Verse IV.16 Variations
प्रतिभासं तमालोक्य प्रणिधिं कुर्युरीदृशम्
pratibhāsaṃ tamālokya praṇidhiṃ kuryurīdṛśam
ས་ཡི་སྟེང་ན་གནས་པ་རྣམས། །
སྣང་བ་དེ་ནི་མཐོང་གྱུར་ཏེ། །
ངེད་ཀྱང་རིང་པོར་མི་ཐོགས་པར། །
Who dwell on the ground of the earth
Would take sight of this appearance
And make the following prayer:
Les hommes et les femmes Qui peuplent la terre Forment le souhait
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Obermiller (1931) [11]
- Suppose then, that multitudes of men and women,
- Abiding on that surface of the earth,
- Would come to see the vision,
- And utter the following entreaty:
Takasaki (1966) [12]
- Suppose then, the multitudes of men and women
- Abiding on this surface of the earth,
- Would perceive this vision
- And make the following prayer:
Fuchs (2000) [13]
- Once the assembly of men and women
- who inhabit the surface of the earth
- saw this appearance, each would say:
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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.
- D100, fols. 278b.6–280b.1.
- DP "yāna."
- I follow MB saddharmakāyam adhyātmaṃ (corresponding to DP nang gi dam pa’i chos sku) against J saddharmakāyaṃ madhyasthaṃ.
- With Schmithausen and against Takasaki, I take the compound °viṣamasthānāntaramala as consisting of viṣamasthāna, antara, and mall.
- VT (fol. 16r4) glosses śubhra as "clear, transparent" (svacchā). Śubhra can also mean "radiant," "splendid," "spotless," and "bright"; DP have mazes pa.
- I follow Schmithausen’s suggested reading of MB surapatibhavanavyūhendramarutām against J surapatibhavanaṃ māhendramarutām, with °vyūha being supported by D tshogs (P mistakenly has sna tshogs instead of gas tshogs). The maruts are the storm gods who are the retinue of Indra.
- I follow de Jong’s suggested reading cittāny udpādayanti (supported by D seems rab bskyed byed; P mistakenly has gshegs instead of seems) against J cittān vyutpādayanti and Chowdury’s "correction" citrāṇy utpādayanati (see de Jong 1968, 50). Obviously, this refers to all the kinds of mind-sets that represent or flow from bodhicitta.
- 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.