Verse I.103 Variations
र्मधूपमं धातुमिमं विलोक्य
तदावृतीनां भ्रमरोपमाना-
मश्लेषमात्यन्तिकमादधाति
rmadhūpamaṃ dhātumimaṃ vilokya
tadāvṛtīnāṃ bhramaropamānā-
maśleṣamātyantikamādadhāti
རིག་ཁམས་སྦྲང་རྩི་དང་འདྲ་དེ་གཟིགས་ནས། །
དེ་ཡི་སྒྲིབ་པ་སྦྲང་མ་དང་འདྲ་བ། །
གཏན་ནས་རབ་ཏུ་སྤོང་བར་མཛད་པ་ཡིན། །
Which he perceives with his omniscient eye, is like honey
And thus accomplishes the complete removal
Of its obscurations that are like bees.
- Le grand ermite, qui voit d’un œil omniscient
- L’Élément de connaissance comparable au miel,
- N’a de cesse que d’éliminer à jamais
- Les voiles ici comparés à des abeilles.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Similarly, the Greatest of Sages with his vision of Omniscience,
- Sees this fundamental Essence, resembling honey,
- And brings about the complete removal
- Of the Obscurations that are like the bees.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Similarly, the Great Sage, possessed of the eyes of the Omniscience,
- Perceiving this Essence known as akin to honey,
- Accomplishes the non-connection of the Essence
- With the bees-like obscurations, completely.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Likewise, when his eye of omniscience
- sees the honey-like element of awareness,
- the Great Sage causes its bee-like veils
- to be fully and radically abandoned.
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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.