Verse V.6 Variations
च्छीलं स्वर्गं भावना क्लेशहानिम्
प्रज्ञा क्लेशज्ञेयसर्वप्रहाणं
सातः श्रेष्ठा हेतुरस्याः श्रवोऽयम्
cchīlaṃ svargaṃ bhāvanā kleśahānim
prajñā kleśajñeyasarvaprahāṇaṃ
sātaḥ śreṣṭhā heturasyāḥ śravo'yam
ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་མཐོ་རིས་བསྒོམས་པས་ཉོན་མོངས་སྤོང་བྱེད་ལ། །
ཤེས་རབ་ཉོན་མོངས་ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་སྤོང་དེ་ཡི་ཕྱིར། །
འདི་མཆོག་ཉིད་དེ་དེ་ཡི་རྒྱུ་ནི་འདི་ཐོས་ཡིན། །
Discipline [just leads to] heaven, and meditation [just] relinquishes the afflictions,
While prajñā eliminates all afflictive and cognitive [obscurations],
It is supreme, and its cause is to study this [dharma].
- La générosité ne fait qu’assurer les richesses matérielles ;
- La discipline ne conduit qu’à une renaissance heureuse ;
- Et la méditation ne peut que repousser les affections
- La connaissance les surpasse toutes parce qu’elle élimine
- les voiles émotionnel et cognitif, et qu’elle a pour cause
- la présente étude.
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Obermiller (1931) [10]
- Charity, it secures objects of worldly enjoyment,
- Morality leads to blissful existence,
- And deep meditation is conducive to the removal or defilement;
- But Highest Wisdom completely removes all defilement and ignorance,
- Therefore it is superior (to all other virtues),
- And its source is the study (of the Doctrine).
Takasaki (1966) [11]
- Charity brings people only to [worldly] enjoyment,
- Morality leads people to the blissful world,
- And meditation is conducive to the removal of Defilements,
- But the Transcendental Intellect can remove
- All [the obscurations of] defilements and ignorance.
- Therefore, Intellect is the supreme one [of all virtues]
- And its very source is the study of this Doctrine.
Fuchs (2000) [12]
- Why [is it so beneficial]? Generosity only yields wealth,
- discipline leads to the higher states of existence, and meditation removes affliction.
- Discriminative wisdom fully abandons all afflictions and [hindrances to] knowledge.
- It is therefore supreme, and its cause is studying these.
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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.
- I follow VT (fol. 16v7) caturṣu sthāneṣv (supported by DP and C) instead of just sthāneṣv. These four points are vajra points 4 through 7—the tathāgata heart, awakening, its qualities, and its activity.
- DP "those with pure minds" (dagga pa’i seems).
- Instead of °buddhi, DP read "buddha qualities" (snags rgyas yon tan) in the next line.
- VT (fol. 16v7) glosses "this" as "the discussion of the doctrine that explicitly speaks of the buddha element and so on."
- "The meditative states of the gods"refers to the four dhyānas and the four formless absorptions, while the four brahmāvihāras are the four immeasurables of love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity that lead to rebirth as the god Mahābrahmā.
- With Schmithausen, I follow MB and J saṃbodhyupāyācyutaḥ (supported by DP rdzogs pa’i byang chub ’pho med thabs bsgoms la) against MA saṃbodhyupāyāc cyutaḥ, whose meaning is also found in C.
- 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.