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 15.8 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 15.8]
... In order that the ղٳ岵ٲ, the Magical Net which is an indestructible array of greatness, might display the charisma of great pride which disciplines the lord of the three levels of existence within the ten directions of the six world-systems, this identity of the indestructible body, speech, and mind of all the ղٳ岵ٲs, the Transcendent Lord and Great Joyous One, became absorbed in the kingly contemplation of the Magical Net, which emanates as the great cloud of the ṇḍ of kingly wrathful deities. [8] ...
[Tibetan]
de-nas de-bzhin gshegs-pa che-ba'i rdo-rje bkod-pa sgyu-'phrul dra-ba / 'jig-rten drug-gi phyogs-bcu'i srid-pa gsum-gyi bdag-po 'dul-ba'i nga-rgyal chen-po'i gzi-brjid bstan-pa'i phyir / de-bzhin gshegs-pa thams-cad-kyi sku-gsung-thugs / rdo-rje'i bdag-po / bcom-ldan-'das dgyes-pa chen-po khro-bo'i rgyal-po'i dkyil-'khor-gyi sprin-chen-po rnam-par 'phro-pa'i / sgyu-'phrul drva-ba'i rgyal-po'i ting-nge-'dzin-la snyoms-par zhugs-te / [8]
Commentary:
[The second, the detailed exegesis of that subjugation, has three sections, namely, the overwhelming of the proud spirit through the four miracles, the eradication of the proud spirit through the enlightened activity of wrath, and the injunction imparted to him after being taken into the fold through spirituality.]
[Overwhelming of the Proud Spirit Through the Four Miracles (512.4-516.2):]
[This has two subdivisions, of which (the former) concerns the meditative absorption in contemplation which is the causal basis. (It comments on Ch. 15.8):]
Once the wrathful deities of deeds who are to be trained had appeared, then (de-nas) in order to reveal the wrathful deities of pristine cognition who grant instruction, the body of reality of the ղٳ岵ٲ (de-bzhin gshegs-pa) emerged in the body of perfect rapture of the wrathful deities, manifesting in and of itself from the sky-like disposition of the Magical Net (sgyu-'phrul dra-ba), which is (-'i) without duality of appearance and emptiness, and a natural array (bkod-pa) of non-dual indestructible greatness (che-ba'i rdo-rje), without partiality or bias.
The reason (for this emergence) is in order that he might display the charisma (gzi-brjid bstan-pa'i phyir) of great pride (nga-rgyal chen-po'i) which overwhelms all proud beings including those who have hatred, and which disciplines ('dul-ba'i) proud Rudra, the lord of the three levels of existence (srid-gsum-gyi bdag-po) in the field of the ten directions of the six world-systems ('jig-rten drug-gi phyogs-bcu'i).[1]
Thus Samantabhadra, the great identity of the indestructible body, speech and mind of all the ղٳ岵ٲs (de-bzhin gshegs-pa thams-cad-kyi sku-gsung-thugs rdo-rje'i bdag-po), the Transcendent Lord (bcom-ldan 'das) and Great Joyous One (dgyes-pa chen-pos) of skillful means which instructs those to be trained. became absorbed in the (-la snyoms-par zhugs-te) contemplation (ting-nge-'dzin) of the kingly (rgyal-po'i) self-manifesting pristine cognition of the Magical Net (sgyu-'phrul dra-ba'i) which emanates as the great cloud of the ṇḍ of (-'i dkyil-'khor-gyi sprin-chen-po rnam-par 'phro-ba'i) Herukas, the kingly (rgyal-po) ones among the wrathful deities (khro-bo'i).
[The latter concerns the nature of his miraculous emanation from within that (disposition).]
[It has four sections, the first of which concerns the expanse from which this emanation occured. (It comments on Ch. 15.9):]
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Footnotes and references:
[1]:
The "three levels of existence" (srid-pa gsum) refer to aerial, terrestrial and subterranean realms.