Verse I.140 Variations
भावनाज्ञानहेयानां पूतिवस्त्रनिदर्शनम्
bhāvanājñānaheyānāṃ pūtivastranidarśanam
འཇིག་ཚོགས་སྙིང་པོ་བཅོམ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས། །
བསྒོམ་ལམ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྤང་བྱ་རྣམས། །
གོས་ཧྲུལ་དག་དང་མཚུངས་པར་བསྟན། །
Whose core—[views about] a real personality—has been relinquished
As a necessary consequence of the noble path [of seeing],
Are illustrated by a filthy garment.
修道斷煩惱 故說弊壞衣
- Une fois reliés à la voie des êtres sublimes,
- [Les arhats] ont vaincu l’essentiel – la croyance à l’individualité.
- Les objets que la sagesse primordiale élimine sur la voie de méditation
- Ressemblent, dit-on, à des guenilles ou des haillons.
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Obermiller (1931) [7]
- The Obscurations which are to be removed
- By the Wisdom on the Path of Concentrated Trance
- Of those who, acting on the Path of a Saint,
- Have done away with the views of a real personality,—
- Are shown as resembling a tattered garment.
Takasaki (1966) [8]
- Those who have destroyed the ground of conception of personality
- Are following in the [Practice of the] Saintly Path;
- Therefore, their Defilements which are to be rejected
- By the Wisdom of Practice are said to be like a tattered garment.
Fuchs (2000) [9]
- Through their junction with the noble path
- they have overcome the essential part of the transitory collection.
- What their wisdom must abandon [on] the path of meditation
- is explained as being similar to tattered rags.
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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 "Just as an unknown treasure is not obtained due to its gems being obscured, so the self-arisen in people [skye la is difficult to construct] is obscured by the ground of the latent tendencies of ignorance" (ji ltar nor ni bsgribs pas na / mi shes gter mi thob pa ltar / de bzhin skye la rang byung nyid / ma rig bag chags sa yis bsgribs /).
- Against Takasaki and DP (ram par smin pa bzhin) understanding °vat in vipākavat as "like,"I follow de Jong’s suggestion of taking vipākavat as a possessive adjective relating to jñānam Thus, the nonconceptual wisdom mentioned here seems to refer to the wisdom on the last three bhūmis that emerges from the stains of the preceding seven bhūmis, just as an embryo emerges from the womb.
- DP omit "wisdom."
- DP "basic element" (khams).
- 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.
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