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 19.18 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 19.18]
Among the five basic commitments
Each has two and then thirty subdivisions. [18][Tibetan]
rtsa-ba'i dam-tshig lnga-la-ni /
gcig-la'ang gnyis-dang bcu-phrag gsum / [18]
Commentary:
[The latter is their classification, which is in two sections, namely the classification of enumerated (commitments) and the classification of inconceivable (commitments).]
[The first comprises two aspects, of which the former, concerning the classification of the basic commitments (comments on Ch. 19.18):]
Among the five basic commitments (rtsa-ba'i dam-tshig lnga-la ni), each (gcig-la) of them—for example, not to abandon the unsurpassed—has two (-'ang gnyis) basic divisions of skillful means and discriminative awareness, and then (dang) these two each have the three subdivisions of Buddha-body, speech and mind, making six; while each of these (six) also has five subdivisions corresponding to Buddha-body, speech, mind, attributes and activities. Combined in this way, there are thirty subdivisions (bcu-phrag gsum) of the basic commitments.[1]
[The latter, concerning the classification of the ancillary commitments, (comments on Ch. 19.19):]
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Footnotes and references:
[1]:
I.e. each of the five basic commitments has thirty sub divisions. See also above, pp. 1211-1212, and note 14.