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 11.26 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 11.26]
Their respective mantras, seals
And contemplations radiate
Genuinely and differently. [26][Tibetan]
so-so'i sngags-dang phyag-rgya-dang /
ting-'dzin yang-dag so-sor gsal / [26]
Commentary:
[The Branches of Means for Attainment connected with the Feast-Offerings (416.2-419.1):]
The third part (of the maṇḍalas of skillful means and discriminative awareness of the path which are to be experientially cultivated, see p. 896) concerns the branches of means for attainment (connected with the feast-offerings). There are three parts.
[i. The first, the branch of contemplation which is attained, (comments on Ch. 11.26):]
When all things are attained in the maṇḍala, the outer and inner objects which are experienced as the body, its rapture and so forth, as well as the self which experiences them are displayed through the maṇḍala. Consequently, one should know that the respective mantras, seals and (so-so'i sngags-dang chyag-rgya-dang) contemplations (ting-'dzin) which are provisionally assumed radiate differently (so-sor-gsal), incontrovertibly, genuinely (yang-dag), and distinctly.
[ii. The second, concerning the way in which this branch Is appropriately attained, (comments on Ch. 11.27):]
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