Verse I.15

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.15

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यथावत्तज्जगच्छन्तधर्मतावगमात् स च
प्रकृतेः परिशुद्धत्वात् क्लेशस्यादिक्षयेक्षणात्

yathāvattajjagacchantadharmatāvagamāt sa ca
prakṛteḥ pariśuddhatvāt kleśasyādikṣayekṣaṇāt

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[1]

།འགྲོ་བ་ཞི་བའི་ཆོས་ཉིད་དུ།
།རྟོགས་ཕྱིར་ཇི་ལྟ་ཉིད་དེ་ཡང་།
།རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་ནི་ཡོངས་དག་ཕྱིར།
།ཉོན་མོངས་གདོད་ནས་ཟད་ཕྱིར་རོ།

Dege, PHI, 110

[The wisdom of] suchness by virtue of
Realizing the world’s true nature of peace
Is due to the natural complete purity [of the mind]
And due to seeing the primordial termination of the afflictions.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 345. ^[2]

Avec la réalisation de la vraie nature

Paisible des êtres, ils [connaissent] l’essence des choses. La nature [de l’esprit] étant totalement pure, Les affections y sont épuisées dès l’origine.

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

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Obermiller (1931) ^[3]

As they know the quiescent nature of all that exists

They have the intuition of the Absolute Truth,

This owing to (their knowledge) of the pure nature (of the Spirit),

And of the essential nullity of the defiling forces.

Takasaki (1966) ^[4]

Their manner [of perception] is ' as it is ',

Because they have understood the quiescent nature of the world,

And this [understanding] is caused by

The purity [of the innate mind] and

Their perception of the defilement as being destroyed from the outset.

Fuchs (2000) ^[5]

Realizing beings in their state of peace

[the noble ones] know correctly,

for [the mind] is by nature utterly pure

and the poisons were always exhausted.

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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.

[1] Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input

[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.

[3] Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.

[4] 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.

[5] 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.

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