Verse II.63

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse II.63

Verse II.63 Variations

कायजीवितभोगानां त्यागैः सद्धर्मसंग्रहात्
सर्वसत्त्वहितायादिप्रतिज्ञोत्तरणत्वतः

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

kāyajīvitabhogānāṃ tyāgaiḥ saddharmasaṃgrahāt
sarvasattvahitāyādipratijñottaraṇatvataḥ

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[2]

།ལུས་དང་སྲོག་དང་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྣམས།
།བཏང་ནས་དམ་ཆོས་འཛིན་ཕྱིར་དང་།
།སེམས་ཅན་ཀུན་ལ་ཕན་པའི་ཕྱིར།
།དང་པོར་དམ་བཅས་མཐར་ཕྱིན་ཕྱིར།

Dege, PHI, 129

By virtue of having upheld the genuine dharma
Through giving up body, life, and possessions,
By virtue of fulfilling the initial commitment
In order to benefit all sentient beings and so on,

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 426 ^[3]

Comme, ayant renoncé à son corps, à sa vie

Et à ses biens, il a embrassé le vrai Dharma ;

Comme, pour le bien de tous les êtres, il ira

Jusqu’au terme de son vœu originel ;

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

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།འདིའི་བསྡུས་པའི་དོན་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་དྲུག་གིས་རིག་པར་བྱ་སྟེ། ལུས་དང་སྲོག་དང་འོངས་སྤྱོད་རྣམས། །བཏང་ནས་དམ་ཆོས་འཛིན་ཕྱིར་དང་། །སེམས་ཅན་ཀུན་ལ་ཕན་པའི་ཕྱིར། །དང་པོའི་དམ་བཅས་མཐར་འབྱིན་ཕྱིར། །སངས་རྒྱས་ཉིད་ནི་གཙང་བ་དང་། །དག་པའི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་རབ་འཇུག་ཕྱིར། །རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་རྐང་པ་སྟོན་པ་ནི། །དེ་ཡིས་གནས་པར་སྤྱོད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །མཁྱེན་པས་འཁོར་དང་མྱ་ངན་འདའ། །གཉིས་སུ་འཛིན་པས་གྲོལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །རྟག་ཏུ་བསམ་ཡས་ཏིང་འཛིན་གྱི། །བདེ་བ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་ལྡན་ཕྱིར། །འཇིག་རྟེན་ནི་སྤྱོད་པ་ན། འཇིག་རྟེན་ཆོས་ཀྱིས་གོས་མེད་ཕྱིར། །འཆི་མེད་ཞི་བའི་གནས་ཐོབ་པ། །འཆི་བདུད་རྒྱུ་བ་མེད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །འདུས་མ་བྱས་པའི་རང་བཞིན་གྱི། །ཐུབ་པ་གདོད་ནས་རབ་ཞིའི་ཕྱིར། །རྟག་པ་སྐྱབས་མེད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ནི། །སྐྱབས་ལ་སོགས་པ་འཐད་ཕྱིར་རོ། །དང་པོ་ཡི་ནི་རྒྱུ་བདུན་ནི། །གཟུགས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཡི་རྟག་

ཉིད་དེ། །ཕྱི་མ་གསུམ་གྱིས་སྟོང་པ་ན། །ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཡི་རྟག་པ་ཉིད།

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931) ^[9]

Giving up his body, his life and his property,

He has preserved the Highest of Doctrines;

He administers help to all living beings,

And fully accomplishes his previous vows.

Takasaki (1966) ^[10]

Casting off his body, life and property,

He has preserved the Highest doctrine;

For the benefits of all living beings,

He fulfills his first vow.

Fuchs (2000) ^[11]

Having offered bodies, lives, and goods

they [purely] uphold the sacred Dharma.

In order to benefit all sentient beings

they fulfill their vow as initially taken.

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Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
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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.
As will be seen in the text below, in verses II.63–68, two lines each correspond to the ten reasons in II.62 for buddhahood’s being permanent, with "protector of the world"in II.62d (VT fol. 14v6: lokanāthatvāt) being considered the tenth reason.
I follow MB °pādapraṇetuś ca against J pādaprakāśāc ca.
The phrase in "[ ]" is found in C.
I follow VT (fol. 14v6) °śaraṇādyutpattitaḥ against MB and J °śaraṇābhyupapattitaḥ (confirmed by DP skyabs la sogs pa ’thad phyir ro). VT furthermore glosses "refuge" as "dharmakāya, sambhogakāya, nirmāṇakāya."
. I follow MB nityatāśaraṇānāṃ (confirmed by VT, fol. 14v6) against J nityam aśaraṇānāṃ.
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.

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[3] 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.

[4] As will be seen in the text below, in verses II.63–68, two lines each correspond to the ten reasons in II.62 for buddhahood’s being permanent, with "protector of the world"in II.62d (VT fol. 14v6: lokanāthatvāt) being considered the tenth reason.

[5] I follow MB °pādapraṇetuś ca against J pādaprakāśāc ca.

[6] The phrase in "[ ]" is found in C.

[7] I follow VT (fol. 14v6) °śaraṇādyutpattitaḥ against MB and J °śaraṇābhyupapattitaḥ (confirmed by DP skyabs la sogs pa ’thad phyir ro). VT furthermore glosses "refuge" as "dharmakāya, sambhogakāya, nirmāṇakāya."

[8] . I follow MB nityatāśaraṇānāṃ (confirmed by VT, fol. 14v6) against J nityam aśaraṇānāṃ.

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

[10] 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.

[11] 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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