Verse I.20

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.20

Verse I.20 Variations

त्याज्यत्वान् मोषधर्मत्वादभावात् सभयत्वतः
धर्मो द्विधार्यसंघश्च नात्यन्तं शरणं परम्

tyājyatvān moṣadharmatvādabhāvāt sabhayatvataḥ
dharmo dvidhāryasaṃghaśca nātyantaṃ śaraṇaṃ param

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[1]

།སྤང་ཕྱིར་བསླུ་བའི་ཆོས་ཅན་ཕྱིར།
།མེད་ཕྱིར་འཇིགས་དང་བཅས་པའི་ཕྱིར།
།ཆོས་རྣམས་གཉིས་དང་འཕགས་པའི་ཚོགས།
།གཏན་གྱི་སྐྱབས་མཆོག་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།

Dege, PHI, 110

Because of being abandoned, because of having a deceptive nature,
Because of being nonexistent, and because of being fearful,
The twofold dharma and the noble saṃgha
Are not the ultimate supreme refuge.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 349. ^[2]

Ni le Dharma sous ses deux aspects ni la sublime assemblée

Ne sont de suprêmes refuges promis à durer. L’un parce qu’il faudra le laisser derrière soi, parce qu’il est trompeur et qu’il n’existe pas ; Et l’autre parce qu’on y trouve encore de la peur.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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tyājyatvān moṣadharmatvādabhāvāt sabhayatvataḥ/

dharmo dvidhāryasaṃghaśca nātyantaṃ śaraṇaṃ param//20//

dvividho dharmaḥ/ deśanādharmo'dhigamadharmaśca/ tatra deśanādharmaḥ sūtrādideśanāyā nāmapadavyañjanakāyasaṃgṛhītaḥ/ sa ca mārgābhisamayaparyavasānatvāt kolopama ityuktaḥ/ adhigamadharmo hetuphalabhedena dvividhaḥ/ yaduta mārgasatyaṃ nirodhasatyaṃ ca/ yena yadadhigamyata iti kṛtvā/ tatra mārgaḥ saṃskṛtalakṣaṇaparyāpannaḥ/ yat saṃskṛtalakṣaṇaparyāpannaṃ tan mṛṣāmoṣadharmi/ yan mṛṣāmoṣadharmi tadasatyam/ yadasatyaṃ tadanityam/ yadanityaṃ tadśaraṇam/ yaśca tena mārgeṇa nirodho'dhigataḥ so'pi śrāvakanayena pradīpocchedavat kleśaduḥkhābhāvamātraprabhāvitaḥ/ na cābhāvaḥ śaraṇamaśaraṇaṃ vā bhavitumarhati/

saṃgha iti traiyānikasya gaṇasyaitadadhivacanam/ sa ca nityaṃ sabhayastathāgataśaraṇagato niḥsaraṇaparyeṣī śaikṣaḥ sakaraṇīyaḥ pratipannakaścānuttarāyāṃ samyaksaṃbodhāviti/ kathaṃ samayaḥ/ yasmādarhatāmapi kṣīṇapunarbhavānāmaprahīṇatvādvāsaṃnāyāḥ satatasamitaṃ sarvāsaṃskāreṣu tīvrā bhayasaṃjñā pratyupasthitā bhavati syādyathāpi nāmotkṣiptāsike vadhakapuruṣe tasmātte'pi nātyantasukhaniḥsaraṇamadhigatāḥ/ na hi śaraṇaṃ śaraṇaṃ paryeṣate/ yathaivā śaraṇāḥ sattvā yena tena bhayena bhītāstatastato niḥsaraṇaṃ paryeṣante tadvadarhatāmapyasti tadbhayaṃ yataste bhayādbhītāstathāgatameva śaraṇamupagacchanti/ yaścaivaṃ sabhayatvāccharaṇamupagacchatyavaśyaṃ bhayānniḥsaraṇaṃ sa paryeṣyate/ niḥsaraṇaparyeṣitvācca bhayanidānaprahāṇamadhikṛtya śaikṣo bhavati sakaraṇīyaḥ/ śaikṣatvāt pratipannako bhavatyabhayamāryabhasthānamanuprāptuṃ yadutānuttarāṃ samyaksaṃbodhim/ tasmātso'pi tadaṅgaśaraṇatvānnātyantaṃ śaraṇam/ evamime dve śaraṇe paryantakāle śaraṇe ityucyete/

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Holmes (1985) ^[3]

Neither both aspects of dharma

nor the deeply-realised sangha

constitute a supreme refuge

that will last forever -

because they are to be abandoned,

one is an inconstant and

one nothing whatsoever

and because they have fear.

Fuchs (2000) ^[4]

[The Dharma] will be abandoned and is of an unsteady nature.

It is not [the ultimate quality], and [the Sangha] is still with fear.

Thus the two aspects of Dharma and the Assembly of noble ones

do not represent the supreme refuge, which is constant and stable.

Textual sources

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Academic notes

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.
Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.
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.

[1] Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input

[2] 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.

[3] Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.

[4] 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.

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