Verse I.69 Variations
दृश्यते यदविद्यान्धैर्जात्यादिषु तदद्भूतम्
dṛśyate yadavidyāndhairjātyādiṣu tadadbhūtam
།རྟོགས་ནས་མ་རིག་ལྡོངས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས།
།སྐྱེ་བ་ལ་སོགས་དག་ཏུ་ནི།
།མཐོང་བ་གང་ཡིན་དེ་སྨད་དོ།
Is changeless, the children of the victors
Are [still] seen as [being subject to] birth and so on
By those blinded by ignorance—this is amazing!
Mais ceux que l’ignorance aveugle Les voient [toujours] naître, vieillir, tomber malades et mourir N’y a-t-il pas là quelque étonnante merveille ?
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- The son of the Buddha directly perceives
- This immutable Absolute Essence;
- Nevertheless, he is to be seen
- As one of those obscured by ignorance,
- Subjected to birth and the like;
- This is really wonderful!
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- The son of the Buddha, though having understood that
- This Absolute Essence is unchangeable,
- Is still perceived by the ignorant
- In the appearances of birth, etc.:-
- This is really wonderful!
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- After the heirs of the Victorious One
- have realized this changeless state,
- those who are blinded by ignorance
- see them as being born and so forth.
- That such seeing should occur is truly wonderful and amazing.
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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.