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 4.28 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 4.28]
At these words, all the 罢补迟丑腻驳补迟补蝉 were transformed into the wheel of syllables. This completes the fourth chapter from the Secret Nucleus Definitive With Respect To The Real, entitled the Cyclical Array of the Garland of Syllables. [28]
[Tibetan]
鈥攝hes brjod-pas / de-bzhin gshegs-pa thams-cad yi-ge'i 'khor-lor gyur-to / gsang-ba'i snying-po de-kho-na-nyid nges-pa-las yi-ge 'phreng-ba'i 'khor-lo bkod-pa'i le'u-ste bzhi-pa'o / [28]
Commentary:
[Synopsis of the Chapter (206.2-207.2)]
[The third part (of the interlinear commentary; see p. 557) is the synopsis or conclusion of the chapter (which comments on Ch. 4.28):]
All things are thus primordial Buddha-hood in the cloud-mass of syllables. At these words (zhes brjod-pas), all the (thams-cad) self-manifesting 罢补迟丑腻驳补迟补蝉 (de-bzhin gshegs-pa) of the 尘补峁囜笉补濒补 of the five enlightened families were transformed (gyur-to) in a single savour into the expanse where they are primordially undifferentiated from the reality of the wheel of syllables, naturally pure in essence, and where they are without conjunction or disjunction with reference to the non-dual essence.
This is simply a movement in pursuit of their natural expression, free from conceptual elaboration, and apart from that no transformation or extraneous emanation is required.
It says accordingly in the chapter on the geometric rites from the Purification of All Evil Destinies (T. 483):[1]
All different doctrines are pursued.
And all doctrines, here and there, are pursued.
One who pursues all doctrines
Follows that which is free from extremes.
Similarly, when the 尘补峁囜笉补濒补 is said to radiate, it does not extraneously deviate from the self-manifesting 尘补峁囜笉补濒补. One should know that (radiation) to be Identical to reality. There are some who say that it does appear to change in the perception of those who require training. While one would not contradict that such appearances accord with the Intelligence of those present when (the buddhas) array the lamp (of the teaching) in the world and so forth, in this context (of the self-manifesting 尘补峁囜笉补濒补) there is no such connection because this 尘补峁囜笉补濒补 of the field of the spontaneous Bounteous Array is the reality which as never changes.[2]
This completes (-'o) and establishes the exegesis of the fourth chapter (le'u ste bzhi-pa) from (las) the primordial Secret Nucleus Definitive With Respect to The Real (gsang-ba'i snying-po de-kho-na-nyid nges-na), the reality of the garland of syllables, entitled the Cyclical Array of the (-'i 'khor-lo bkod-pa) great Garland ('phreng-ba) of spontaneously present Syllables (yi-ge).
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
See T. Skorupski, The Sarvadurgatipari艣odhanatantra.
[2]:
The present description of the wheel of syllables, is held by the author to indicate the continuum of the ground, and is thus distinguished from their utilisation of the path, as described below, pp. 1006-1019.