord of sages is displayed'''. IV.29 (J102)
::'''The appearance and disappearance of this reflection manifests in the world'''
::'''Through the power of one’s own mind manifesting in a clear or turbid way'''.
::'''Just as the appearance of a reflection in the worlds::''',
::'''It should not be regarded as either real or unreal'''. IV.30
|OtherTranslations=<h6>Obermiller (1931) <ref>Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.</ref></h6>
:Suppose then, that multitudes of men and women,
:Abiding on that surface of the earth,
:Would come to see the vision,
:And utter the following entreaty:
<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>
:Suppose then, the multitudes of men and women
:Abiding on this surface of the earth,
:Would perceive this vision
:And make the following prayer:
<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>
:Once the assembly of men and women
:who inhabit the surface of the earth
:saw this appearance, each would say:
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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.16

Verse IV.16 Variations

अथ नारीनरगणा महीतलनिवासिनः
प्रतिभासं तमालोक्य प्रणिधिं कुर्युरीदृशम्
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
atha nārīnaragaṇā mahītalanivāsinaḥ
pratibhāsaṃ tamālokya praṇidhiṃ kuryurīdṛśam
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
དེ་ནས་སྐྱེས་པ་བུད་མེད་ཚོགས། །
ས་ཡི་སྟེང་ན་གནས་པ་རྣམས། །
སྣང་བ་དེ་ནི་མཐོང་གྱུར་ཏེ། །
ངེད་ཀྱང་རིང་པོར་མི་ཐོགས་པར། །
Dege, PHI, 135
Upon that, the assemblies of men and women
Who dwell on the ground of the earth
Would take sight of this appearance
And make the following prayer:
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 439 [3]
À la vue de ces apparences,

