Verse I.146 Variations
धातोस्तथागतेनैव सादृश्यमुपपपादितम्
dhātostathāgatenaiva sādṛśyamupapapāditam
།འདི་ལ་དཔེ་ནི་མི་དམིགས་པས།
།དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཉིད་དང་ཁམས།
།འདྲ་བ་ཉིད་དུ་བསྟན་པ་ཡིན།
No example for it can be observed in the world.
Therefore, the basic element is shown
To resemble the Tathāgata.
- Bien au-delà du monde,
- Rien ne lui ressemble dans le monde.
- Voilà montrée la similitude
- De l’Élément et du Tathāgata.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- (The Cosmical Body) is of unworldly nature,
- And in this world there is absolutely nothing
- With which it can be compared.
- Therefore it can be shown only in its similarity
- With the (corporeal form of) the Buddha himself.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Being supermundane, nothing can be given
- As an example for the Essence, in this world;
- Therefore, it is shown in its similarity
- To the [apparitional form of the] Buddha himself.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- [The dharmakaya] being beyond the worldly,
- no example for it can be found in the world.
- Therefore the element and the Tathagata
- are explained as being [slightly] similar.
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- 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.
- 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.