Verse V.3 Variations
बुद्धक्षेत्ररजःसमान्यहरहो धर्मेश्वरेभ्यः सदा
यश्चान्यः शृणुयादितः पदमपि श्रुत्वाधिमुच्येदयं
तस्माद्दानमयाच्छुंभाद्बहुतरं पुण्यं समासादयेत्
buddhakṣetrarajaḥsamānyaharaho dharmeśvarebhyaḥ sadā
yaścānyaḥ śṛṇuyāditaḥ padamapi śrutvādhimucyedayaṃ
tasmāddānamayācchuṃbhādbahutaraṃ puṇyaṃ samāsādayet
།སངས་རྒྱས་ཞིང་རྡུལ་མཉམ་པ་ཉིན་རེ་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་རྣམས་ལ་རྟག་འབུལ་ན།
།གཞན་གང་འདི་ལས་ཚིག་ཙམ་ཐོས་ཤིང་ཐོས་ནས་ཀྱང་ནི་མོས་ན་འདི།
།སྦྱིན་པ་ལས་བྱུང་དགེ་བ་དེ་ལས་བསོད་ནམས་ཆེས་མང་ཐོབ་པར་འགྱུར།
Equal [in number] to the particles in [all] buddha realms, to the lords of dharma always, day after day,
While some others were to hear [just] one word of this [dharma] and, upon hearing it, would have faith in it—
The latter would attain far more merit than the virtue arising from such generosity.
aux souverains du Dharma, Jour après jour, des champs d’or incrustés de joyaux en nombre égal aux atomes de tous les champs de bouddhas. Imaginez maintenant un autre être qui n’aurait entendu qu’un seul mot [du présent traité] et qu’en l’entendant il y ait cru Cet être en tirera beaucoup plus de mérites qu’on en tirera de la vertu de générosité [ci-dessus évoquée].
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Obermiller (1931) [10]
- One, being desirous to attain Enlightenment,
- And possessed of gold and jewels
- Equal in number to the sands in all the worlds of the Buddhas,
- Daily offers them to the Lord of the Doctrine;
- Another, if he hears but one word (of this Teaching)
- And through this attains faith, will reap merit
- Greater than that of such an offering.
Takasaki (1966) [11]
- Suppose there were one who, being anxious to obtain the Enlightenment,
- Would offer golden lands, constructed by jewels
- As innumerable as the sands in the Buddha's lands,
- To the Lord of Doctrine, always, day after day;
- Another if he hear but one word of this teaching,
- After hearing of it, would have faith in this Doctrine;
- The latter would reap merits far more than the merits of an offering.
Fuchs (2000) [12]
- Someone striving for enlightenment may turn to the Dharma kings,
- offering golden fields adorned with gems
- of equal [number] to the atoms in the buddhafields, and may
- continue doing so every day.
- Another may just hear a word of this, and upon hearing it become
- filled with devotion.
- He will attain merits far greater and more manifold than the virtue
- sprung from this practice of giving.
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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.
- I follow VT (fol. 16v7) caturṣu sthāneṣv (supported by DP and C) instead of just sthāneṣv. These four points are vajra points 4 through 7—the tathāgata heart, awakening, its qualities, and its activity.
- DP "those with pure minds" (dagga pa’i seems).
- Instead of °buddhi, DP read "buddha qualities" (snags rgyas yon tan) in the next line.
- VT (fol. 16v7) glosses "this" as "the discussion of the doctrine that explicitly speaks of the buddha element and so on."
- "The meditative states of the gods"refers to the four dhyānas and the four formless absorptions, while the four brahmāvihāras are the four immeasurables of love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity that lead to rebirth as the god Mahābrahmā.
- With Schmithausen, I follow MB and J saṃbodhyupāyācyutaḥ (supported by DP rdzogs pa’i byang chub ’pho med thabs bsgoms la) against MA saṃbodhyupāyāc cyutaḥ, whose meaning is also found in C.
- 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.