Verse IV.91 Variations
धर्मकायादनुत्पादानिरोधादा भवस्थितेः
dharmakāyādanutpādānirodhādā bhavasthiteḥ
སྐྱེ་མེད་འགག་མེད་ཆོས་སྐུ་ལས། །
སྲིད་པ་ཇི་སྲིད་གནས་བར་དུ། །
སྟོན་པ་ལ་སོགས་མཛད་པ་འཇུག །
Such as displaying [his body], manifests
From the dharmakāya, which lacks arising and ceasing,
For as long as [saṃsāric] existence remains.
- Ainsi, tant que le monde durera,
- [Le Sage] apparaîtra et exercera ses activités
- Sans effort à partir du corps absolu
- Qui ignore la naissance et la cessation.
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Obermiller (1931) [9]
- Thus, without any exertion and effort,
- (Emanating) from the Cosmical Body which neither arises nor disappears anew,
- He manifests as long as the world exists
- The apparition (of his body) and his other acts.
Takasaki (1966) [10]
- Thus, his actions, apparition and the rest,
- Are manifested without any effort,
- From the Absolute Body, which never arises nor disappears,
- As long as the world exists.
Fuchs (2000) [11]
- Effortlessly, like [Indra] he manifests his deeds,
- displaying [physical appearance] and so forth,
- from birthless and deathless dharmakaya
- for as long as samsaric existence may last.
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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.