Verse I.73 Variations
शान्तध्यानसमापत्तिप्रतिपन्नश्च सर्वदा
śāntadhyānasamāpattipratipannaśca sarvadā
།མེ་བཞིན་དུ་ནི་འབར་བ་དང་།
།ཞི་བའི་བསམ་གཏན་སྙོམས་འཇུག་ལ།
།རྟག་ཏུ་སྙོམས་པར་ཞུགས་པ་ཡིན།
Is perpetually blazing like fire,
While always being immersed in
The absorption of the dhyāna of peace.
Brûle comme un feu qui brûle constamment, Mais ils restent constamment absorbés Dans la paix de la concentration.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- His Wisdom pursuing the welfare (of others),
- Constantly blazes up like a flame;
- At the same time he is always merged
- In the quiescent trance and mystic absorption.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- His intelligence is always burning like fire
- For bringing about the welfare [to the world];
- At the same time, he is always practising
- Meditation and concentration on the Quiescence;
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Viewing the accomplishment of their task,
- their understanding always blazes like fire.
- And they always rest evenly balanced
- in meditative stability, which is peace.
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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.