Verse I.88 Variations
यो यदङ्गं प्रजानीयात्तदन्यो नावधारयेत्
yo yadaṅgaṃ prajānīyāttadanyo nāvadhārayet
།གཞན་དང་གཞན་ལ་མཁས་པ་དག
།གང་ཞིག་ཡན་ལག་གང་ཤེས་པ།
།དེ་གཞན་ངེས་ཟིན་མེད་པར་འགྱུར།
[Each] an expert in a different [body part],
So that whatever part is known by one of them
Would not be understood by any other one.
Qui ne savent représenter de parties du corps que celles qu’ils connaissent. Le maître du royaume leur offre une toile « Travaillez ensemble, dit-il, et faites mon portrait ! » À cet ordre, ils se mettent à l’ouvrage mais l’un d’eux Doit soudain se rendre à l’étranger. Celui-là disparu, il sera impossible d’achever le tableau dans toutes ses parties. Fin de la parabole.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Suppose there were some painters,
- Skilful (in painting) various (parts of the body),
- And each of them, knowing his own special member,
- Would not be able (to paint) the rest.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Suppose there were some painters,
- [Each of them] expert in a different sphere,
- So that whatever skill possessed by one of them,
- The others could not understand.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Suppose some painters mastered their craft,
- each with respect to a different [part of the body],
- so that whichever part one would know how to do,
- he would not succeed with any other part.
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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.