Verse I.138 Variations
स्वयंभूत्वं तथाविद्यावासभूम्यावृता जनाः
svayaṃbhūtvaṃ tathāvidyāvāsabhūmyāvṛtā janāḥ
།མི་ཤེས་གཏེར་མི་ཐོབ་པ་ལྟར།
།དེ་བཞིན་སྐྱེ་ལ་རང་བྱུང་ཉིད།
།མ་རིག་བག་ཆགས་ས་ཡིས་བསྒྲིབས།
Hidden in the earth due to not knowing [about it],
So those obscured by the ground of the latent tendencies
Of ignorance [do not obtain] the self-arisen.
Sont d’introuvables trésors ignorés, La [sagesse] spontanée des êtres est voilée Par la terre des imprégnations de l’ignorance.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- As riches, being hidden in the ground,
- Are not known of and cannot be obtained,
- Similarly, in the living beings, the self-sprung (essence)
- Is obscured by the elementary force of illusion.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Just as the people, because of their ignorance,
- Cannot obtain the treasure hidden under the ground,
- In a similar way, they cannot obtain the Buddhahood
- Hindered by the Dwelling Place of Ignorance.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- When wealth is hidden, one is ignorant of it
- and therefore does not obtain the treasure.
- Likewise self-sprung [wisdom] is veiled in arhats
- by the ground of remaining imprints of ignorance.
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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.