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 19.19 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 19.19]
Among the two groups of five ancillary commitments
Each also has twenty subdivisions. [19][Tibetan]
yan-lag dam-tshig lnga-gnyis-la /
gcig-la'ang bcu-phrag gnyis-su dbye / [19]
Commentary:
[The latter, concerning the classification of the ancillary commitments, (comments on Ch. 19.19):]
Among the two groups of five ancillary commitments (yan-lag dam-tshig lnga-gnyis-la), i.e. the ten which are exemplified by the commitment not to renounce desire, each (gcig-la) one also (-'ang) has twenty subdivisions (bcu-phrag gnyis-su dbye): for each has skillful means and discriminative awareness, while skillful means includes five pristine cognitions and their five objects, and discriminative awareness includes five pristine cognitions and their five objects; making twenty altogether.[1]
[The second, the inconceivable classification, has two aspects of which the former reveals that commitments are inconceivable because apparent reality is inconceivable. (It comments on Ch. 19.20):][2]
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Footnotes and references:
[1]:
I.e. each of the ten ancillary commitments has twenty subdivisions. See above, p. 1212, and note 15.