The Great Chariot

by Longchenpa | 268,580 words

A Commentary on Great Perfection: The Nature of Mind, Easer of Weariness In Sanskrit the title is ‘Mahāsandhi-cittā-visranta-vṛtti-mahāratha-nāma’. In Tibetan ‘rDzogs pa chen po sems nyid ngal gso’i shing rta chen po shes bya ba ’...

Part 3d.2f - The explanation of self appearance and other-appearance

According to the presentation of the mandalas of the peaceful and wrathful deities in the Net of Miracle:

As to how they are:

The fields of self-appearance comprising sambhogakaya
Are as many as the body-practice mandalas.
As many peaceful and wrathful deities as appear,
From the viewpoint of others, so that they can be tamed,
They all are gathered under the head of nirmanakaya.
They are not sambhogakaya self-experience.

The body practice mandalas of Guhyasamaja, Hevajra, Chakrasamvara, and so forth, as many as are taught in the anuttara tantras, are self-appearances of sambhogakaya, and not appearances for others. Some say that these complexities of the mandalas of wrathful ones, which exist for the purpose of taming obstructing spirits and agents of perversion, are nirmanakayas , rather than part of the mandala of the field of Akanishta. Since they are projected self-appearance mandalas of these obstructing spirits, they are like dreams.

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