Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.132
Verse I.132 Variations
नव रागादयः क्लेशाः संक्षेपेण यथाक्रमम्
नवभिः पद्मकोशादिदृष्टान्तैः संप्रकाशिताः
नवभिः पद्मकोशादिदृष्टान्तैः संप्रकाशिताः
nava rāgādayaḥ kleśāḥ saṃkṣepeṇa yathākramam
navabhiḥ padmakośādidṛṣṭāntaiḥ saṃprakāśitāḥ
navabhiḥ padmakośādidṛṣṭāntaiḥ saṃprakāśitāḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།ཆགས་སོགས་དྲི་མ་དགུ་པོ་འདི།
།མདོར་བསྡུས་ནས་ནི་གོ་རིམས་བཞིན།
།པདྨའི་སྦུབས་ལ་སོགས་པ་ཡི།
།དཔེ་དགུ་དག་གིས་ཡང་དག་བསྟན།
།མདོར་བསྡུས་ནས་ནི་གོ་རིམས་བཞིན།
།པདྨའི་སྦུབས་ལ་སོགས་པ་ཡི།
།དཔེ་དགུ་དག་གིས་ཡང་དག་བསྟན།
Nine afflictions such as desire,
In brief and in due order,
Are elucidated by the nine examples
Of the sheath of a lotus and so on.
In brief and in due order,
Are elucidated by the nine examples
Of the sheath of a lotus and so on.
是名略說九 種煩惱次第萎華等九種譬喻我已廣說應 知
(This verse is not marked as such in the Chinese translation.)
(This verse is not marked as such in the Chinese translation.)
- L’attachement et les huit autres souillures
- Sont disposés ci-dessus de façon à correspondre,
- Dans le même ordre, au lotus fané
- Et aux huit autres comparaisons.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
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Obermiller (1931) [5]
- These 9 forms of defilement, Passion and the rest,
- Being taken in short, respectively,
- Are illustrated by 9 examples,一
- That of the coverings of a lotus and the rest.
Takasaki (1966) [6]
- Nine Defilements, beginning with Desire,
- Being taken in short, respectively,
- Are illustrated by 9 examples,
- That of the sheath of a lotus flower and others.
Fuchs (2000) [7]
- But when it is comprised concisely,
- the nine defilements of desire and the other afflictions
- are well explained in the given order by the nine similes
- of the shroud of the lotus and the subsequent examples.
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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.
- Note that I.132 is preceded solely by this lone word "these" and that lines I.132cd correspond literally to lines I.131ab. This is why Johnston suggested that I.132 is not an actual verse, but just a part of the commentary on I.131ab, while the following paragraph explains I.131cd.
- DP have these two sentences in reverse order.
- 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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