Verse I.151 Variations
अकृत्रिमत्वात् प्रकृतेर्गुणरत्नाश्रयत्वतः
akṛtrimatvāt prakṛterguṇaratnāśrayatvataḥ
།རིན་ཆེན་སྐུ་འདྲར་ཤེས་བྱ་སྟེ།
།རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་ནི་བྱས་མིན་དང་།
།ཡོན་ཏན་རིན་ཆེན་གཏེར་ཡིན་ཕྱིར།
Should be known to be like a precious statue
Because it is without artifice by nature,
And is the foundation of precious qualities.
Est comparable à une précieuse image Parce que ce corps de nature incréée Et ses qualités forment un trésor de joyaux.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- The Body of Absolute Existence
- Is like a beautiful, precious image,
- Since, by nature, it is not wrought (by human hands)
- And is the treasury of all the virtuous properties.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- The Body of the Absolute Essence is pure
- And is known to be like the precious image,
- Since, by nature, it is non-artificial
- And is the substratum of precious properties.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- The beautiful svabhavikakaya
- is like the statue of precious material,
- since [it exists] naturally, is not created,
- and is a treasure of gem-like qualities.
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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.