Verse III.6

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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse III.6

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ध्यानादिक्लेशवैमल्ये निवासानुस्मृतावपि
दिव्ये चक्षुषि शान्तौ च ज्ञानं दशविधं बलम्

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

dhyānādikleśavaimalye nivāsānusmṛtāvapi
divye cakṣuṣi śāntau ca jñānaṃ daśavidhaṃ balam

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[2]

ཉོན་མོངས་དྲི་མ་མེད་པ་དང་། །
གནས་ནི་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པ་དང་། །
ལྷ་ཡི་མིག་དང་ཞི་བ་དག
། །མཁྱེན་པའི་སྟོབས་ནི་རྣམ་པ་བཅུ།

Dege, PHI, 130

Afflicted and stainless dhyānas and so on,
Recollection of [former birth]places,
The divine eye, and peace—
Knowing these represents the ten kinds of power.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 430 ^[3]

Souillées ou immaculées,

Le souvenir des existences [passées],

L’œil divin et l’apaisement

Voilà les dix forces de connaissance.

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

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།སྟོབས་རྣམས་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། གནས་དང་གནས་མིན་ལས་རྣམས་ཀྱི། །རྣམ་སྨིན་དང་ནི་དབང་པོ་དང་། །ཁམས་རྣམས་དང་ནི་མོས་པ་དང་། །ཀུན་འགྲོའི་ལམ་དང་བསམ་གཏན་སོགས། །ཉོན་མོངས་དྲི་མ་མེད་པ་དང་། །{br}གནས་ནི་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པ་དང་། །ལྷ་ཡི་མིག་དང་ཞི་བ་དག །མཁྱེན་པའི་སྟོབས་ནི་རྣམ་པ་བཅུ།

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931) ^[5]

In the states of mystic absorption and the like,

The power of remembering the place of former residence,

The Divine Vision and the Wisdom that pacifies (all the defiling forces).

It is said that (these Powers) resemble a thunderbolt.一

Takasaki (1966) ^[6]

Of the impurity and purity in contemplation, etc.,

Of the memory of the previous abodes,

Of the Divine Eyes, and of Quiescence,

Such are the ten kinds of Power [of the Buddha].

Fuchs (2000) ^[7]

knowing meditative stability and so o n—

when it is afflicted or without pollution—

memory of past states, divine sight, and peace

are the ten aspects of the power of knowledge.

Textual sources

Commentaries on this verse

Academic notes

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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. 15v2–3) glosses "what is the case" as "[karmic] causes"; "maturation of karmas," as "the maturation of these karmic [causes]"; "faculties," as the five mental faculties "such as confidence"; "constitutions," as "having the nature of desire and so on"; "inclinations," as "the inclinations of those who have such natures"; "the path that leads everywhere," as "going to hell due to hateful behavior and to heaven, due to virtuous behavior"; "[afflicted] dhyānas," as "obscurations of dhyāna"; and "peace," as "the termination of contamination." For the individual causes of the ten powers according to the Ratnadārikāsūtra, see the note on III.5–6 in CMW.
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.

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[3] 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.

[4] VT (fol. 15v2–3) glosses "what is the case" as "[karmic] causes"; "maturation of karmas," as "the maturation of these karmic [causes]"; "faculties," as the five mental faculties "such as confidence"; "constitutions," as "having the nature of desire and so on"; "inclinations," as "the inclinations of those who have such natures"; "the path that leads everywhere," as "going to hell due to hateful behavior and to heaven, due to virtuous behavior"; "[afflicted] dhyānas," as "obscurations of dhyāna"; and "peace," as "the termination of contamination." For the individual causes of the ten powers according to the Ratnadārikāsūtra, see the note on III.5–6 in CMW.

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

[6] 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.

[7] 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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