Verse I.6 Variations
शान्तधर्मशरीरत्वादनाभोगमिति स्मृतम्
śāntadharmaśarīratvādanābhogamiti smṛtam
།རང་བཞིན་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་འདུས་མ་བྱས།
།ཞི་བ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཅན་ཕྱིར།
།ལྷུན་གྱིས་གྲུབ་ཅེས་བྱ་བར་བརྗོད།
Is to be without beginning, middle, and end.
It is declared to be effortless
Because it possesses the peaceful dharma body.
Ni milieu, ni fin, elle est incomposée. Douée de la paix du corps absolu, On la dit spontanée.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Having by nature no beginning,
- Middle, nor end, (the Buddha) is immutable.
- Being, in his Cosmical Essence, quiescent,
- He is spoken of as acting without effort.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- As having neither beginning, middle nor end by nature,
- It is immutable;
- Being the body of quiet character,
- It is free from any effort, — thus remembered by tradition
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Its nature is without beginning, middle, or end;
- hence [the state of a buddha] is uncreated.
- Since it possesses the peaceful dharmakaya,
- it is described as being "spontaneously present."
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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.
- 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.