Verse I.110

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|VariationTransSource=[[When the Clouds Part]], [[Brunnhölzl, K.|Brunnhölzl]], 396 <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]], 396 <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=::'''[In the fourth example,] the afflictions are like an unclean place full of excrement, while the tathāgata element resembles gold.
::'''Suppose a traveling person’s [piece of] gold'''
::'''Were to fall into a filthy place full of excrement'''
::'''And yet, being of an indestructible nature, would remain there'''
::'''Just as it is for many hundreds of years.'''I.108
::'''A deity with the pure divine eye'''
::'''Would see it there and tell a person:'''
::'''[There is] gold here, this<ref>With Schmithausen, I follow MA ''suvarṇam asminn idam agraratnam'' (supported by DP '' ’di na yod pa’i gser / rin chen mchog ’di'') against ''suvarṇam asmin navam agraratnam'' in J and MB.</ref> highest precious substance.'''
::'''You should purify it, and make use of this precious substance."''' I.109
{D107b} {J63}
::'''Similarly, the sage beholds the qualities of sentient beings''',
::'''Sunken into the afflictions that are like excrement,'''
::'''And thus showers down the rain of the dharma onto beings'''
::'''In order to purify them of the afflictions’ dirt.''' I.110
::'''Just as a deity seeing a [piece of] gold fallen into a filthy place full of excrement'''
::'''Would show its supreme beauty to people in order to purify it from stains,'''
::'''So the victor, beholding the jewel of a perfect buddha fallen into the great excrement of the afflictions'''
::'''In sentient beings, teaches the dharma to these beings for the sake of purifying that [buddha]. I.111'''
|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>
:In a like way the Lord perceives the true virtues of the living beings
:In a like way the Lord perceives the true virtues of the living beings

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.110

Verse I.110 Variations

दृष्ट्वा मुनिः सत्त्वगुणं तथैव
क्लेशेष्वमेक्ष्यप्रतिमेषु मग्नम्
तत्क्लेशपङ्कव्यवदानहेतो-
र्धर्माम्बुवर्षं व्यसृजत् प्रजासु
dṛṣṭvā muniḥ sattvaguṇaṃ tathaiva
kleśeṣvamekṣyapratimeṣu magnam

tatkleśapaṅkavyavadānaheto-
rdharmāmbuvarṣaṃ vyasṛjat prajāsu

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།དེ་བཞིན་ཐུབ་པས་མི་གཙང་དང་འདྲ་བའི།
།ཉོན་མོངས་སུ་བྱིང་སེམས་ཅན་ཡོན་ཏན་ནི།
།གཟིགས་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་འདམ་དེ་དག་བྱའི་ཕྱིར།
།སྐྱེ་དགུ་རྣམས་ལ་དམ་ཆོས་ཆུ་ཆར་འབེབས།
Dege, PHI, 118
Similarly, the sage beholds the qualities of sentient beings,
Sunken into the afflictions that are like excrement,
And thus showers down the rain of the dharma onto beings
In order to purify them of the afflictions’ dirt.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 396 [2]
De même, voyant la qualité des êtres enfouie

Dans les immondices des affections, Le sage fait sur tous les êtres tomber les pluies Du vrai Dharma pour les laver de la boue des affections.

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

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།ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ནི་མི་གཙང་བའི་ལྗན་ལྗིན་གྱི་གནས་དང་འདྲ་ལ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་ཁམས་ནི་གསེར་བཞིན་ཏེ། ཇི་ལྟར་རབ་ཏུ་རྒྱུ་ཚེ་མི་ཡི་གསེར། །ལྗན་ལྗིན་{br}རུལ་པའི་གནས་སུ་ལྷུང་གྱུར་ལ། །མི་འཇིག་ཆོས་ཅན་དེ་ནི་དེར་དེ་བཞིན། །ལོ་བརྒྱ་མང་པོ་དག་ཏུ་གནས་པ་དེ། །ལྷ་མིག་རྣམ་པར་དག་ལྡན་ལྷ་ཡིས་དེར། །མཐོང་ནས་མི་ལ་འདི་ན་ཡོད་པའི་གསེར། །རིན་ཆེན་མཆོག་འདི་སྦྱངས་ཏེ་རིན་ཆེན་གྱིས། །བསྒྲུབ་པར་བྱ་བ་གྱིས་ཞེས་སྨྲ་བ་
ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་ཐུབ་པས་མི་གཙང་དང་འདྲ་བའི། །ཉོན་མོངས་སུ་བྱིང་སེམས་ཅན་ཡོན་ཏན་ནི། །གཟིགས་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་འདམ་དེ་དག་བྱའི་ཕྱིར། །སྐྱེ་དགུ་རྣམས་ལ་དམ་ཆོས་ཆུ་ཆར་འབེབས། །ཇི་ལྟར་ལྗན་ལྗིན་རུལ་པའི་ནང་དུ་ལྷུང་བའི་གསེར་ནི་ལྷ་ཡིས་མཐོང་གྱུར་ནས། །ཀུན་{br}ཏུ་དགའ་བར་བྱ་ཕྱིར་མཆོག་ཏུ་མཛེས་པ་མི་ལ་ནན་གྱིས་སྟོན་པ་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་རྒྱལ་བས་ཉོན་མོངས་མི་གཙང་ཆེན་པོར་ལྷུང་གྱུར་རྫོགས་སངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། །སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས་ལ་གཟིགས་ནས་དེ་དག་བྱ་ཕྱིར་ལུས་ཅན་རྣམས་ལ་ཆོས་སྟོན་ཏོ།

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931) [4]
In a like way the Lord perceives the true virtues of the living beings
Sunk amidst the passions that are like impurities，
And, in order to wash off this dirt of Desire,
Lets the rain of the Highest Doctrine descend on all that lives.
Takasaki (1966) [5]
Similarly, the Buddha perceives the quality of living beings
Drowned in the Defilements which are like impurities,
And pours the rain of the Doctrine over the living beings
In order to wash off that dirt of defilements.
Fuchs (2000) [6]
Likewise the Muni sees the quality [of] beings,
which is sunken in the filth-like mental poisons,
and pours his rain of sacred Dharma upon them
to purify the muddiness of their afflictions.

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  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. With Schmithausen, I follow MA suvarṇam asminn idam agraratnam (supported by DP ’di na yod pa’i gser / rin chen mchog ’di) against suvarṇam asmin navam agraratnam in J and MB.
  4. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  5. 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.
  6. 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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