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 19.3 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 19.3]
In the unsurpassed supreme commitments
Moral discipline through training.
And all the unthinkable vows that there are.
Without exception are all gathered and purified. [3][Tibetan]
bla-med mchog-gi dam-tshig-tu /
'dul-ba'i dbang-gis tshul-khrims-dang /
ji-snyed sdom-pa bsam-yas-pa /
ma-lus kun-'dus rnam-par dag / [3]
Commentary:
[ii. All Instructions and vows are shown to be gathered in the secret commitments. (It comments on Ch. 19.3):]
In the (tu) most secret unsurpassed supreme commitments (bla-med mchog-gi dam-tshig), the prātimokṣa vows or moral discipline (tshul-khrims) structured through (-'i dbang-gis) the training ('dul-ba) of misconduct, and (dang), exemplified thereby, the vows of the Bodhisattvas, and the enlightened attributes of all the unthinkable vows that there are (ji-snyed sdom-pa bsam-yas-pa) in the three outer classes of mantra along with the inner classes, without exception (ma-kus) are all (kun) progressively gathered ('dus): and even the most minute defects of those lower (vows) are purified (rnam-par-dag).
[iii. The structure of the supreme basic commitments has four parts of which the first concerns the taking of life (in the rite of "liberation". It comments on Ch. 19.4):]
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