Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.48
Verse I.48 Variations
स्वभावादिभिरित्येभिः षड्भिरर्थेः समासतः
धातुस्तिसृष्ववस्थासु विदितो नामभिस्त्रिभिः
धातुस्तिसृष्ववस्थासु विदितो नामभिस्त्रिभिः
svabhāvādibhirityebhiḥ ṣaḍbhirartheḥ samāsataḥ
dhātustisṛṣvavasthāsu vidito nāmabhistribhiḥ
dhātustisṛṣvavasthāsu vidito nāmabhistribhiḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ལ་སོགས་པའི་དོན།
།འདི་དྲུག་གིས་ནི་བསྡུས་པ་ཡི།
།ཁམས་ནི་གནས་སྐབས་གསུམ་དག་ཏུ།
།མིང་གསུམ་གྱིས་ནི་བསྟན་པ་ཡིན།
།འདི་དྲུག་གིས་ནི་བསྡུས་པ་ཡི།
།ཁམས་ནི་གནས་སྐབས་གསུམ་དག་ཏུ།
།མིང་གསུམ་གྱིས་ནི་བསྟན་པ་ཡིན།
The basic element that consists of these
Six topics, such as [its] nature,
Is taught through three names
In its three phases.
Six topics, such as [its] nature,
Is taught through three names
In its three phases.
- On ramène l’Élément à son essence
- Et aux cinq autres points
- Pour l’enseigner en fonction
- Des trois états et de leurs trois noms.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- The Germ (of the Buddha) considered
- From the 6 points of view beginning with (its) essence,
- Is, in accordance with its 3 states,
- Designated by 3 different names.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- The Essence [of the Buddha], [hitherto briefly explained]
- By these six subjects, beginning with ' own nature ',
- Is, in accordance with its 3 states,
- Designated by 3 different names.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- The element as contained
- in the six topics of "essence" and so on
- is explained in the light of three phases
- by means of three names.
Textual sources
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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.
- 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.
