Verse I.142 Variations
वज्रोपमसमाधानज्ञानवध्या महात्मनाम्
vajropamasamādhānajñānavadhyā mahātmanām
།ས་འདམ་གོས་བཞིན་ཤེས་བྱ་སྟེ།
།བདག་ཉིད་ཆེན་པོ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ལྟའི།
།ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱིས་གཞོམ་བྱ་ཡིན།
Should be known to be like a clay mold.
They are to be overcome by the wisdom
Of the vajra-like samādhi of great beings.
Sont comparables à des traces d’argile [sur une statue]. Le recueillement Adamantin des grands êtres En aura raison.
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Obermiller (1931) [7]
- The stains connected with the last 3 Stages
- Are known as being like the covering of muddy ground.
- They are to be suppressed by the concentrated trance
- Called “ the diamond-cutter ” which is of most sublime nature.
Takasaki (1966) [8]
- The stains connected with the [last] 3 Stages
- Are known as being like the earthen mould,
- And are to be destroyed by the Wisdom of the Buddhas
- [Obtained through] Meditation called 'the Diamondlike'.
Fuchs (2000) [9]
- The defilements connected with the three [pure] levels
- should be known as being similar to the layer of clay.
- They must be overcome by the vajra-like samadhi
- of [those] who are the embodiment of greatness.
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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.
- DP "Just as an unknown treasure is not obtained due to its gems being obscured, so the self-arisen in people [skye la is difficult to construct] is obscured by the ground of the latent tendencies of ignorance" (ji ltar nor ni bsgribs pas na / mi shes gter mi thob pa ltar / de bzhin skye la rang byung nyid / ma rig bag chags sa yis bsgribs /).
- Against Takasaki and DP (ram par smin pa bzhin) understanding °vat in vipākavat as "like,"I follow de Jong’s suggestion of taking vipākavat as a possessive adjective relating to jñānam Thus, the nonconceptual wisdom mentioned here seems to refer to the wisdom on the last three bhūmis that emerges from the stains of the preceding seven bhūmis, just as an embryo emerges from the womb.
- DP omit "wisdom."
- DP "basic element" (khams).
- 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.