Verse II.66 Variations
शमामृतपदप्राप्तौ मृत्युमाराप्रचारतः
śamāmṛtapadaprāptau mṛtyumārāpracārataḥ
འཇིག་རྟེན་ཆོས་ཀྱིས་གོས་མེད་ཕྱིར། །
འཆི་མེད་ཞི་བའི་གནས་ཐོབ་ལ། །
འཆི་བདུད་རྒྱུ་བ་མེད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །
While acting in the world,
By virtue of the māra of death not stirring
Within the attainment of the state of immortality and peace,
- Et comme, lors même qu’il agit dans le monde,
- Les choses du monde ne peuvent pas le souiller ;
- [Le corps absolu est permanent] parce qu’il a trouvé
- l’immortalité et la paix
- Là où le démon de la mort ne court plus.
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Obermiller (1931) [9]
- He, whilst acting in this world,
- Is unaffected by the worldly elements.
- He has attained the state of immortality and quiescence,
- Leaving no room for the activity of the Demon of Death;
Takasaki (1966) [10]
- While he is acting in the world,
- He is unaffected by the worldly elements;
- Having attained the state of quiescence and immortality,
- He leaves no room for [the activity of] the demon of Death;
Fuchs (2000) [11]
- While acting in the world [for other's good]
- they are unsullied by all worldly phenomena.
- Free from dying, it is the attainment of peace.
- In this sphere the demon of death cannot roam.
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- Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
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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.
- As will be seen in the text below, in verses II.63–68, two lines each correspond to the ten reasons in II.62 for buddhahood’s being permanent, with "protector of the world"in II.62d (VT fol. 14v6: lokanāthatvāt) being considered the tenth reason.
- I follow MB °pādapraṇetuś ca against J pādaprakāśāc ca.
- The phrase in "[ ]" is found in C.
- I follow VT (fol. 14v6) °śaraṇādyutpattitaḥ against MB and J °śaraṇābhyupapattitaḥ (confirmed by DP skyabs la sogs pa ’thad phyir ro). VT furthermore glosses "refuge" as "dharmakāya, sambhogakāya, nirmāṇakāya."
- . I follow MB nityatāśaraṇānāṃ (confirmed by VT, fol. 14v6) against J nityam aśaraṇānāṃ.
- 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.