Verse I.56 Variations
कर्मक्लेशाः सदायोनिमनस्कारप्रतिष्ठिताः
karmakleśāḥ sadāyonimanaskārapratiṣṭhitāḥ
ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་དག་ལ་གནས། །
ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་ཚུལ་བཞིན་མིན། །
ཡིད་ལ་བྱེད་ལ་རྟག་ཏུ་གནས། །
Rest on karma and afflictions,
And karma and afflictions always rest on
Improper mental engagement.
- Les agrégats, les domaines et les sens
- Reposent sur les actes et les affections ;
- Les actes et les affections reposent
- Toujours sur les activités erronées du mental.
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Obermiller (1931) [6]
- In a similar manner the elements of life (classified into) groups,
- component elements, and bases of cognition
- Have their foundation in the Biotic Force and Desire,
- And the latter (two) are always supported
- By the naive appreciation (of existence).
Takasaki (1966) [7]
- Similarly all the component elements [of Phenomenal Life]
- Have their foundation in the Active Force and Defilements,
- And the Active Force and Defilements exist always
- On the basis of the Irrational Thought.
Fuchs (2000) [8]
- Likewise skandhas, elements, and senses
- are based upon karma and mental poisons.
- Karma and poisons are always based
- upon improper conceptual activity.
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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.
- This refers to the ancient Indian cosmological model of worlds arising in space due to the four elemental spheres of wind, fire, water, and earth being stacked up in that order and thus supporting the upper spheres. As VT (fol. 13r1) confirms, the element of fire is not mentioned among the four elements in this text because fire is used to illustrate sickness, aging, and death, which destroy one’s prior state of existence.
- Here, the text has indriya, which is always replaced by āyatana below.
- Given the example of space’s being completely unaffected by what arises and ceases in it, I follow DP’s negative before "afflicted" (the Sanskrit and C lack this negative).
- 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.