Verse I.75 Variations
देशन्या रूपकायाभ्यां चर्ययेर्यापथेन वा
deśanyā rūpakāyābhyāṃ caryayeryāpathena vā
།སྤྱོད་དང་སྤྱོད་ལམ་གྱིས་ཀྱང་རུང་།
།གང་ཞིག་ཇི་ལྟར་གང་གིས་འདུལ།
།དེས་དེ་དེ་ལྟ་ཉིད་དུ་ཤེས།
They [guide] those [beings] in just that way
Through teaching, the rūpakāyas,
[Various forms of] conduct, and [daily] behaviors.
Comment et par quels moyens, Que ce soit avec des enseignements, des corps formels, Des actes altruistes ou certains comportements.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- By teaching, by (Various) apparitions,
- By (demonstrating such and such) acts and means,一
- Who, how, and by what means is to be converted,—
- All this (the Bodhisattva) perfectly knows.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- The Bodhisattva, knowing who is to be trained
- In what manner and by what means
- [Performs it] in the proper manner:
- By means of teaching, of two apparitional forms,
- By conduct [of ordinary life] or by religious observances.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- These [heirs of the Victorious One] know precisely
- how and by what [method] each should be trained—
- through whatever teachings, form kayas, conduct,
- and ways of behavior are individually appropriate.
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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.