Verse I.63

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.63

Verse I.63 Variations

चित्तस्य यासौ प्रकृतिः प्रभास्वरा
न जातु सा द्यौरिव याति विक्रियाम्
आगन्तुकै रागमलादिभिस्त्वसा-
वुपैति संक्लेशमभूतकल्पजैः

cittasya yāsau prakṛtiḥ prabhāsvarā
na jātu sā dyauriva yāti vikriyām
āgantukai rāgamalādibhistvasā-
vupaiti saṃkleśamabhūtakalpajaiḥ

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[1]

སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་འོད་གསལ་གང་ཡིན་པ། །
དེ་ནི་ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན་དུ་འགྱུར་མེད་དེ། །
ཡང་དག་མིན་རྟོགས་ལས་བྱུང་འདོད་ཆགས་སོགས། །
གློ་བུར་དྲི་མས་དེ་ཉོན་མོངས་མི་འགྱུར། །

Dege, PHI, 114

The luminous nature of the mind
Is completely unchanging, just like space.
It is not afflicted by adventitious stains,
Such as desire, born from false imagination.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 376 ^[2]

如虛空淨心常明元轉變

為虛妄分別客塵煩惱染

http://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/en/T31n1611_p0832c24

La nature de l’esprit, qui est luminosité,

Est immuable comme l’espace.

Nées d’idées fausses, les souillures adventices

Comme l’attachement ne l’affecteront jamais.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

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།དེ་ལ་མ་དག་པའི་གནས་སྐབས་ན་འགྱུར་བ་མེད་པའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ལས་བརྩམས་པའི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པོ་གང་དག་ཅེ་ན། ཇི་ལྟར་ནམ་མཁའ་ཀུན་སོང་བ། །ཕྲ་ཕྱིར་ཉེ་བར་གོས་པ་མེད། །དེ་བཞིན་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ། །གནས་འདི་ཉེ་བར་གོས་པ་མེད། །ཇི་ལྟར་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ། །ནམ་མཁའ་ལ་ནི་སྐྱེ་ཞིང་འཇིག །དེ་བཞིན་འདུས་མ་བྱས་དབྱིངས་ལ། །དབང་པོ་རྣམས་ནི་སྐྱེ་ཞིང་འཇིག །ཇི་ལྟར་ནམ་མཁའ་མེ་

རྣམས་ཀྱིས། །སྔོན་ཆད་ནམ་ཡང་ཚིག་པ་མེད། །དེ་བཞིན་འདི་ནི་འཆི་བ་དང་། །ན་དང་རྒ་བའི་མེས་མི་འཚིག །ས་ནི་ཆུ་ལ་ཆུ་རླུང་ལ། །རླུང་ནི་མཁའ་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་གནས། །མཁའ་ནི་རླུང་དང་ཆུ་དག་དང་། །ས་ཡི་ཁམས་ལ་གནས་མ་ཡིན། །དེ་བཞིན་ཕུང་པོ་ཁམས་དབང་རྣམས། །ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་དག་ལ་གནས། །ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་ཚུལ་བཞིན་མིན། །ཡིད་ལ་བྱེད་ལ་རྟག་ཏུ་གནས། །ཚུལ་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་ཡིད་བྱེད་ནི། །སེམས་ཀྱི་དག་པ་ལ་རབ་གནས། །སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ཆོས་རྣམས་ནི། །ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཡང་གནས་པ་མེད། །ས་དང་འདྲ་བར་ཕུང་པོ་དང་། །སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ཁམས་རྣམས་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །ཆུ་ཁམས་དང་འདྲ་ལུས་ཅན་གྱི། །ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་ཤེས་བྱ་སྟེ། །ཚུལ་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་ཡིད་བྱེད་ནི། །རླུང་གི་ཁམས་དང་འདྲ་བར་བལྟ། །རང་བཞིན་ནམ་མཁའི་ཁམས་བཞིན་དུ། །དེ་བཞིན་ཅན་མིན་གནས་པ་མེད། །ཚུལ་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་ཡིད་བྱེད་ནི། །སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ལ་གནས་ཏེ། །ཚུལ་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་ཡིད་བྱེད་ཀྱིས། །ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱེ། །ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་ཆུ་ལས་ནི། །ཕུང་པོ་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ཁམས་རྣམས་འབྱུང་། །དེ་འཇིག་པ་དང་འཆགས་པ་ལྟར། །སྐྱེ་དང་འཇིག་པར་འགྱུར་བ་ཡིན། །སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནམ་མཁའ་ཡི། །ཁམས་ལྟར་རྒྱུ་མེད་རྐྱེན་མེད་དེ། །ཚོགས་པ་མེད་ཅིང་སྐྱེ་བ་དང་། །འཇིག་དང་གནས་པའང་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན། །སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་འོད་གསལ་གང་ཡིན་པ། །དེ་ནི་ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན་དུ་འགྱུར་མེད་དེ། །ཡང་དག་མིན་རྟོགས་ལས་བྱུང་འདོད་ཆགས་སོགས། །གློ་བུར་དྲི་མས་དེ་ཉོན་མོངས་མི་འགྱུར།

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Listed by date of publication

Obermiller (1931) ^[6]

The Spiritual Essence which is pare and radiant

Is inalterable like space

And cannot be polluted by the occasional stains

Of Desire and the other (defiling forces)

Which arise from the wrong conception (of existence).^[7]

Takasaki (1966) ^[8]

The innate nature of the mind is brilliant

And, like space, has no transformation at all;

It bears, however, the impurity by stains of desires, etc.

