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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...

Text 3.21 (Commentary)

[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 3.21]

Then this secret description of these non-dual ṇḍ of the ղٳ岵ٲ came forth from the Indestructible Buddha-body, speech, mind, attributes and activities. [21] ...

[Tibetan]

de-nas de-bzhin gshegs-pa gnyis-su med-pa'i dkyil-'khor de-dag-nyid-kyi gsang-ba 'di-nyid / sku-dang gsung-dang thugs-dang yon-tan 'phrin-las rdo-rje-las phyung-ngo / [21]

Commentary:

Once the nature of all doctrines had been described, then (de-nas) there emerged this ('di) secret description (gsang-ba-nyid) of these (de-dag-nyid-kyi) ṇḍ (dkyil-'khor) of the ղٳ岵ٲ (de-bzhin gshegs-pa), where skillful means and discriminative awareness are non-dual (gnyis-su med-pa'i). revealing the self-manifest nature of mind and pristine cognition. It came forth (phyung-ngo) as follows from the indestructible (rdo-rje-las) buddha-body, speech, mind, attributes and activities (sku-dang gsung-dang thugs yon-tan 'phrin-las).

The latter (the actual revelation) has two sections: It reveals the bewildering appearances of sentient beings to be the selfmanifest nature of the mind; and it reveals the appearances of the Buddha-fields to be the self-manifest nature of pristine cognition.

[The first (comments on Ch. 3.22):]

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