Verse I.152 Variations
प्रतिबिम्बस्वभावत्वान्निर्माणं हेमबिम्बवत्
pratibimbasvabhāvatvānnirmāṇaṃ hemabimbavat
།རྫོགས་ལོངས་འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར་བཞིན་ནོ།
།གཟུགས་བརྙན་གྱི་ནི་རང་བཞིན་ཕྱིར།
།སྤྲུལ་པ་གསེར་གྱི་གཟུགས་ལྟ་བུ།
The sambhoga[kāya] is like a cakravartin.
Because it has the nature of a reflection,
The nirmāṇa[kāya] is like a golden image.
Parce qu’il détient le grand royaume du vrai Dharma. Le corps d’apparition est alors comparé à une forme en or Parce qu’il a la nature des reflets.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- The Body of Supreme Bliss is like a universal monarch,
- Being endowed with the sovereignty over the Grand Doctrine,
- And the Apparitional Form is like a golden statue,
- As it has the nature of being an image.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- The [Body of] Enjoyment is like the Universal Lord
- Since it is the great Emperor of Religion;
- The Apparitional Body is like a golden statue
- Since is has the nature of being an image.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Wielding the sublime majesty of the Great Dharma,
- the sambhoga[kaya] resembles the Chakravartin.
- Being of the nature of a [mere] representation,
- the nirmana[kaya] is similar to the golden image.
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- 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.