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 8.25 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 8.25]
In the unthinkable ten directions and four times
The purposes of training are differently revealed. [25] ...[Tibetan]
phyogs-bcu dus-bzhi bsam-yas-su /
'dul-ba'i don-rnams so-sor ston / [25]
Commentary:
[iii. The third concerns actions on behalf of living beings through the conclusive seals. It has five parts, the first of which reveals their diversity for the sake of those to be trained. (It comments on Ch. 8.25):]
When conclusive Buddha-hood has been attained through meditation in that manner during the circumstances of the path, in the unthinkable (bsam-yas-su) Buddha-fields subsumed within the ten directions and four times (phyogs-bcu dus-bzhi) the purposes of (-'i don-rnams) the seals which bring about the training ('dul-ba) of Inestimable trainees are differently revealed (so-sor ston) by the buddha-body, acting on behalf of living beings in the form of buddha, universal monarch, and so forth, corresponding to the perception of the different sentient beings.
[The second concerns the appearances which accord with this teaching. (It comments on Ch. 8.26):]
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