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 15.30 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 15.30]
... So saying, all the Maheśvara spirits and so forth were expelled from the bowels of these transcendent lords or great wrathful deities. They were immersed in an ocean of unclean mire, and then Ucchuṣmakrodha emerged from the bowels, and, drinking all the mire, caused them to regain mindfulness. [30] ...
[Tibetan]
—zhes brjod-pas / dbang-phyug chen-po la-sogs-pa thams-cad / bcom-ldan-'das khro-bo chen-po de-dag-gi snam-nas bton-nas / mi-gtsang-ba'i 'dam-gyi rgya-mtshor chud-pa-las snam-nas u-tshu-ṣma kro-ddha phyung-nas 'dam kun 'thungs-te dran-pa slar-rnyed-nas / [30]
Commentary:
[The second concerns the reemergence of the proud spirits from that (wrathful maṇḍala), and their ablution. (It comments on Ch. 15.30):]
So saying (zhes-brjod-pas), all the Maheśvara spirits and so forth (dbang-phyug chen-po la-sogs-pa thams-cad) whose flesh had formerly been eaten and consumed were expelled from the bowels (snam-nas bton-to), through the "lower door" of these (de-dag-gi) five enlightened families of the transcendent lords, the great wrathful deities (bcom-ldan-'das khro-bo chen-po). They were immersed in an ocean of unclean mire (mi-gtsang-ba'i 'dam-gyi rgya-mtshor chud-pa) including excrement (dri-chen), and then (las), in order that they might be purified, the wrathful deity Ucchuṣmakrodha emerged from the bowels (snam-nas u-cuṣma kro-ddha phyung) of the different wrathful deities. Then, drinking all the (kun 'thungs-te) unclean mire ('dam), he caused those proud spirits to regain mindfulness (dran-pa slar rnyed-nas).[1]
Ucchuṣmakrodha is the wrathful deity known (in Tibetan) as rme-ba brtsegs-pa, "mound of impurity". He is so called because, in addition to expelling the mire from the bowels, he drinks the mire.
[The third concerns the visage of the maṇḍala of blazing deities which was then revealed. (It comments on Ch. 15.31):]
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