Theos-Talk Archives (September 2009 Message tt00051)

Dear friends,

Some translations in english of the Ratnagotravibhaga:

Uttaratantra or Ratnagotravibhaga, translated from the Tibetan by E. Obermiller - Canon Publications - Talent, Oregon - ISBN 0-88181-001-0.

The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra by Maitreya, commentary by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye , and explanations by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca , NY - ISBN 1-55939-128-6

and one translation in french : 

Ratnagotravibhaga Mahayanottaratantrasastra, translated from sanskrit and tibetan by Francois Chenique - Editions DERVY - Paris ISBN 2-84454-124-0

Jacques

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Augoeides-222@... wrote:
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> Morten, 
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> The Mahayanottaratantrashastra, ratnagotravibhanga, Tib. theg pa chen po rgyud bla mai bstan (The Supreme Continuum of The Mahayana) as one of the 5 works of the translation of Asanga's Translation of the Maitreya Texts. 
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> Here are the names of the other four: 
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> 1) Ornament for Clear Realization - Abhisamalankara-Tib. mngon par rtogs pa'i i rigyan 
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> 2) Ornament for the Mahayana Sutras - Mahayanasutralankara - Tib. theg pa chen po i mdo sde i rgyan 
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> 3) Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being (Nature of Phenomena) - Dharmadharmata Vibhanga - Tib. chos dang chos nyid rnam par byed pa 
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> 4) Distinguishing the Middle and the Extremes - Madhyanta Vibhanga - Tib dbus dang mtha rnam par byed pa 
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> 5) also mentioned or associated with the stream ofthe above: 
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> 6) Uttaratantra (Subtle Essense) 
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> 7) Akasa Garbha (Womb of Space) the Space Store Sutra 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Morten Nymann Olesen" <global-theosophy@...> 
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 10:07:55 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
> Subject: Theos-World Ratna-gotra-vibhaga and H. P. Blavatsky 
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> Dear friends 
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> My views are: 
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> The following by D. Reigle on H. P. Blavatsky's "The Secret Doctrine" might be worth considering. I will perhaps be safe to say, that a part of the Secret Doctrine was based on the below "Ratna-gotra-vibhaga" (i.e. the Secret Book of "Maytreya Buddha"!? ) 
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> David Reigle: 
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> Blavatsky in a letter to A. P. Sinnett specifically links The Secret Doctrine she was then writing to a secret book of Maitreya: 
> I have finished an enormous Introductory Chapter, or Preamble, Prologue, call it what you will; just to show the reader that the text as it goes, every Section beginning with a page of translation from the Book of Dzyan and the Secret Book of "Maytreya Buddha" Champai chhos Nga (in prose, not the five books in verse known, which are a blind) are no fiction. 
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> [The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett, p. 195.] 
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> Given their doctrinal similarity, it is likely that the Ratna-gotra-vibhaga, or more specifically its secret original, is the book of Maitreya that Blavatsky refers to here. The known Ratna-gotra-vibhaga, though it may be a "blind," still apparently represents the same doctrinal standpoint as that of The Secret Doctrine . 
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> http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/reigle01.html 
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> A question: 
> Has anyone read "Ratna-gotra-vibhaga" and what translation into english, if any at all, would be recommend to the students of theosophy? 
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> M. Sufilight 
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