Verse II.69 Variations
दतर्कभूमेरुपमनिवृत्तितः
निरुत्तरत्वाद्भवशान्त्यनुद्ग्रहा-
दचिन्त्य आर्यैरपि बुद्धगोचरः
datarkabhūmerupamanivṛttitaḥ
niruttaratvādbhavaśāntyanudgrahā-
dacintya āryairapi buddhagocaraḥ
རྟོགས་གནས་མིན་ཕྱིར་དཔེ་ལས་འདས་པའི་ཕྱིར། །
བླ་ན་མེད་ཕྱིར་སྲིད་ཞིས་མ་བསྡུས་ཕྱིར། །
རྒྱལ་ཡུལ་འཕགས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཀྱང་བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ། །
Because of not being examinable, because of being beyond example,
Because of being unsurpassable, and because of not being included in
[samsaric] existence or [nirvāṇic] peace,
The sphere of the Buddha is inconceivable even for the noble ones.
- Ineffable, il revient à l’absolu ;
- Ce n’est pas un objet d’analyse ; il échappe à toute comparaison ;
- Insurpassable, l’existence et la paix ne peuvent le contenir ;
- Aux êtres sublimes aussi, le domaine des Vainqueurs
- reste inconcevable.
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Obermiller (1931) [5]
- Unutterable, representing the Absolute Truth,
- Inaccessible to constructive thought and incomparable,
- Being the highest point of perfection,
- Relating neither to the Phenomenal World,
- Nor to the (Hīnayānistic) Nirvāṇa,
- The sphere of Buddhahood is inconceivable even for the Saint.
Takasaki (1966) [6]
- Being unutterable, containing the Highest Truth,
- Inaccessible to investigation and incomparable,
- Being the supreme, and relating neither
- To the Phenomenal World nor to Nirvāṇa,
- The sphere of Buddha is inconceivable even for the Saints.
Fuchs (2000) [7]
- It is not an object of speech and is embraced by the absolute.
- It is not a field for ideation and is beyond any example,
- unexcelled and not embraced by existence and peace.
- Even the noble cannot conceive the sphere of the Victor.
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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.
- With de Jong and following DP dpe las ’das pa’i phyir, upamātivṛttitaḥ seems preferable to upamānivṛttitaḥ.
- 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.
།དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གནས་ཡོངས་སུ་གྱུར་པས་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱེ་བ་ཐོབ་པའི་ཚུལ་དེ་ཡང་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་པའི་ཚུལ་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པར་བྱ་བ་ཡིན་པས་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་པའི་དོན་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་{br}ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། ངག་ཡུལ་མིན་ཕྱིར་དོན་དམ་གྱིས་བསྡུས་ཕྱིར། །རྟོགས་གནས་མིན་ཕྱིར་དཔེ་ལས་འདས་པའི་ཕྱིར། །བླ་ན་མེད་ཕྱིར་སྲིད་ཞིས་མ་བསྡུས་ཕྱིར། །རྒྱལ་ཡུལ་འཕགས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཀྱང་བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ།