Verse I.146

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.146

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Verse I.146 Variations

लोकोत्तरत्वाल्लोकेऽस्य दृष्टान्तानुपलब्धितः
धातोस्तथागतेनैव सादृश्यमुपपपादितम्

lokottaratvālloke'sya dṛṣṭāntānupalabdhitaḥ
dhātostathāgatenaiva sādṛśyamupapapāditam

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

།འཇིག་རྟེན་འདས་ཕྱིར་འཇིག་རྟེན་ན།
།འདི་ལ་དཔེ་ནི་མི་དམིགས་པས།
།དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཉིད་དང་ཁམས།
།འདྲ་བ་ཉིད་དུ་བསྟན་པ་ཡིན།

Dege, PHI, 122

By virtue of its being beyond the world,
No example for it can be observed in the world.
Therefore, the basic element is shown
To resemble the Tathāgata.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 404 ^[2]

Bien au-delà du monde,

Rien ne lui ressemble dans le monde. Voilà montrée la similitude De l’Élément et du Tathāgata.

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

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།འཇིག་རྟེན་འདས་ཕྱིར་འཇིག་རྟེན་ན། །འདི་ལ་དཔེ་ནི་མི་དམིགས་པས། །དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཉིད་དང་ཁམས། །འདྲ་བ་ཉིད་དུ་བསྟན་པ་ཡིན། །ཕྲ་མོ་ཟབ་མོའི་ཚུལ་བསྟན་ནི། །སྦྲང་རྩི་རོ་གཅིག་པ་བཞིན་ཏེ། །རྣམ་པ་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཚུལ་བསྟན་ནི། །སྣ་ཚོགས་སྦུབས་སྙིང་བཞིན་ཤེས་བྱ། །དེ་ལྟར་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་གཟུགས་དང་

སྦྲང་རྩི་དང་སྙིང་པོའི་དཔེ་འདི་གསུམ་གྱིས་ནི། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུས་ལུས་པ་མེད་པའི་སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་ཁམས་ཁྱབ་པའི་དོན་གྱི་དབང་དུ་བྱས་ནས། སེམས་ཅན་འདི་དག་ནི་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཅན་ཡིན་ནོ་ཞེས་བསྟན་ནོ། །གང་ཞིག་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ལས་ཕྱི་རོལ་དུ་གྱུར་པའི་སེམས་ཅན་དེ་ནི་འགའ་ཡང་སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་ཁམས་ན་མེད་དེ། ནམ་མཁའི་ཁམས་ནི་གཟུགས་བཞིན་ནོ། །ཇི་སྐད་དུ། ཇི་ལྟར་ནམ་མཁའ་རྟག་ཏུ་ཀུན་སོང་འདོད། །དེ་བཞིན་དེ་ཡང་རྟག་ཏུ་ཀུན་སོང་འདོད། །ཇི་ལྟར་ནམ་མཁའ་གཟུགས་རྣམས་ཀུན་དུ་སོང་། །དེ་བཞིན་འདི་ཡང་སེམས་ཅན་ཚོགས་ཀུན་སོང་། །ཞེས་གསུངས་སོ།

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931) ^[3]

(The Cosmical Body) is of unworldly nature,

And in this world there is absolutely nothing

With which it can be compared.

Therefore it can be shown only in its similarity

With the (corporeal form of) the Buddha himself.

Takasaki (1966) ^[4]

Being supermundane, nothing can be given

As an example for the Essence, in this world;

Therefore, it is shown in its similarity

To the [apparitional form of the] Buddha himself.

Fuchs (2000) ^[5]

[The dharmakaya] being beyond the worldly,

no example for it can be found in the world.

Therefore the element and the Tathagata

are explained as being [slightly] similar.

Textual sources

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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.
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.

[1] Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input

[2] 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.

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

[4] 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.

[5] 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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+:Being supermundane, nothing can be given
+:As an example for the Essence, in this world;
+:Therefore, it is shown in its similarity
+:To the [apparitional form of the] Buddha himself.
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+:[The dharmakaya] being beyond the worldly,
+:no example for it can be found in the world.
+:Therefore the element and the Tathagata
+:are explained as being [slightly] similar.
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