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|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 403-404 <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]], 403-404 <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=What is this threefold nature? | |||
::'''Its nature is the dharmakāya''', | |||
::'''Suchness, and also the disposition''', | |||
::'''Which are to be understood through''' {D110b} | |||
::'''Three illustrations, one, and five, respectively'''. I.144 | |||
'''Through''' the three examples of a buddha image, honey, and a kernel, the basic element '''is to be''' comprehended as having the '''nature''' of '''the dharmakāya'''; through the '''one''' example of gold, as having the nature of suchness; and through the five examples of a treasure, a tree, a precious statue, a cakravartin, and a golden image, {J70} as having the nature of '''the disposition''' for the arising of the three kinds of buddhakāyas. | |||
|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> | |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> | ||
:Its nature is that of the Cosmical Body, | :Its nature is that of the Cosmical Body, |
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Verse I.144 Variations
त्रिभिरेकेन स ज्ञेयः पञ्चभिश्च निदर्शनैः
tribhirekena sa jñeyaḥ pañcabhiśca nidarśanaiḥ
།དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དང་རིགས་ཀྱང་སྟེ།
།དེ་ནི་དཔེ་གསུམ་གཅིག་དང་ནི།
།ལྔ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ནི་ཤེས་པར་བྱ།
Suchness, and also the disposition,
Which are to be understood through
Three illustrations, one, and five, respectively.
L’ainsité et la filiation que l’on reconnaîtra Successivement dans trois comparaisons, Puis dans une seule et enfin dans cinq.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Its nature is that of the Cosmical Body,
- Of the Absolute, and the lineage of the Buddha;
- These are to be known by three,
- By one, and by five examples (respectively).
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- The Nature of this [Essence] is the Absolute Body,
- The Reality, as well as the Germ,
- Which is known by the examples,
- Three, one and five, [respectively].
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Its nature is dharmakaya, suchness,
- and also the disposition. These are to be
- known by the [first] three examples,
- the [fourth] one, and the [following] five.
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- Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
- 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.
- 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.