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 20.1 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 20.1]
Then the Tathāgata, Transcendent Lord and Great Joyous One, became absorbed in the contemplation called "the consecration of the spontaneous commitment", and uttered these meaningful expressions. [1]
[Tibetan]
de-nas de-bzhin gshegs-pa bcom-ldan-'das dgyes-pa chen-pos lhun-gyis grub-pa'i dam-tshig byin-gyis rlob-pa zhes-bya-ba'i ting-nge-'dzin-la snyoms-par zhugs-nas ched-du brjod-pa 'di-brjod-do / [1]
Commentary:
[Commentary (596.4-606.6):]
The fifth section (of the extensive exegesis of the means for attaining the maṇḍala of wrathful deities in accordance with the path—see p. 1147) concerns the attainment of enlightened activity by those who keep the commitments. It has three subdivisions, namely the background motivation, an exegesis of the meaning of its words, and a summary of the chapter.
[The first (comments on Ch. 20.1):]
Once the sequence of the commitments had been explained, then (de-nas) in order that those who keep the commitments might accomplish enlightened activity, [the Tathāgata, de-bzhin gshegs-pa], Transcendent Lord (bcom-ldan-'das) and Great Joyous One (dgyes-pa chen-pos) of pristine cognition became absorbed in the contemplation called (zhes-bya-ba'i ting-nge-'dzin-la snyoms-par zhugs) the "consecration of the (byin-gyis rlob-pa) primordial, natural and spontaneous commitment” (lhun-gyis grub-pa'i dam-tshig) as enlightened activity, and uttered these meaningful expressions (-nas ched-du brjod-pa 'di brjod-do) through which all is accomplished.
The second subdivision has three parts, namely a general teaching on the sequence of the four kinds of enlightened activity; a particular exegesis of the injunctions which follow these rites and the benefits of the dance-steps and gesticulations; and the distinctions between the places and contemplations associated with the attainment of the four rites.
[Sequence of the Four Kinds of Enlightened Activity (597.1-602.4):]
The first has four aspects—the rite of wrath, the rite of subjugation, the rite of enrichment, and the rite of pacification.
[i. The rite of wrath has three sections, of which the first is the rite of the burning fire. (It comments on Ch. 20.2):]
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