Text 15.37 (Commentary)

[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 15.37]

Then the Transcendent Lord, the Great Joyous One, presented the vajra into their hands and conferred the name empowerment. Then they were arrayed in the outermost (area) of the maṇḍala. [37]

[Tibetan]

de-nas bcom-ldan-'das dgyes-pa chen-pos lag-tu rdo-rje byin-nas ming-gi dbang-bskur-te dkyil-'khor-gyi phyi-rol-du bkod-do / [37]

Commentary:

[iv. The fourth part concerns the empowerments and injunctions subsequently Imparted to the proud spirits. (It comments on Ch. 15.37):]

Then the Transcendent Lord (de-nas bcon-ldan-'das), Che-mchog, the Great Joyous One (dgyes-pa chen-pos), for the sake of living beings, presented the vajra into their hands (lag-tu rdo-rje byin), and (nas) conferred the empowerment (dbang-bskur-te) of (-gi) name (ming) respectively on them—Vajramanurākṣasī and so on.^[1] Then they were arrayed (bkod-do) successively in (-du) the outer courtyard, the outermost (phyi-rol) area of the maṇḍala (dkyil-'khor-gyi) of blazing deities, their positions being allocated in accordance with their respective rites.^[2]

[The conclusion (comments on Ch. 15.38):]

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Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Vajra is added to the names of the twenty-eight Īśvarīs to indicate that they have been transformed and encorporated [incorporated?] into the wrathful enlightened maṇḍala. In rdo-rde me-long, their respective mantras are listed with the prefix vajra, but cf. Ch. 16, p. 1155, for an alternative description without the prefix. On the "name empowerment" (ming-gi dbang-bskur), see also above. Ch. 9. note 76.

[2]:

I.e., those associated with rites of pacification are in the east, those with enrichment in the south, those with subjugation in the west, and those with wrath in the north.