Verse I.1

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बुद्धश्च धर्मश्च गणश्च धातु-

र्बोधिर्गुणाः कर्म च बौद्धमन्त्यम्
कृत्स्नस्य शास्त्रस्य शरीरमेतत्
समासतो वज्रपदानि सप्त

buddhaśca dharmaśca gaṇaśca dhātu-

rbodhirguṇāḥ karma ca bauddhamantyam
kṛtsnasya śāstrasya śarīrametat
samāsato vajrapadāni sapta

E. H. Johnston ^[1]

།སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཁམས་དང་བྱང་ཆུབ་དང་།

།ཡོན་ཏན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཕྲིན་ལས་ཐ་མ་སྟེ།
།བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀུན་གྱི་ལུས་ནི་མདོར་བསྡུ་ན།
།རྡོ་རྗེ་ཡི་ནི་གནས་བདུན་འདི་དག་གོ།

Dege, PHI, 111

Buddha, dharma, assembly, basic element,

Awakening, qualities, and finally buddha activity–
The body of the entire treatise
Is summarized in these seven vajra points. I.1

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 3༣༡ ^[2]

Le Bouddha, le Dharma, la Communauté, l’Élément, l’Éveil,

Les qualités et, enfin, les activités éveillées Le corps du traité tout entier se ramène À ces sept points de vajra.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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buddhaśca dharmaśca gaṇaśca dhātu-

rbodhirguṇāḥ karma ca bauddhamantyam/

kṛtsnasya śāstrasya śarīrametat

samāsato vajrapadāni sapta//1//

vajropamasyādhigamārthasya padaṃ sthānamiti vajrapadam/ tatra śruticintāmayajñānaduṣprativedhādanabhilāpyasvabhāvaḥ pratyātmavedanīyo'rtho vajravadveditavyaḥ/ yānyakṣarāṇi tamarthamabhivadanti tatprāptyanukūlamārgābhidyotanatastāni tatpratiṣṭhābhūtatvāt padamityucyante/ iti duṣprativedhārthena pratiṣṭhārthena ca vajrapadatvamarthavyañjanayoranugantavyam/ tatra katamo'rthaḥ katamadvyañjanam/ artha ucyate saptaprakāro'dhigamārtho yaduta buddhārtho dharmārthaḥ saṃghārtho dhātvartho bodhyartho guṇārthaḥ karmārthaśca/ ayamucyate'rthaḥ/ yairakṣaraireṣa saptaprakāro'dhigamārthaḥ sūcyate prakāśyata idamucyate vyañjanam/ sa caiṣa vajrapadanirdeśo vistareṇa yathāsūtramanugantavyaḥ/

anidarśano hyānanda tathāgataḥ/ sa na śakyaścakṣuṣā draṣṭum/ anabhilāpyo hyānanda dharmaḥ/ sa na śakyaḥ karṇena śrotum/ asaṃskṛto hyānanda saṃghaḥ/ sa na śakyaḥ kāyena vā cittena vā paryupā situm/ itīmāni trīṇi vajrapadāni dṛḍhādhyāśayaparivartānusāreṇānugantavyāni/

tathāgataviṣayo hi śāriputrāyamarthastathāgatagocaraḥ/ sarvaśrāvakapratyekabuddhairapi tāvacchāriputrāyamartho na śakyaḥ samyak svaprajñayā xxx draṣṭuṃ vā pratyavekṣituṃ vā/ prāgeva bālapṛthagjanairanyatra tathāgataśraddhāgamanataḥ/ śraddhāgamanīyo hi śāriputra paramārthaḥ/ paramārtha iti śāriputra sattvadhātoretadadhivacanam/ sattvadhāturiti śāriputra tathāgatagarbhasyaitadadhivacanam/ tathāgatagarbha iti śāriputra dharmakāyasyaitadadhivacanam/ itīdaṃ caturthaṃ vajrapadamanūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśaparivartānusāreṇānugatavyam/

anuttarā samyaksaṃbodhiriti bhagavan nirvāṇadhātoretadadhivacanam/ nirvāṇadhāturiti bhagavan tathāgatadharmakāyasyaitadadhivacanam/ itīdaṃ pañcamaṃ vajrapadamāryaśrīmālāsūtrānusāreṇānugantavyam/

yo'yaṃ śāriputra tathāgatanirdiṣṭo dharmakāyaḥ so'yamavinirbhāgadharmā/ avinirmuktajñānaguṇo yaduta gaṅgānadīvālikāvyatikrāntaistathāgatadharmaiḥ/ itīdaṃ ṣaṣṭhaṃ vajrapadmanūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśānusāreṇānugantavyam/

na mañjuśrīstathāgataḥ kalpayati na vikalpayati/ athavāsyānābhogenākalpayato'vikalpayata iyamevaṃrūpā kriyā pravartate/ itīdaṃ saptamaṃ vajrapada tathāgataguṇajñānācintyaviṣayāvatāranirdeśānusāreṇānugantavyam/ itīmāni samāsataḥ sapta vajrapadāni sakalasyāsya śāstrasyoddeśamukhasaṃgrāhārthena śarīramiti veditavyam/

佛法及眾僧性道功德業略說此論體七種金剛句

此偈明何義言金剛者猶如金剛難可沮壞所證之義亦復如是故言金剛所言句者以此論句能與證義為根本故此明何義內身證法無言之體以聞思智難可證得猶如金

剛名字章句以能詮彼理中證智隨順正道能作根本故名為句此復何義有二義故何謂二義一難證義二者因義是名為義金剛字句應如是知又何謂為義何謂為字義者則有七種證義何謂七義一者佛義二者法義三者僧義四者眾生義五者菩提義六者功德義七者業義是名為義是故經言又第一義諦者所謂心緣尚不能知何況名字章句故所言字者隨以何等名字章句言語風聲能表能說能明能示此七種義是名為字是故經言又世諦者謂世間中所用之事名字章句言語所說故又此七種金剛句義如諸經中廣說應知應云何知依佛義故如來經中告阿難言阿難所言如來者非可見法是故眼識不能得見故依法義故如來經中告阿難言阿難所言法者非可說事以是故非耳識所聞故依僧義故如來經中告阿難言阿難所言僧者名為無為是故不可身心供養禮拜讚歎故依眾生義故如來經中告舍利弗言舍利弗言眾生者乃是諸佛如來境界一切聲聞辟支佛等以正智慧不能觀察眾生之義何況能證毛道凡夫於此義中唯信如來是故舍利弗隨如來信此眾生義舍利弗言眾生者即是第一義諦舍利弗言第一義諦者即是眾生界舍利弗言眾生界者即是如來藏舍利弗言如來藏者即是法身故依菩提義故經中說言世尊言阿耨多羅三藐三菩提者名涅槃界世尊言涅槃界者即是

法身故依功德義故如來經中告舍利弗言舍利弗如來所說法身義者過於恒沙不離不脫不思議佛法如來智慧功德舍利弗如世間燈明色及觸不離不脫又如摩尼寶珠明色形相不離不脫舍利弗法身之義亦復如是過於恒沙不離不脫不思議佛法如來智慧功德故依業義故如來經中告文殊師利言文殊師利如來不分別不分別無分別而自然無分別如所作業自然行故如是等名略說七種金剛字句總攝此論體相應知

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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.

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[2] 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.

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