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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Experience: The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism

rdo la gser zhun (རྡོ་ལ་གསེར་ཞུན) refers to one of the “Eighteen Esoteric Instructions (of the Mental Class)” which are known in Tibetan as: sems-sde bco-brgyad.—[Cf. (1) gdams-ngag mdzod or “Store of Precious Instructions”, Vol. 1, pp. 159-371. (2) rnying-ma bka'-ma rgyas-pa or “Collected Transmitted Precepts of the Nyingmapa” Vol. 17].—Longcenpa in “The Treasury of Spiritual and Philosophical Systems”, pp. 357-8, lists the Tantras from which they are derived [e.g., rdo-la gser-zhun].

Source: Academia: The " Twenty or Eighteen " Texts of the Mind Series

rdo la gser zhun (རྡོ་ལ་གསེར་ཞུན) is another name for byang chub sems bsgom pa (“meditation on the enlightened mind”) which refers to one of the “Eighteen Texts of the Mind Series” (Tibetan: sems sde bco rgyad)— the earliest known corpus of Dzogchen literature (also: “great perfection” or Atiyoga) in Nyingma Buddhism.—The many lists of the Eighteen Texts that emerged between the 9th and the 14th century differ in their contents, there is no canonical collection of texts within the rNying ma tradition that includes all of the eighteen texts. One list includes [e.g., “Meditation on the Enlightened Mind”; Tibetan: byang chub sems bsgom pa; or: sems bsgom; or: rdo la gser zhun]. It is mentioned in the 9th century text “The Lamp for the Eye in Meditation” (Tibetan: bSam gtan mig sgron), a treatise written by the Tibetan scholar gNubs chen Sangs rgyas ye she.

The following sources mention the text “The Great Soaring Garuda”: (1) As [khyung chen lding ba; or khyung chen]—Mentioned in the 9th century text “The Lamp for the Eye in Meditation” (Tibetan: bSam gtan mig sgron), a treatise written by the Tibetan scholar gNubs chen Sangs rgyas ye she. (2) As [rdo la gser zhun, another name for the: byang chub sems bsgom pa].—Mentioned in the 13th century “Mask of Bai ro tsa na” [bairo'i 'dra 'bag chen mo], which is included as the last volume (in fact as the last text) in the anomalous collection of bairo'i rgyud 'bum. (3) As [rdo la gser zhun].—Mentioned as one of the the Five Early Translations (snga 'gyur lnga) in the 14th century “Treasury of Spiritual and Philosophical Systems” (grub mtha' mdzod) by Tibetan scholar Klong chen pa.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Starts with: rdo la gser zhun gi lung, rdo la gser zhun gyi lung.

Full-text: rdo la gser zhun gi lung, rdo la gser zhun gyi lung, Eighteen major scriptures, gting skyes, byang chub sems sgom pa, byang chub sems bsgom pa, sems bsgom.

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