Verse I.131 Variations
अपर्यन्तोपसंक्लेशकोशकोट्यस्तु भेदतः
aparyantopasaṃkleśakośakoṭyastu bhedataḥ
སྦུབས་སོགས་དཔེ་ནི་རབ་བསྟན་ཏེ། །
ཉེ་བའི་ཉོན་མོངས་སྦུབས་ཀྱི་ནི། །
དབྱེ་བ་བྱེ་བ་མཐའ་ལས་འདས། །
Of the sheath of a lotus and so on,
But the cocoons of the proximate afflictions
In all their variety are infinite millions.
- Voilà neuf groupes [de souillures] qu’illustrent
- Le lotus fané et les autres comparaisons,
- Mais les enveloppes des affections secondaires
- Présentent des millions et des millions de subdivisions.
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Obermiller (1931) [4]
- These 9 forms (of defilement) are illustrated
- By the example of the petals of the lotus and the rest;
- But all the coverings of defilement
- In their variety extend beyond millions and millions.
Takasaki (1966) [5]
- These 9 kinds of [defilements] are illustrated
- By the example of the sheath of a lotus flower and others;
- In their variety, however, the coverings of Defilements
- Extend beyond the limit of extremity in number.
Fuchs (2000) [6]
- ...are fully taught
- by the shroud of the lotus and the other examples.
- [When] classified, the shroud of the secondary poisons
- is beyond any end.
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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.
- DP "path" (lam).
- 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.