Verse III.5

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse III.5

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स्थानास्थाने विपाके च कर्मणामिन्द्रियेषु च
धातुष्वप्यधिमुक्तौ च मार्गे सर्वत्रगामिनि

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

sthānāsthāne vipāke ca karmaṇāmindriyeṣu ca
dhātuṣvapyadhimuktau ca mārge sarvatragāmini

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

གནས་དང་གནས་མིན་ལས་རྣམས་ཀྱི། །
རྣམ་སྨིན་དང་ནི་དབང་པོ་དང་། །
ཁམས་རྣམས་དང་ནི་མོས་པ་དང་། །
ཀུན་འགྲོའི་ལམ་དང་བསམ་གཏན་སོགས། །

Dege, PHI, 130

What is the case and what is not the case,
Maturation of karmas, faculties,
Constitutions, inclinations,
The path that leads everywhere,

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 430 ^[3]

Le correct et l’incorrect,

La rétribution des actes, les facultés,

Les tempéraments, les aspirations,

Les voies de toutes les destinées, les concentrations

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

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།སྟོབས་རྣམས་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། གནས་དང་གནས་མིན་ལས་རྣམས་ཀྱི། །རྣམ་སྨིན་དང་ནི་དབང་པོ་དང་། །ཁམས་རྣམས་དང་ནི་མོས་པ་དང་། །ཀུན་འགྲོའི་ལམ་དང་བསམ་གཏན་སོགས། །ཉོན་མོངས་དྲི་མ་མེད་པ་དང་། །{br}གནས་ནི་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པ་དང་། །ལྷ་ཡི་མིག་དང་ཞི་བ་དག །མཁྱེན་པའི་སྟོབས་ནི་རྣམ་པ་བཅུ།

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931) ^[5]

These are the 10 Powers of Cognition一

Of the possible and the impossible,

Of the fruit of one’s former deeds, and of the faculties,

Of the component elements (of the Universe),

And of the inclinations (of the converts),

Of all the different paths, of that which is defiling and purifying

Takasaki (1966) ^[6]

The knowledge of the proper and improper place,

Of the result of former actions, and of the faculties,

Of the component elements and of the faith,

Of the path which leads to everywhere,

Fuchs (2000) ^[7]

Knowing what is worthwhile and worthless,

knowing the ripening product of all action,

knowing faculties, temperaments, and wishes,

knowing the path reaching the entire range,

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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.
VT (fol. 15v2–3) glosses "what is the case" as "[karmic] causes"; "maturation of karmas," as "the maturation of these karmic [causes]"; "faculties," as the five mental faculties "such as confidence"; "constitutions," as "having the nature of desire and so on"; "inclinations," as "the inclinations of those who have such natures"; "the path that leads everywhere," as "going to hell due to hateful behavior and to heaven, due to virtuous behavior"; "[afflicted] dhyānas," as "obscurations of dhyāna"; and "peace," as "the termination of contamination." For the individual causes of the ten powers according to the Ratnadārikāsūtra, see the note on III.5–6 in CMW.
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] VT (fol. 15v2–3) glosses "what is the case" as "[karmic] causes"; "maturation of karmas," as "the maturation of these karmic [causes]"; "faculties," as the five mental faculties "such as confidence"; "constitutions," as "having the nature of desire and so on"; "inclinations," as "the inclinations of those who have such natures"; "the path that leads everywhere," as "going to hell due to hateful behavior and to heaven, due to virtuous behavior"; "[afflicted] dhyānas," as "obscurations of dhyāna"; and "peace," as "the termination of contamination." For the individual causes of the ten powers according to the Ratnadārikāsūtra, see the note on III.5–6 in CMW.

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

[6] 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.

[7] 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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