Les hommes et les femmes Qui peuplent la terre Forment le souhait

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

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།བརྒྱ་བྱིན་དུ་སྣང་བ་བཞིན་ནོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། ཇི་{br}ལྟར་བཻ་ཌཱུར་དག་པ་ཡི། །རང་བཞིན་ས་སྟེངས་འདིར་འགྱུར་ཏེ། །དག་ཕྱིར་ལྷ་ཡི་དབང་པོ་དེར། །ལྷ་ཡི་བུ་མོའི་ཚོགས་དང་བཅས། །རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་ཁང་བཟངས་དང་། །ལྷ་གནས་དེ་ལས་གཞན་དག་དང་། །དེ་ཡི་གཞལ་ཡས་སྣ་ཚོགས་དང་། །ལྷ་རྫས་རྣམ་མང་དེ་{br}མཐོང་ངོ། །དེ་ནས་སྐྱེས་པ་བུད་མེད་ཚོགས། །ས་ཡི་སྟེང་ན་གནས་པ་རྣམས། །སྣང་བ་དེ་ནི་མཐོང་གྱུར་ཏེ། །ངེད་ཀྱང་རིང་པོར་མི་ཐོགས་པར། །ལྷ་དབང་འདི་འདྲར་གྱུར་ཅིག་ཅེས། །འདི་འདྲའི་སྨོན་ལམ་འདེབས་བྱེད་ཅིང་། །དེ་ཐོབ་དོན་དུ་དགེ་བ་ནི། །ཡང་
དག་བླངས་ཏེ་གནས་པར་འགྱུར། །དེ་དག་དགེ་བའི་ལས་དེས་ན། །འདི་སྣང་ཙམ་ཞེས་དེ་ལྟ་བུར། །ཤེས་པ་མེད་ཀྱང་ས་སྟེང་ན། །འཕོས་ཏེ་ལྷར་ནི་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར། །སྣང་བ་དེ་ནི་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཡང་། །རྟོགས་པ་མེད་ཅིང་གཡོ་བ་མེད། །དེ་ལྟ་མོད་ཀྱི་ས་སྟེངས་ན། །{br}དོན་ཆེན་གྱིས་ནི་ཉེ་བར་གནས། །དེ་བཞིན་དད་སོགས་དྲི་མེད་ཅན། །དད་སོགས་ཡོན་ཏན་སྒོམ་པ་ཡི། །རང་སེམས་ལ་སྣང་རྫོགས་སངས་རྒྱས། །མཚན་དང་དཔེ་བྱད་དང་ལྡན་པ། །འཆག་པ་དང་ནི་བཞེངས་པ་དང་། །བཞུགས་པ་དང་ནི་གཟིམས་པ་དང་། །སྤྱོད་ལམ་སྣ་{br}ཚོགས་མཛེས་པ་ཅན། །ཞི་བའི་ཆོས་ནི་གསུང་བ་དང་། །མི་གསུང་མཉམ་པར་གཞག་གྱུར་པ། །ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་རྣམ་པ་སྣ་ཚོགས་དག །མཛད་པ་གཟི་མདངས་ཆེན་པོ་ཅན། །སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་མཐོང་བར་འགྱུར། །དེ་མཐོང་ནས་ཀྱང་འདོད་ལྡན་པ། །སངས་རྒྱས་ཉིད་ཕྱིར་རབ་{br}སྦྱོར་ཏེ། །དེ་རྒྱུ་ཡང་དག་བླངས་ནས་ནི། །འདོད་པའི་གོ་འཕང་ཐོབ་པར་བྱེད། །སྣང་བ་དེ་ནི་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཡང་། །རྟོག་མེད་གཡོ་བ་མེད་པ་ཉིད། །དེ་ལྟ་ན་ཡང་འཇིག་རྟེན་ན། །དོན་ཆེན་པོས་ནི་ཉེ་བར་གནས། །འདི་ནི་རང་སེམས་སྣང་བ་ཞེས། །སོ་སོའི་སྐྱེ་བོས་མི་ཤེས་མོད། །དེ་ལྟ་ན་{br}ཡང་གཟུགས་མཐོང་སྟེ། །དེ་དག་ལ་ནི་དོན་ཡོད་འགྱུར། །རིམ་གྱིས་དེ་མཐོང་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས། །ཐེག་པ་འདི་ལ་གནས་པ་རྣམས། །ནང་གི་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་སྐུ་ནི། །ཡེ་ཤེས་མིག་གིས་མཐོང་བར་འགྱུར། །ཇི་ལྟར་ས་ཀུན་དམན་པའི་གནས་གཞན་དང་བྲལ་དྲི་མེད་བཻ་ཌཱུརྱ། །གསལ་མཛེས་{br}ནོར་བུའི་ཡོན་ཏན་དྲི་བྲལ་དཔལ་ལྡན་སྟེང་ནི་མཉམ་གྱུར་ཏེ། །དག་ཕྱིར་དེར་ནི་ལྷ་དག་གནས་ཚོགས་ལྷ་དབང་ལྷ་ཡི་གཟུགས་ཤར་ཏེ། །རིམ་གྱིས་ས་ཡི་ཡོན་ཏན་བྲལ་ཕྱིར་དེ་ནི་སླར་ཡང་མི་སྣང་འགྱུར། །དེ་དངོས་ཐོབ་ཕྱིར་བསྙེན་གནས་བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་ངེས་པར་སྦྱིན་སོགས་ལ་ཕྱོགས་པ། །{br}བུད་མེད་སྐྱེས་ཚོགས་སྨོན་པའི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་མེ་ཏོག་ལ་སོགས་འཐོར་བ་ལྟར། །དག་པའི་བཻ་ཌཱུརྱ་འདྲ་སེམས་ལ་སྣང་བའི་ཐུབ་དབང་ཐོབ་བྱའི་ཕྱིར། །རབ་དགའི་སེམས་ལྡན་རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲས་རྣམས་དེ་བཞིན་སེམས་རབ་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད། །ཇི་ལྟར་བཻ་ཌཱུར་ས་གཞི་གཙང་མ་ལ། །ལྷ་
དབང་ལུས་ཀྱི་གཟུགས་བརྙན་སྣང་བ་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་འགྲོ་སེམས་ས་གཞི་གཙང་མ་ལ། །ཐུབ་པའི་དབང་པོའི་སྐུ་ཡི་གཟུགས་བརྙན་འཆར། །འགྲོ་བར་གཟུགས་བརྙན་འཆར་ནུབ་རྙོག་མེད་དང་། །རྙོག་པའི་རང་སེམས་རབ་འཇུག་དབང་གིས་འཇུག །ཇི་ལྟར་འཇིག་རྟེན་དག་ན་{br}གཟུགས་སྣང་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་ཡོད་དང་ཞིག་ཅེས་དེ་མི་ལྟ།

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931) [11]
Suppose then, that multitudes of men and women,
Abiding on that surface of the earth,
Would come to see the vision,
And utter the following entreaty:
Takasaki (1966) [12]
Suppose then, the multitudes of men and women
Abiding on this surface of the earth,
Would perceive this vision
And make the following prayer:
Fuchs (2000) [13]
Once the assembly of men and women
who inhabit the surface of the earth
saw this appearance, each would say:

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Academic notes

  1. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  2. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  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. D100, fols. 278b.6–280b.1.
  5. DP "yāna."
  6. I follow MB saddharmakāyam adhyātmaṃ (corresponding to DP nang gi dam pa’i chos sku) against J saddharmakāyaṃ madhyasthaṃ.
  7. With Schmithausen and against Takasaki, I take the compound °viṣamasthānāntaramala as consisting of viṣamasthāna, antara, and mall.
  8. VT (fol. 16r4) glosses śubhra as "clear, transparent" (svacchā). Śubhra can also mean "radiant," "splendid," "spotless," and "bright"; DP have mazes pa.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  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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