Verse I.149 Variations
अनादिप्रकृतिस्थं च समुदानीतमुत्तरम्
anādiprakṛtisthaṃ ca samudānītamuttaram
།རིགས་དེ་རྣམ་གཉིས་ཤེས་བྱ་སྟེ།
།ཐོག་མེད་རང་བཞིན་གནས་པ་དང་།
།ཡང་དག་བླང་བ་མཆོག་ཉིད་དོ།
Being like a treasure and a fruit tree—
The naturally abiding one without beginning
And the accomplished one.
La filiation spirituelle a deux aspects Présente sans commencement [en tant que] nature [de l’esprit] Et suprême [quand on l’a] correctement adoptée.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Being like a treasure and like (the germ of) a tree in a seed,
- The source (of Buddhahood) is known, to be of 2 kinds,—
- The Fundamental that exists without beginning,
- And that which undergoes the highest process of development.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- The Germ [of the Buddha] is known to be twofold,
- Being like a treasure and like a tree [grown] from a seed;
- The Innate [Germ] existing since the beginningless time
- And that which has acquired the highest development.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Similar to the treasure and the fruit of a tree,
- the disposition is to be known in two aspects,
- as it has existed [as] the nature since beginningless time
- and has become supreme [through] right cultivation.
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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.