Verse I.60 Variations
अयोनिशोमनस्कारप्रभवे क्लेशकर्मणी
ayoniśomanaskāraprabhave kleśakarmaṇī
།སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ལ་གནས་ཏེ།
།ཚུལ་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་ཡིད་བྱེད་ཀྱིས།
།ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱེ།
Rests on the nature of the mind,
And improper mental engagement
Produces karma and afflictions.
Reposent sur la nature de l’esprit ; Des activités erronées du mental Procèdent les actes et les affections.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- The wrong appreciation (of existence)
- Is supported by the spiritual essence.
- This naive, incorrect evaluation
- Calls forth the Biotic Force and the passions.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Abiding in the Innate Mind,
- There occurs the irrational action of mind.
- By the Irrational Action of mind,
- The Active Force and Defilements are produced.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- The improper conceptual activity
- rests upon the nature of the mind.
- Improper conceptual activity brings about
- all the classes of karma and mental poisons.
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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.
- 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.