Verse II.31 Variations
सर्वज्ञज्ञानविषयं बुद्धत्वं ज्ञानदेहिभिः
sarvajñajñānaviṣayaṃ buddhatvaṃ jñānadehibhiḥ
སངས་རྒྱས་ཤེས་གསུམ་ཡུལ་མིན་ཕྱིར། །
ཡེ་ཤེས་ལུས་ཅན་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ནི། །
བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་པར་རྟོགས་པར་བྱ། །
Since it is not the object of the three wisdoms,
It is to be understood as being inconceivable
[Even] by people with wisdom.
- La bouddhéité est l’objet de l’omnisciente
- Sagesse primordiale et non des trois connaissances.
- Les êtres pourvus d’un corps de sagesse [autres que les bouddhas]
- Comprendront qu’elle est inconcevable.
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Obermiller (1931) [7]
- Buddhahood is accessible only to the Wisdom of the Omniscient,
- Is not the object of the 3 (kinds of ordinary) knowledge,
- Therefore those, endowed with spiritual bodies
- Cognize it as being inconceivable.
Takasaki (1966) [8]
- Buddhahood is accessible only to the Wisdom of the Omniscient,
- And is not the object of the 3 [kinds of ordinary] knowledge ,
- Therefore, it is to be known as 'inconceivable'
- [Even] for those people of intellect.
Fuchs (2000) [9]
- Being the object of the omniscient primordial wisdom,
- buddhahood is not an object for the three types of insight.
- So even those with a wisdom body must realize
- that [buddha enlightenment] is inconceivable.
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- 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.
- VT (fol. 14r6) glosses "the three wisdoms" as "those of study, reflection, and meditation" and "people with wisdom" as "śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas."
- VT (fol. 14r7) glosses °madhya° as °sthāna°, while Takasaki suggests the reading °sudma° instead of °madhya° (DP khyim).
- Skt. mṛdukarmaṇyabhāvāt. DP read "since it is nondual and workable" (gnyis med las su rung ba’i phyir).
- 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.