Verse I.72 Variations
तथा लोकेऽपि जातोऽसौ लोकधर्मैर्न लिप्यते
tathā loke'pi jāto'sau lokadharmairna lipyate
།སྐྱེས་པ་ཆུ་ཡིས་གོས་པ་མེད།
།དེ་བཞིན་འདི་ནི་འཇིག་རྟེན་དུ།
།སྐྱེས་ཀྱང་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཆོས་མི་གོས།
Is not tainted by the water,
So they are born in the world
But are untainted by worldly dharmas.
N’est pas souillé par l’eau, De même naissent-ils dans le monde Sans que les choses du monde les souillent.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Just as a lotus flower growing in the water
- Is not rendered impure by the latter,
- In the same way he, though abiding in the world,
- Is not influenced by the worldly elements.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Just as a lotus flower growing in the water
- Is not polluted by the latter,
- Similarly, though having been born in the world
- He is never polluted by worldly matters.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- As a lotus will grow in the midst of water,
- not being polluted by the water's [faults],
- these [noble ones] are born in the world
- unpolluted by-any worldly phenomena.
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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.