Which are of accident and produced by wrong conception.

Holmes (1985) ^[9]

This true nature of the mind - clarity,

is, like space, unchanging; not becoming

defiled by desire and so on, passing impurities

which from improper thinking spring.

Holmes (1999) ^[10]

The true nature of mind, clarity, is, like space, unchanging,

never defiled by desire and so forth, the incidental ills

which arise from an improper use of the mind.

Fuchs (2000) ^[11]

This clear and luminous nature of mind

is as changeless as space. It is not afflicted

by desire and so on, the adventitious stains,

which are sprung from incorrect thoughts.

Textual sources

Commentaries on this verse

Academic notes

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.
This is verse 62 in Obermiller's translation
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.
Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.
Holmes, Ken & Katia. Maitreya on Buddha Nature. Scotland: Altea Publishing, 1999.
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.

[1] Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

[4] Here, the text has indriya, which is always replaced by āyatana below.

[5] 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).

[6] Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.

[7] This is verse 62 in Obermiller's translation

[8] 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.

[9] Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.

[10] Holmes, Ken & Katia. Maitreya on Buddha Nature. Scotland: Altea Publishing, 1999.

[11] 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.

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+|EnglishCommentary=Now, what are the twelve verses about the topic of [the tathāgata element’s] being changeless during its phase of being impure?
+::'''Just as all-pervasive space'''
+::'''Is untainted due to its subtlety''',
+::'''So this [basic element] that abides everywhere'''
+::'''In sentient beings is untainted'''. I.52
+::'''Just as the worlds everywhere'''
+::'''Are born and perish in space''',
+::'''So the faculties arise and perish'''
+::'''In the unconditioned basic element'''. I.53
+::'''Just as space was never''' {D97b}
+::'''Burned before by any fires''', {P101a}
+::'''So this [basic element] is not consumed'''
+::'''By the fires of death, sickness, and aging'''. I.54
+::'''Earth rests upon water, water on wind''',
+::'''And wind on space''',
+::'''[But] space does not rest on the elements'''
+::'''Of wind, water, or earth'''.<ref>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.</ref> I.55
+::'''Likewise, skandhas, dhātus, and faculties'''<ref>Here, the text has ''indriya'', which is always replaced by āyatana below.</ref>
+::'''Rest on karma and afflictions''',
+::'''And karma and afflictions always rest on'''
+::'''Improper mental engagement'''. I.56
+::'''Improper mental engagement'''
+::''Rests on the purity of the mind''',
+::'''[But] this nature of the mind does not rest'''
+::''On any of these phenomena'''. I.57
+::'''The skandhas, āyatanas, and dhātus'''
+::'''Should be understood as being like the element of earth'''.
+::'''The karma and afflictions of living beings'''
+::'''Should be understood as resembling the element of water'''. I.58 {J43}
+::'''Improper mental engagement'''
+::'''Is to be known as being like the element of wind'''.
+::'''Being without root and not resting [on anything]''',
+::'''[Mind’s] nature is similar to space'''. I.59
+::'''Improper mental engagement'''
+::'''Rests on the nature of the mind''',
+::'''And improper mental engagement'''
+::'''Produces karma and afflictions'''. I.60
+::'''Skandhas, āyatanas, and dhātus'''
+::'''Arise and disappear'''
+::'''From water-like karma and afflictions''',
+::'''Just as the evolution and dissolution of the [world]'''. I.61
+::'''Lacking causes and conditions''',
+::'''Lacking aggregation, and lacking'''
+::''Arising, ceasing, and abiding''',
+::''The nature of the mind resembles space'''. I.62
+::'''The luminous nature of the mind'''
+::'''Is completely unchanging, just like space'''.
+::'''It is not<ref>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). </ref> afflicted by adventitious stains''',
+::'''Such as desire, born from false imagination'''. I.63
 |OtherTranslations=<center>'''''Listed by date of publication'''''</center>
+<h6>Obermiller (1931) <ref>Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.</ref></h6>
+:The Spiritual Essence which is pare and radiant
+:Is inalterable like space
+:And cannot be polluted by the occasional stains
+:Of Desire and the other (defiling forces)
+:Which arise from the wrong conception (of existence).<ref>This is verse 62 in Obermiller's translation</ref>
+<h6>Takasaki (1966) <ref>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.</ref></h6>
+:The innate nature of the mind is brilliant
+:And, like space, has no transformation at all;
+:It bears, however, the impurity by stains of desires, etc.
+:Which are of accident and produced by wrong conception.
 <h6>Holmes (1985) <ref>Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.</ref></h6>
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 :defiled by desire and so on, passing impurities
 :which from improper thinking spring.
+<h6>Holmes (1999) <ref>Holmes, Ken & Katia. Maitreya on Buddha Nature. Scotland: Altea Publishing, 1999.</ref></h6>
+:The true nature of mind, clarity, is, like space, unchanging,
+:never defiled by desire and so forth, the incidental ills
+:which arise from an improper use of the mind.
 <h6>Fuchs (2000) <ref>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.</ref></h6>