Verse I.134 Variations
अरम्यमभवत् पश्चाद्यथा रागरतिस्तथा
aramyamabhavat paścādyathā rāgaratistathā
།མདུན་དུ་གྱུར་ན་ཡིད་དགའ་དང་།
།ཕྱིས་ནས་དགའ་བ་མེད་འགྱུར་བ།
།འདོད་ཆགས་དགའ་བ་དེ་བཞིན་ནོ།
Is so beautiful at first
But is no longer attractive later,
So is the delight of desire.
On se sent toujours heureux. Mais cette joie bientôt s’évanouit, Comme la joie née du désir décline aussi.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- The water-born lotus flower
- At the first appearance causes delight,
- But later on (when it withers) it no more excites joy,
- Similar to it is the delight of sensual passion.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Just as the lotus flower born from the mud
- Is delightful in its first appearance,
- But later on [when it withers], it is no more attractive;
- Similar to it is the delight of Desire.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- When a lotus [just] born from the mud
- appears to [a beholder], it delights his mind.
- Yet later it changes and becomes undelightful.
- The joy born from desire is similar to this.
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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.
- 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.