Verse III.27 Variations
वेदितव्या यथासंख्यं रत्नसूत्रानुसारतः
veditavyā yathāsaṃkhyaṃ ratnasūtrānusārataḥ
འདི་དག་སོ་སོར་རྒྱུ་བཅས་ཏེ། །
གོ་རིམས་ཇི་བཞིན་རིན་ཆེན་གྱི། །
མདོ་ཡི་རྗེས་འབྲང་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །
Each one together with their causes,
Are to be understood in due order
Through following the Ratna[dārikā]sūtra.
- Il faut savoir que ces soixante-quatre qualités,
- Ainsi que les causes de chacune,
- Apparaissent ici dans le même ordre
- Que dans le Soûtra de Ratnadārikā.
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Obermiller (1931) [7]
- These 64 distinctive features
- Each taken separately with their causes
- Are in gradual order to be known
- From the Ratna-dārikā-sūtra.
Takasaki (1966) [8]
- These 64 properties are to be understood,
- Along with their causes for attainment,
- One after the other, according to [the same] order,
- Through the investigation of the Ratna-sūtra.
Fuchs (2000) [9]
- These sixty-four qualities
- each combined with its cause
- should be known in their order
- to follow the Ratnadarikasutra.
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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.
- Schmithausen emends MA/MB ekadhyabhisaṃkṣipya to ekadhyam abhisaṃkṣipya (J ekenābhisaṃkṣipya).
- I follow MB vistaravibhāganirdeśo against J vistaravibhāge nirdeśo and also Schmithausen’s emendation of J °guṇānām api yathānupūrvyā to °guṇānām anayaivānupūrvyā (as supported by DP go rim ’di nyid kris).
- For RYC’s quotes from the Ratnadārikāsūtra that list the individual causes of these sixty-four qualities, see the notes on the corresponding verses 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.