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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 21.4 (Commentary)

[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 21.4]

HŪ�! The great light of wrathful discriminative awareness
Is radiant in all ṇḍ of pristine cognition.
It entirely subdues (conflicting emotions)
In blazing pristine cognition.
The pristine cognitions of diverse kinds
Are present in this great seminal point. HO� [4]

[Tibetan]

HŪ� khro-bo shes-rab 'od-po-che /
ye-shes dkyil-'khor kun-tu gsal /
'bar-ba'i ye-shes kun-tu 'joms /
sna-tshogs ye-shes thig-le che HO� / [4]

Commentary:

[The third aspect is a eulogy to the ṇḍ belonging to the enlightened family of Buddha-mind (which comments on Ch. 21.4):]

One who knows all objects of knowledge without exception possesses the great light ('od-no-che) rays of discriminative awareness (shes-rab) which are wrathful (khro-bo) to the host of ignorant beings. That light is radiant in all ṇḍ of (dkyil-'khor kun-tu gsal) the fivefold pristine cognition (ye-shes), so that it entirely subdues (kun-tu-'joms) the energy of conflicting emotions with their individual characteristics, which provisionally appear, blazing ('bar-ba'i) forth as the five poisons, but abide essentially in pristine cognition (ye-shes-su).

Moreover, this pristine cognition, with reference to the emanational body, comprises both the pristine cognition which qualitatively knows (the view) and that which quantitatively knows (phenomena); and, with reference to the body of perfect rapture, it comprises the mirror-like pristine cognition and so forth.{GL_NOTE::} These pristine cognitions of diverse kinds are present (sna-tshogs ye-shes) of a single savour in the pristine cognition of genuine reality, this great seminal point (thig-le che) which is the non-dual essence.{GL_NOTE::}

[The fourth aspect is a eulogy to all the ṇḍ of the enlightened family of attributes. (It comments on Ch. 21.5):]

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