Verse IV.54 Variations
धर्मकायाद् अविचलन् भव्यानाम् एति दर्शनम्
dharmakāyād avicalan bhavyānām eti darśanam
།བསྐྱོད་པ་མེད་པར་ཁམས་ཀུན་དུ།
།སྐལ་ལྡན་རྣམས་ལ་འབད་མེད་པར།
།སྤྲུལ་པ་དག་ནི་སྟོན་པར་མཛད།
From the dharmakāya,
Effortlessly displays himself to the suitable
Through emanations in all realms.
Et sans effort, le Sage montre des apparences De lui-même dans toutes les sphères Aux êtres assez fortunés pour cela.
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Obermiller (1931) [5]
- In a similar way, in all the regions of the world,
- The Lord, though motionless in his Cosmical Body,
- Shows himself in apparitional forms
- Without effort to those that are worthy.
Takasaki (1966) [6]
- Similarly, the Buddha, without moving from the Absolute Body,
- Comes to the sight of the worthy, without any effort,
- With his apparitional form, n all the worlds.
Fuchs (2000) [7]
- without moving from dharmakaya
- the Muni effortlessly demonstrates
- illusory appearances in every realm
- to beings who have karmic fortune.
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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.
- Jñānālokālaṃkārasūtra, D100, fols. 283a.5–284b.5.
- 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.