Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.41
Verse I.41 Variations
भवनिर्वाणतद्दुःखसुखदोषगुणेक्षणम्
गोत्रे सति भवत्येतदगोत्राणां न विद्यते
गोत्रे सति भवत्येतदगोत्राणां न विद्यते
bhavanirvāṇatadduḥkhasukhadoṣaguṇekṣaṇam
gotre sati bhavatyetadagotrāṇāṃ na vidyate
gotre sati bhavatyetadagotrāṇāṃ na vidyate
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།སྲིད་དང་མྱ་ངན་འདས་ལ་དེའི།
།སྡུག་བདེའི་སྐྱོན་ཡོན་མཐོང་བ་འདི།
།རིགས་ཡོད་ལས་ཡིན་གང་ཕྱིར་དེ།
།རིགས་མེད་དག་ལ་མེད་ཕྱིར་རོ།
།སྡུག་བདེའི་སྐྱོན་ཡོན་མཐོང་བ་འདི།
།རིགས་ཡོད་ལས་ཡིན་གང་ཕྱིར་དེ།
།རིགས་མེད་དག་ལ་མེད་ཕྱིར་རོ།
This seeing of the flaws of suffering and the qualities of happiness
In [saṃsāric] existence and nirvāṇa
Occurs [only] when the disposition exists
Because it does not occur in those without the disposition.
In [saṃsāric] existence and nirvāṇa
Occurs [only] when the disposition exists
Because it does not occur in those without the disposition.
Le fait de voir que le saṃsāra a pour défaut la souffrance
Et que le nirvāṇa a pour qualité le bonheur Est dû à la présence de la filiation spirituelle – Ce n’est pas le cas chez ceux qui en sont dépourvus.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- This contemplation
- Of the sufferings of Phenomenal Life and the bliss of Nirvāṇa,
- Of the defects (of the former) and the advantages (of the latter)
- Is (conditioned) by the existence of the Germ. Therefore,
- With those in whom there is no Germ, this contemplation
- does not exist.[4]
Takasaki (1966) [5]
- The perception of Phenomenal Life and Nirvāṇa, —
- The former is full of Suffering, hence it is the fault,
- The latter is of bliss, therefore it is the merit;
- It exists only in case the Germ of the Buddha exists,
- And does not exist with people of no Germ.
Holmes (1985) [6]
- Perception of suffering, saṃsāra 's fault,
- and happiness, nirvāṇa's quality,
- is due to the potential's presence.
- Why should this be?
- Without such potential
- It will not be present.
Holmes (1999) [7]
- Awareness of saṃsāra’s shortcoming, suffering,
- and nirvāṇa’s quality, happiness,
- are due to the existence of this potential.
- Why is this so? Without such potential
- they would not be present.
Fuchs (2000) [8]
- That with regard to existence and nirvana their respective fault and
- quality are seen,
- that suffering is seen as the fault of existence and happiness as the
- quality of nirvana,
- stems from the presence of the disposition to buddhahood. "Why so?"
- In those who are devoid of disposition, such seeing does not occur.
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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.
- Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
- This is verse 40 in Obermiller's translation
- 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.
- Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.
- Holmes, Ken & Katia. Maitreya on Buddha Nature. Scotland: Altea Publishing, 1999.
- 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.
