Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.79
Verse I.79 Variations
अनन्यथात्माक्षयधर्मयोगतो
जगच्छरण्योऽनपरान्तकोटितः
सदाद्वयोऽसावविकल्पकत्वतो
ऽविनाशधर्माप्यकृतस्वभावतः
जगच्छरण्योऽनपरान्तकोटितः
सदाद्वयोऽसावविकल्पकत्वतो
ऽविनाशधर्माप्यकृतस्वभावतः
ananyathātmākṣayadharmayogato
jagaccharaṇyo'naparāntakoṭitaḥ
sadādvayo'sāvavikalpakatvato
'vināśadharmāpyakṛtasvabhāvataḥ
jagaccharaṇyo'naparāntakoṭitaḥ
sadādvayo'sāvavikalpakatvato
'vināśadharmāpyakṛtasvabhāvataḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།གཞན་འགྱུར་མིན་བདག་མི་ཟད་ཆོས་ལྡན་ཕྱིར།
།འགྲོ་སྐྱབས་ཕྱི་མའི་མཐའ་མེད་མུར་ཐུག་ཕྱིར།
།དེ་ནི་རྟག་ཏུ་གཉིས་མེད་མི་རྟོག་ཕྱིར།
།འཇིག་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱང་མ་བྱས་རང་བཞིན་ཕྱིར།
།འགྲོ་སྐྱབས་ཕྱི་མའི་མཐའ་མེད་མུར་ཐུག་ཕྱིར།
།དེ་ནི་རྟག་ཏུ་གཉིས་མེད་མི་རྟོག་ཕྱིར།
།འཇིག་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱང་མ་བྱས་རང་བཞིན་ཕྱིར།
[The tathāgata element] is of unchanging character because it is has the nature of being inexhaustible.
It is the refuge of the world because it has no end in time.
It is always nondual because it is nonconceptual.
It also has the nature of indestructibility because its nature is to be uncreated.
It is the refuge of the world because it has no end in time.
It is always nondual because it is nonconceptual.
It also has the nature of indestructibility because its nature is to be uncreated.
[Le corps absolu] est immuable puisqu’il possède
d’inépuisables qualités ; C’est un refuge pour les êtres puisqu’il persiste sans limite future ; Il est toujours non duel puisqu’il ne pense pas ; Et c’est aussi une réalité indestructible puisque sa nature est incréée.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- (The Cosmical Body of the Buddha is eternal),
- Being the unalterable Ultimate Essence of Existence possessed of imperishable properties,
- The refuge of living beings, infinite and extending beyond all limits,
- Always unique and free from (dialectical) thought-construction,
- Of indestructible nature, and not produced (by causes).
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- This [Essence of the Buddha] is of unalterable nature
- Because it is endowed with inexhaustible properties,
- It is the refuge of the world
- Because it has no limit in the future;
- It is always non-dual
- Because it is indiscriminative,
- Also it is of undestructible nature
- Because its own nature is not created [by conditions].
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- [The dharmakaya] does not change into something else, since it has inexhaustible properties.
- It is the refuge of beings, since [it protects them] without any limit of time, until the final end.
- It is always free from duality, since it is foreign to all ideation.
- It is also an indestructible state, since its nature is uncreated.
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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.
།དེ་ལ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་དག་{br}པའི་གནས་སྐབས་ན་རྣམ་པར་འགྱུར་བ་མེད་པ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། གཞན་འགྱུར་མིན་བདག་མི་ཟད་ཆོས་ལྡན་ཕྱིར། །འགྲོ་སྐྱབས་ཕྱི་མའི་མཐའ་མེད་མུར་ཐུག་ཕྱིར། །དེ་ནི་རྟག་ཏུ་གཉིས་མེད་མི་རྟོག་ཕྱིར། །འཇིག་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱང་མ་བྱས་རང་བཞིན་ཕྱིར།