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...
Chapter 17 - Revelation of the Ma峁囜笉ala of Wrathful Deities
Then the Transcendent Lord, the Great Joyous One, uttered this following meaningful expression in order to reveal the 尘补峁囜笉补濒补 of these (wrathful deities). [1]
The blazing 尘补峁囜笉补濒补 with its four spokes
Is adorned with four corners,
Endowed with quadrangular shape and four embrasured gates.
It is beautified by two blazing courtyards, [2]
Resplendent with skulls, snakes,
Diverse things, and sunlight,
And shimmering with many flaming bursts. [3](Supported) by the talons of bull,
Buffalo, leopard, tiger, and fierce bear,
The mighty lords beginning with 惭补丑腻诲别惫补 are in union. [4]The terrifying Buddha-bodies are dark-brown.
Dark-blue, dark-yellow, dark-red, and dark-green,
With three heads, six arms, and four legs wide apart. [5]They wear various raw hides鈥�
Snakes, skull-garlands, and garb of sun and moon.
They roar in a great voice, awesome and terrifying. [6]To represent the chillocosm and its horizon
They wield diverse hand-implements,
Including vajra, human skull-cup filled (with blood),
Sword, axe, and ploughshare.
And they are embraced by the terrifying host of their queens. [7]These (deities) are well beautified
By the 尘耻诲谤腻蝉 of the sensory locations,
By the 尘耻诲谤腻蝉 of the sense-objects
And by the 尘耻诲谤腻蝉 of the four (sensory) gates. [8]They are beautified by their retainers,
And a host of concubines and maid-servants,
Twenty-eight in number.
These maintain their own seats,
Hand-implements, and servile guises. [9]
With these words, throughout the ten directions of the six world-systems the entire blazing 尘补峁囜笉补濒补 became radiant. [10]
This completes the seventeenth chapter from the Secret Nucleus Definitive with respect to the Real, entitled Revelation of the Ma峁囜笉ala of Wrathful Deities. [11]