Verse V.15 Variations
श्रेष्ठा प्रज्ञा श्रुतं चास्य मूलं तस्माच्छ्रुतं परम्
śreṣṭhā prajñā śrutaṃ cāsya mūlaṃ tasmācchrutaṃ param
སྤོང་རྒྱུ་གཞན་མེད་དེ་ཡི་ཕྱིར། །
ཤེས་རབ་མཆོག་ཡིན་དེ་བཞི་ནི། །
།ཐོས་པས་དེ་ཕྱིར་ཐོས་པ་མཆོག
The causes for relinquishing these [obscurations].
Therefore, prajñā is the highest one, and its root
Is study, so study is supreme [too].
Éliminer les deux voiles. C’est pourquoi La connaissance est suprême. Sa racine étant l’étude, l’étude est suprême aussi.
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Obermiller (1931) [10]
- But, without Highest Wisdom, all the other virtues
- Are not possessed of the factors for removing (both) the Obscurations.
- Therefore Highest Wisdom is superior (to all),
- And, as the source of it is study (of the Doctrine),
- It is this study which is most important.
Takasaki (1966) [11]
- But, without the Highest Intellect,
- The other 5 cannot be the cause of their removal;
- Therefore, the Highest Intellect is the supreme one of all,
- And, as the source of it is the study [of this Doctrine],
- It is this study that is the most important.
Fuchs (2000) [12]
- Since apart from discriminative wisdom
- there is no other cause to remove these [veils],
- this discriminative wisdom is supreme.
- Its ground being study, such study is supreme.
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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.
- I follow MA/MB °śakyatva° against J °śaktatva°.
- Following DP and C, tatcitta° is to be emended to tannitya°.
- As V.14 explains, these refer to the three spheres of agent, object, and action.
- DP "conceptions" (ram tog).
- DP "miserliness" (ser sna).
- MA/MB cāsyā instead of J cāsya.
- 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.