Verse I.53 Variations
तथैवासंस्कृते धाताविन्द्रियाणां व्ययोदयः
tathaivāsaṃskṛte dhātāvindriyāṇāṃ vyayodayaḥ
།ནམ་མཁའ་ལ་ནི་སྐྱེ་ཞིང་འཇིག
།དེ་བཞིན་འདུས་མ་བྱས་དབྱིངས་ལ།
།དབང་པོ་རྣམས་ནི་སྐྱེ་ཞིང་འཇིག
Are born and perish in space,
So the faculties arise and perish
In the unconditioned basic element.
- De même que tous les mondes
- Naissent et meurent dans l’espace,
- De même les facultés des sens naissent
- Et meurent dans l’immensité inconditionnée.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Just as, in space, the worlds and all their elements
- Become originated and are destroyed,
- In the same way, in the Eternal Substance,
- The forces of Phenomenal Life appear and disappear.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Just as the worlds have everywhere
- Their origination and destruction in space;
- Similarly, on the basis of the Innate Essence,
- The sense-organs appear and disappear.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- Just as at all times worlds arise
- and disintegrate in space,
- the senses arise and disintegrate
- in the uncreated expanse.
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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.