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 13.7 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 13.7]
The secret seminal point is the expanse
In which the 尘补峁囜笉补濒补蝉 (emerge). [7][Tibetan]
gsang-ba'i thig-le dkyil-'khor dbyings / [7]
Commentary:
[iii. The third, concerning the stage of inner radiance where these are without duality, (comments on Ch. 13.7):]
Within the doctrinal wheel of the heart-centre and so forth, there is the amazing secret seminal point (gsang-ba'i thig-le) which abides as the primordial and spontaneous nature of Buddha-body and pristine cosnition. When it is experientially cultivated through the conditions or esoteric instructions of the guru, it is the expanse in which (dbyings) all the 尘补峁囜笉补濒补蝉 (dkyil-'khor) of the inexhaustible wheels of adornment, the buddha-body, speech, and mind, emerge.
This aspect appears to have been misunderstood by the ordinary scholars of the Magical Net of the past because in this tantra it is extremely hidden and concealed.[1]
[Secondly, there is the extensive exegesis (449.6-477.3), which is also threefold: the outer creation stage, the inner perfection stage, and the secret stage of inner radiance.]
[Outer Creation Stage (450.1-453.1) (comments on Ch. 13.8):]
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Footnotes and references:
[1]:
This particular verse is seen as the basis for kLong-chen Rab'-byams-pa'd great exegesis in phyogs-bcu mun-sel on the thod-real practices of the rdzogs-pa chen-po, pp. 1022-1044. Cf. its more exoteric treatment in Lo-chen Dharma艣r墨, gsang-bdag dgongs-rgyan, p. 331, which is representative of the bka'-ma tradition.