Verse I.16

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.16

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Verse I.16 Variations

यावद्‍भाविकता ज्ञेयपर्यन्तगतया धिया
सर्वसत्त्वेषु सर्वज्ञधर्मतास्तित्वदर्शनात्

yāvadbhāvikatā jñeyaparyantagatayā dhiyā
sarvasattveṣu sarvajñadharmatāstitvadarśanāt

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

།ཤེས་བྱ་མཐར་ཐུག་རྟོགས་པའི་བློས།
།ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཆོས་ཉིད་ནི།
།སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཡོད་པར།
།མཐོང་ཕྱིར་ཇི་སྙེད་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད།

Dege, PHI, 110

[The wisdom of] being variety is due to
The intelligence that encompasses the entire range of the knowable
Seeing the existence of the true nature
Of omniscience in all sentient beings.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 346. ^[2]

Avec l’intelligence qui réalise l’état ultime des phénomènes,

[Ils connaissent] la diversité parce qu’ils voient

L’omnisciente essence du réel

Présente en tous les êtres.

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

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།{br}ཤེས་བྱ་མཐར་ཐུག་རྟོགས་པའི་བློས། །ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཆོས་ཉིད་ནི། །སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཡོད་པ། །མཐོང་ཕྱིར་ཇི་སྙེད་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད། །དེ་ལ་ཇི་སྙེད་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་ནི་ཤེས་བྱའི་དངོས་པོ་མཐའ་དག་མཐར་ཐུག་པར་རྟོགས་པ་ལ་འཇིག་རྟེན་ལས་འདས་པའི་ཤེས་{br}རབ་ཀྱིས་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཐ་ན་དུད་འགྲོའི་སྐྱེ་གནས་སུ་གྱུར་པ་རྣམས་ལ་ཡང་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཡོད་པ་ཉིད་མཐོང་བ་ལས་རིག་པར་བྱའོ། །བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་མཐོང་བ་དེ་ཡང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ས་དང་པོ་ཉིད་ལས་སྐྱེ་སྟེ། ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་{br}ཀུན་ཏུ་འགྲོ་བའི་དོན་དུ་རྟོགས་པའི་ཕྱིར་རོ།

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931) ^[3]

Through the Wisdom which penetrates into the background of everything cognizable,

They perceive the Essence of the Omniscient

As it exists in all living beings.

This is their knowledge of the Empirical Reality.

Takasaki (1966) ^[4]

Their extent [of perception] is 'as far as ',

Because they perceive the existence

Of the nature of Omniscience in all living beings,

By the intellect reaching as far as

the limit of the knowable.

Fuchs (2000) ^[5]

Their understanding, which realizes the knowable

as well as [its] ultimate condition, sees

that the state of omniscience is within all beings.

Thus the [noble ones] know completely.

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.
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.

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

[4] 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.

[5] 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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