Verse I.122

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.122

Verse I.122 Variations

अनाथशालेव भवोपपत्ति-
रन्तर्वतीस्त्रीवदशुद्धसत्त्वाः
तद्‍गर्भवत्तेष्वमलः स धातु-
र्भवन्ति यस्मिन्सति ते सनाथाः
anāthaśāleva bhavopapatti-
rantarvatīstrīvadaśuddhasattvāḥ
tadgarbhavatteṣvamalaḥ sa dhātu-
rbhavanti yasminsati te sanāthāḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
སྲིད་པར་སྐྱེ་བ་མགོན་མེད་ཁྱིམ་བཞིན་ཏེ། །
མ་དག་སེམས་ཅན་མངལ་ལྡན་བུད་མེད་བཞིན། །
དེ་ལ་གང་ཞིག་ཡོད་པས་མགོན་བཅས་པ། །
དྲི་མེད་ཁམས་ནི་དེ་ཡི་མངལ་གནས་བཞིན། །
Dege, PHI, 119
Being born in [saṃsāric] existence is like a place for those without protection,
Impure sentient beings resemble the pregnant woman,
The stainless basic element in them is similar to her embryo,
And due to its existence, these [beings] do have a protector.
When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 398 [2]
如彼貧窮舍 三有亦如是

懷胎女人者 喻不淨眾生
如彼藏中胎 眾生性亦爾
內有無垢性 名為不孤獨

http://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/en/T31n1611_p0815a23
L’asile pour les déshérités est une image
de la naissance dans le saṃsāra
Et la femme enceinte figure les êtres qui ne se sont pas purifiés.
Ce qui est présent en elle assure sa protection ;
Quant à l’Élément immaculé, il est comparable
[au monarque] qu’elle porte en son sein.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ནི་སེམས་ཅན་ཞུགས་པའི་མི་མོ་དང་འདྲ་ལ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་ཁམས་ནི་མེར་མེར་པོའི་འབྱུང་བ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་གནས་པའི་འཁོར་ལོས་སྒྱུར་བ་ལྟ་བུ་སྟེ། ཇི་ལྟར་མི་མོ་གཟུགས་ངན་མགོན་{br}མེད་འགའ། །མགོན་མེད་འདུག་གནས་སུ་ནི་འདུག་གྱུར་ལ། །མངལ་གྱིས་རྒྱལ་པོའི་དཔལ་ནི་འཛིན་བྱེད་པས། །རང་ལྟོ་ན་ཡོད་མི་བདག་མི་ཤེས་ལྟར། །སྲིད་པར་སྐྱེ་བ་མགོན་མེད་ཁྱིམ་བཞིན་ཏེ། །མ་དག་སེམས་ཅན་མངལ་ལྡན་བུད་མེད་བཞིན། །དེ་ལ་གང་ཞིག་ཡོད་{br}པས་མགོན་བཅས་པ། །དྲི་མེད་ཁམས་ནི་དེ་ཡི་མངལ་གནས་བཞིན། །ཇི་ལྟར་བུད་མེད་ལུས་ལ་དྲི་བཅས་གོས་གོན་མི་སྡུག་གཟུགས་ལྡན་པ། །ས་བདག་མངལ་ན་གནས་ཀྱང་མགོན་མེད་ཁང་པར་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མཆོག་མྱོང་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་བདག་རང་ནང་གནས་མགོན་ཡོད་གྱུར་ཀྱང་{br}མགོན་མེད་བློ་ལྡན་པ། །འགྲོ་བ་ཉོན་མོངས་དབང་གིས་ཡིད་མ་ཞི་བས་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བཞི་ལ་གནས།

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931) [7]
The birth in this world is like the house without shelter,
And the impure living beings are like that pregnant woman;
The Immaculate Germ through which one is protected
Is like (the king) abiding in the womb.
Takasaki (1966) [8]
The generation of worldly existence is like an orphanage,
Like a pregnant woman are the impure living beings,
And the immaculate Essence in them is like that embryo,
Owing to the existence of which, they become possessed of protection.
Fuchs (2000) [9]
Birth in an existence is similar to the poorhouse.
Impure beings are like the woman bearing [a king] in her womb.
Since he is present within her, she has protection.
The undefiled element is like [the king] who dwells in her womb.

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Academic notes

  1. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  2. 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.
  3. In India, this means abandoned by one’s husband or being a widow.
  4. DP lit. "by the womb" (mngal gyis). However, as the next verse shows, garbha here clearly refers to the embryo of the cakravartin.
  5. VT (fol. 13v4) glosses "impure sentient beings" as "those who engage in wrongdoing" (pāpācārāḥ).
  6. VT (fol. 13v4) glosses sannāthāḥ as santaś cāmī nāthāś ca, while DP only have moon bcas (corresponding to sanātha).
  7. Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
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