Verse I.111 Variations
दृष्ट्वा दृश्यतमं नृणामुपदिशेत् संशोधनार्थं मलात्
तद्वत् क्लेशमहाशुचिप्रपतितं संबुद्धरत्नं जिनः
सत्त्वेषु व्यवलोक्य धर्ममदिश[त्त]च्छुद्धये देहिनाम्
dṛṣṭvā dṛśyatamaṃ nṛṇāmupadiśet saṃśodhanārthaṃ malāt
tadvat kleśamahāśuciprapatitaṃ saṃbuddharatnaṃ jinaḥ
sattveṣu vyavalokya dharmamadiśa[tta]cchuddhaye dehinām
ཀུན་ཏུ་དག་པར་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། །
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].
諸天眼了見 眾生不能知
諸天既見已 語眾悉令知
教除垢方便 得淨真金用
佛性金亦爾 墮煩惱穢中
如來觀察已 為說清淨法
en montre avec insistance La sublime beauté à un être humain pour qu’il le nettoie parfaitement. De même, voyant en chaque être le joyau de la bouddhéité parfaite tombé dans les grandes immondices des affections, Le Vainqueur enseigne le Dharma aux êtres pour qu’ils purifient cette [quintessence].
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Obermiller (1931) [4]
- Just as a god, seeing gold falling into a pit of impurities,
- Would zealously show it to men in its beautiful nature in order to gladden them,
- In a like way the Lord sees in the living beings
- The jewel of the Supreme Buddha fallen amidst the great impurities of the passions,
- And shows the Doctrine in order to purify it.
Takasaki (1966) [5]
- Just as a god, perceiving a piece of gold, the most beautiful one,
- Fallen into a dirty place filled with impurities,
- Would show it to the people in order to purify it from dirt;
- In the same way, the Buddha, perceiving the treasure of the Buddha in the living beings
- Which is fallen into a big pit of impurities of defilements,
- Teaches the Doctrine to the living beings in order to purify the treasure.
Fuchs (2000) [6]
- Once the god has seen the gold that has fallen into the place full of rotting refuse,
- insistently he directs the man's attention to this supremely beautiful
- thing so he may completely cleanse it.
- Seeing within all beings the precious perfect buddha that has fallen
- into the great filth of the mental poisons,
- the Victorious One does likewise and teaches the Dharma to persuade them to purify it.
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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.
- 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.
- 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.