Verse IV.17 Variations
कुशलं च समादाय वर्तेरंस्तदवाप्तये
kuśalaṃ ca samādāya varteraṃstadavāptaye
།དེ་འདྲའི་སྨོན་ལམ་འདེབས་བྱེད་ཅིང་།
།དེ་ཐོབ་དོན་དུ་དགེ་བ་ནི།
།ཡང་དག་བླངས་ཏེ་གནས་པར་གྱུར།
Become like that lord of gods!"
Then, in order to attain that [state],
They would immerse themselves in adopting virtue.
Des dieux avant longtemps. Pour y parvenir, ils adoptent La vertu et s’y tiennent pour de bon.
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Obermiller (1931) [11]
- May we, at an early date
- Become like that chieftain of the gods!—
- And, in order to attain such a state,
- They would abide in the practice of virtue.
Takasaki (1966) [12]
- "May we too, at an early date,
- Become like that chieftain of the gods!"
- And, in order to obtain that state,
- They would abide adopting the virtues.
Fuchs (2000) [13]
- "Before a long time passes, may I too
- become like this Lord of the Gods!"
- Prayers like these they would utter
- and to achieve this feat would adopt
- genuine virtue and remain within it.
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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.
- D100, fols. 278b.6–280b.1.
- DP "yāna."
- I follow MB saddharmakāyam adhyātmaṃ (corresponding to DP nang gi dam pa’i chos sku) against J saddharmakāyaṃ madhyasthaṃ.
- With Schmithausen and against Takasaki, I take the compound °viṣamasthānāntaramala as consisting of viṣamasthāna, antara, and mall.
- VT (fol. 16r4) glosses śubhra as "clear, transparent" (svacchā). Śubhra can also mean "radiant," "splendid," "spotless," and "bright"; DP have mazes pa.
- I follow Schmithausen’s suggested reading of MB surapatibhavanavyūhendramarutām against J surapatibhavanaṃ māhendramarutām, with °vyūha being supported by D tshogs (P mistakenly has sna tshogs instead of gas tshogs). The maruts are the storm gods who are the retinue of Indra.
- I follow de Jong’s suggested reading cittāny udpādayanti (supported by D seems rab bskyed byed; P mistakenly has gshegs instead of seems) against J cittān vyutpādayanti and Chowdury’s "correction" citrāṇy utpādayanati (see de Jong 1968, 50). Obviously, this refers to all the kinds of mind-sets that represent or flow from bodhicitta.
- 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.