Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.76
Verse IV.76 Variations
संबुद्धपृथिवीमेवमविकल्पामशेषतः
जगत्कुशलमूलानि वृद्धिमाश्रित्य यान्ति हि
जगत्कुशलमूलानि वृद्धिमाश्रित्य यान्ति हि
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
saṃbuddhapṛthivīmevamavikalpāmaśeṣataḥ
jagatkuśalamūlāni vṛddhimāśritya yānti hi
jagatkuśalamūlāni vṛddhimāśritya yānti hi
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
དེ་བཞིན་རྫོགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ས། །
རྣམ་རྟོག་མེད་པ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས། །
འགྲོ་བའི་དགེ་བའི་རྩ་བ་རྣམས། །
མ་ལུས་པར་ནི་འཕེལ་བར་འགྱུར། །
རྣམ་རྟོག་མེད་པ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས། །
འགྲོ་བའི་དགེ་བའི་རྩ་བ་རྣམས། །
མ་ལུས་པར་ནི་འཕེལ་བར་འགྱུར། །
So the roots of virtue of beings
Come to grow without exception
By relying on the earth of a perfect buddha
Who is without thoughts.
Come to grow without exception
By relying on the earth of a perfect buddha
Who is without thoughts.
- De même, prenant appui sur la terre
- Du parfait Bouddha, laquelle n’a pas de pensées,
- Les racines de bien des êtres
- Croîtront toutes sans exception.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
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Obermiller (1931) [5]
- In a like way, having, without any searching thought,
- Their foundation in that soil which is the Supreme Buddha,
- The roots of virtue of the living beings
- Can thrive in all their different forms.
Takasaki (1966) [6]
- Similarly, the roots of virtues in the world,
- Taking resort to the ground of the Buddha
- Who has no searching thought,
- Proceed completely towards growth.
Fuchs (2000) [7]
- Likewise, relying on the Perfect Buddha,
- who [like] the earth is free from thought,
- every root of virtue of sentient beings
- without exception will flourish and grow.
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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.
- Jñānālokālaṃkārasūtra, D100, fols. 288a.5–288b.4.
- 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.
།ས་བཞིན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། ཇི་ལྟར་ས་ལས་སྐྱེ་བ་ཀུན། །རྟོག་མེད་ས་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་ནི། །འཕེལ་དང་{br}བསྟན་དང་ཡངས་འགྱུར་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་རྫོགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ས། །རྣམ་རྟོག་མེད་པ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས། །འགྲོ་བའི་དགེ་བའི་རྩ་བ་ནི། །མ་ལུས་པར་ནི་འཕེལ་བར་འགྱུར།