Verse IV.90 Variations
मुनिर्नोदेति न व्येति शक्रवद्धर्मकायतः
munirnodeti na vyeti śakravaddharmakāyataḥ
སངས་རྒྱས་གཟུགས་ནི་སྐྱེ་དང་འཇིག །
བརྒྱ་བྱིན་བཞིན་དུ་ཐུབ་པ་ནི། །
ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཡི་སྐྱེ་འཇིག་མེད། །
The reflection of the Buddha arises and disappears,
But in terms of the dharmakāya, just like Śakra,
The sage neither arises nor disappears.
- La vertu apparaissant et disparaissant,
- La forme des bouddhas apparaît et disparaît.
- Comme Indra, le corps absolu du Sage
- N’apparaît ni ne disparaît.
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Obermiller (1931) [9]
- In accordance with the origination and bereavement of virtue
- The form of the Buddha appears and disappears;
- But, similar to Indra, the Lord
- In his Cosmical Body neither becomes born, nor does he vanish.
Takasaki (1966) [10]
- Owing to the appearance and disappearance of purity,
- The forms of the Buddha appear and disappear;
- But, in his Body of the Absolute that is like Indra,
- The Lord does never appear nor disappear.
Fuchs (2000) [11]
- Since virtue arises and ceases,
- the form of a buddha arises and ceases.
- Like Indra, the Muni who is dharmakaya
- is free from arising and ceasing.
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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.
- DP take darśana as "seeing."
- I follow DP mi bzlog pa. VT (fol. 16v6) glosses asaṃhāryā as ātyantikī, which can mean "continual," "uninterrupted," "infinite," and "total."
- I follow Schmithausen’s emendation nānarthabījamuk (or °bījahṛt; supported by DP don med pa’i / sa bon spong min) of MA nānarthabījamut and MB nāna(?)rthabījavat against J no sārthabījavat.
- I follow MA, which contains the second negation na tat against J ca tat.
- I follow MA °saṃpadāṃ against J °saṃpadam.
- 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.