Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.22
Verse I.22 Variations
रत्नानि दुर्लभोत्पादान निर्मलत्वात् प्रभावतः
लोकालंकारभूतत्वादग्रत्वान् निर्विकारतः
लोकालंकारभूतत्वादग्रत्वान् निर्विकारतः
ratnāni durlabhotpādāna nirmalatvāt prabhāvataḥ
lokālaṃkārabhūtatvādagratvān nirvikārataḥ
lokālaṃkārabhūtatvādagratvān nirvikārataḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།འབྱུང་བ་དཀོན་ཕྱིར་དྲི་མེད་ཕྱིར།
།མཐུ་ལྡན་ཕྱིར་དང་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི།
།རྒྱན་གྱུར་ཕྱིར་དང་མཆོག་ཉིད་ཕྱིར།
།འགྱུར་བ་མེད་ཕྱིར་དཀོན་མཆོག་ཉིད།
།མཐུ་ལྡན་ཕྱིར་དང་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི།
།རྒྱན་གྱུར་ཕྱིར་དང་མཆོག་ཉིད་ཕྱིར།
།འགྱུར་བ་མེད་ཕྱིར་དཀོན་མཆོག་ཉིད།
They are jewels because their appearance is difficult to encounter,
Because they are stainless, because they possess power,
Because they are the ornaments of the world,
Because they are supreme, and because they are changeless.
Because they are stainless, because they possess power,
Because they are the ornaments of the world,
Because they are supreme, and because they are changeless.
Les « Joyaux » sont ainsi nommés
Pour leur rareté, leur pureté et leurs pouvoirs, Parce qu’ils sont les ornements du monde Et parce qu’ils sont suprêmes et immuables.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
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Holmes (1985) [3]
- 'Rare and supreme' because of being
- a most rare occurrence, stainless,
- powerful, the ornament of the world,
- the best possible thing and changeless.
Fuchs (2000) [4]
- Their occurence is rare, they are free from defilement,
- they possess power, they are the adornment of the world,
- they are sublime, and they are unchanging.
- Thus [they are named] "rare and sublime."
Textual sources
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Academic notes
- 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.
- Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.
- 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.
