Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.94
Verse I.94 Variations
अतोऽनागम्य बुद्धत्वं निर्वाणं नाधिगम्यते
न हि शक्यः प्रभारश्मी निर्वृज्य प्रेक्षितुं रविः
न हि शक्यः प्रभारश्मी निर्वृज्य प्रेक्षितुं रविः
ato'nāgamya buddhatvaṃ nirvāṇaṃ nādhigamyate
na hi śakyaḥ prabhāraśmī nirvṛjya prekṣituṃ raviḥ
na hi śakyaḥ prabhāraśmī nirvṛjya prekṣituṃ raviḥ
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
།དེས་ན་སངས་རྒྱས་མ་ཐོབ་པར།
།མྱ་ངན་འདས་པ་མི་ཐོབ་སྟེ།
།འོད་དང་འོད་ཟེར་སྤངས་ནས་ནི།
།ཉི་མ་ལྟ་བར་མི་ནུས་བཞིན།
།མྱ་ངན་འདས་པ་མི་ཐོབ་སྟེ།
།འོད་དང་འོད་ཟེར་སྤངས་ནས་ནི།
།ཉི་མ་ལྟ་བར་མི་ནུས་བཞིན།
Therefore, without attaining buddhahood,
Nirvāṇa is not attained,
Just as it is impossible to see the sun
After its light and its rays are removed.
Nirvāṇa is not attained,
Just as it is impossible to see the sun
After its light and its rays are removed.
- Par conséquent, on n’atteint pas le nirvāṇa
- Sans atteindre la bouddhéité,
- De même qu’on ne peut voir le soleil
- Sans sa lumière et ses rayons.
Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.
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Obermiller (1931) [3]
- Therefore, without the attainment of Buddhahood,
- The (ultimate) Nirvāṇa cannot be reached,
- Just as it is impossible to see the sun
- Separated from its light and rays.
Takasaki (1966) [4]
- Therefore, without the acquisition of Buddhahood,
- There is no attainment of Nirvāṇa,
- Just as it is impossible to see the sun,
- Avoiding its light and rays.
Fuchs (2000) [5]
- One will therefore not attain nirvana
- without attaining the state of buddhahood.
- Just as one could not see the sun
- if one were to eliminate its light and its rays.
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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.
