Verse I.77 Variations
समतामेति लोकेषु सत्त्वसंतारणं प्रति
samatāmeti lokeṣu sattvasaṃtāraṇaṃ prati
།རྗེས་ཐོབ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་རྣམས་དང་།
།སེམས་ཅན་ཡང་དག་སྒྲོལ་བ་ལ།
།འཇིག་རྟེན་ན་ནི་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད།
For the worlds, bodhisattvas are equal
To tathāgatas in terms of
Delivering sentient beings.
Entre la façon de libérer les êtres Propre aux tathāgatas et celle Des bodhisattvas en post-méditation.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- This character of the Bodhisattva
- Bears a similarity with (the activity of) the Buddhas in this world,
- Which they undertake after the attainment (of Enlightenment)
- In order to bring deliverance to all living beings.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Having obtained this position,
- The Bodhisattva becomes equal to the Tathāgata
- On account of his act of conveying the living beings
- In various worlds, to the other shore.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- The way the bodhisattvas [unfold activity]
- in the post-meditative phase
- equals the tathagatas' [action] in the world
- for beings' true liberation.
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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.