Guhyagarbha Tantra (with Commentary)
by Gyurme Dorje | 1987 | 304,894 words
The English translation of the Guhyagarbha Tantra, including Longchenpa's commentary from the 14th century. The whole work is presented as a critical investigation into the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, of which the Guhyagarbhatantra is it's principle text. It contains twenty-two chapters teaching the essence and practice of Mahayoga, which s...
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Text 2.18 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 2.18]
... This completes the second chapter from the Secret Nucleus Definitive With Respect To The Real, entitled the generation of ultimate and relative enlightened mind as pristine cognition. [18]
[Tibetan]
gsang-ba'i snying-po de-kho-na-nyid nges-pa-las / don-dam-pa-dang / kun-rdzob-kyi byang-chub-sems ye-shes-su bskyed-pa'i le'u-ste gnyis-pa'o / [18]
Commentary:
[The conclusion]
With these words (-ces), the 罢补迟丑腻驳补迟补 himself (de-bzhin gshegs-pa nyid) who is of self-manifesting purity purposefully conversed (ched-du gleng-ngo) with the 罢补迟丑腻驳补迟补 himself (de-bzhin gshegs-pa nyis-la).[1] This completes (-'o) the exegesis of the second chapter (le'u ste gnyis-pa) from (las) the Secret Nucleus (gsang-ba'i snying-po) of all buddhas Definitive With Respect To The Real (de-kho-na-nyid nges-pa), entitled (-'i) the generation of (bskyed-pa) both the ultimate (don-dam-pa) (enlightened mind) of 苍颈谤惫腻峁嘺 which is pure and free from all conceptual elaboration and (dang) the relative enlightened mind (kun-rdzob-kyis byang-chub sems) of 蝉补峁僺腻谤补 as (fill) the pristine cognition (ye-shes-su) of sameness because Buddha-hood has been attained from the beginning. These (respectively) reveal the indivisible abiding nature and the reason why naturally present spirituality emanates from the expanse for the sake of living beings who have not realised (that reality).[2]
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The ultimate enlightened mind (param膩rthabodhicitta) refers to the indivisibility of Samantabhadra and 厂补尘补苍迟补产丑补诲谤墨, while the relative enlightened mind (蝉补峁僾峁泃迟颈产辞诲丑颈肠颈迟迟补) refers to the generation of spirituality for the sake of beings suffering in 蝉补峁僺腻谤补.