Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.31
Verse I.31 Variations
प्रभावानन्यथाभावस्निग्धभावस्वभावतः
चिन्तामणिनभोवारिगुणसाधर्म्यमेषु हि
चिन्तामणिनभोवारिगुणसाधर्म्यमेषु हि
prabhāvānanyathābhāvasnigdhabhāvasvabhāvataḥ
cintāmaṇinabhovāriguṇasādharmyameṣu hi
cintāmaṇinabhovāriguṇasādharmyameṣu hi
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།མཐུ་དང་གཞན་དུ་མི་འགྱུར་དང་།
།བརླན་པའི་ངོ་བོའི་རང་བཞིན་ཕྱིར།
།འདི་དག་ནོར་བུ་རིན་ཆེན་མཁའ།
།ཆུ་ཡི་ཡོན་ཏན་ཆོས་མཐུན་ཉིད།
།བརླན་པའི་ངོ་བོའི་རང་བཞིན་ཕྱིར།
།འདི་དག་ནོར་བུ་རིན་ཆེན་མཁའ།
།ཆུ་ཡི་ཡོན་ཏན་ཆོས་མཐུན་ཉིད།
By virtue of its nature of power,
Being unchanging, and being moist,
It resembles the qualities
Of a wish-fulfilling jewel, space, and water.
Being unchanging, and being moist,
It resembles the qualities
Of a wish-fulfilling jewel, space, and water.
Comme elle est puissante, immuable,
Et de nature humide, Elle est analogue Au précieux joyau, à l’espace et à l’eau.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Being essentially powerful,
- Unalterable and moist by nature,
- It has a resemblance, in its distinctive features,
- With the wish-fulfilling gem, with space, and water.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Because of its own nature of power,
- Identity, and being moist; in these [three points]
- [The Essence of the Tathāgata has] a resemblance
- To the quality of the wish-fulfilling jewel, the sky and water.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- [Wielding] power, not changing into something else,
- and being a nature that has a moistening [quality]:
- these [three] have properties corresponding
- to those of a precious gem, the sky, and water.
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.
- 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.
