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'''Guhyagarbha Tantra''' (Skt.; Tib. ''Gyü Sangwé Nyingpo''; [[Wyl.]] ''rgyud gsang ba'i snying po''), ''The Essence of Secrets Tantra'' — the main [[tantra]] of the [[Mahayoga]]. For centuries, detailed study of its root verses and many celebrated commentaries, including [[Longchenpa]]'s ''[[Trilogy of Dispelling Darkness]]'', [[Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima]]'s ''[[Key to the Precious Treasury]]'' and [[Mipham Rinpoche]]'s ''[[Essence of Clear Light]]'', has been the key to understanding the [[Vajrayana]]’s most prominent themes and practices, such as [[empowerment]], [[samaya]], [[mantra]] recitation and the use of [[mandala]]s. | '''Guhyagarbha Tantra''' (Skt.; Tib. རྒྱུད་[[གསང་བ་སྙིང་པོ་]], ''Gyü Sangwé Nyingpo''; [[Wyl.]] ''rgyud gsang ba'i snying po''), ''The Essence of Secrets Tantra'' — the main [[tantra]] of the [[Mahayoga]]. For centuries, detailed study of its root verses and many celebrated commentaries, including [[Longchenpa]]'s ''[[Trilogy of Dispelling Darkness]]'', [[Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima]]'s ''[[Key to the Precious Treasury]]'' and [[Mipham Rinpoche]]'s ''[[Essence of Clear Light]]'', has been the key to understanding the [[Vajrayana]]’s most prominent themes and practices, such as [[empowerment]], [[samaya]], [[mantra]] recitation and the use of [[mandala]]s. | ||
==Tibetan Text== | |||
* {{TBRCW|O01JW005|O01JW00501JW16388$W22703|གསང་བའི་སྙིང་པོ་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ངེས་པ་, ''gsang ba'i snying po de kho na nyid nges pa''}} from བཀའ་འགྱུར་༼སྣར་ཐང༽ | |||
* {{TBRCW|O003JR198|O003JR198003JR4285$W25983|རྒྱུད་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དཔལ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་གསང་བ་སྙིང་པོ་, ''rgyud thams cad kyi rgyal po dpal sgyu 'phrul rtsa ba'i rgyud gsang ba snying po''}} from བཀའ་མ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་༼ཀཿ་ཐོག༽ | |||
==Commentaries== | ==Commentaries== | ||
===Indian=== | ===Indian=== | ||
*[[Vilasavajra]], ''Guhyagarbhamahātantrarājatīkā'' (Skt | *[[Vilasavajra]], ''Guhyagarbhamahātantrarājatīkā'' (Skt.) | ||
:{{TBRCW|O1JT2627|O1JT26272JT1676$W19229|དཔལ་གསང་བ་སྙིང་པོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྤར་ཁབ་, ''dpal gsang ba snying po'i 'grel pa rin po che'i spar khab''}} | |||
===Tibetan=== | ===Tibetan=== | ||
*[[Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo]], ''[[The Jewel Commentary]]'' | *[[Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo]], ''[[The Jewel Commentary]]'' | ||
*[[Longchen Rabjam]], ''[[Trilogy of Dispelling Darkness]]'', (Wyl. ''mun sel skor gsum'') | :{{TBRCW|O003JR198|O003JR198003JR5032$W25983|དཀོན་མཆོག་འགྲེལ་,''dkon mchog 'grel''}} | ||
*[[Longchen Rabjam]], ''Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions'', see ''[[Trilogy of Dispelling Darkness]]'', (Wyl. ''mun sel skor gsum'') | |||
:{{TBRCW|O003JR198|O003JR198003JR5033$W25983|དཔལ་གསང་བ་སྙིང་པོ་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ངེས་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཕྱོགས་བཅུའི་མུན་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སེལ་བ་, ''dpal gsang ba snying po de kho na nyid nges pa'i rgyud kyi 'grel pa phyogs bcu'i mun pa thams cad rnam par sel ba''}} | |||
*[[Lochen Dharmashri]], ''Oral Instructions of the Lord of Secrets'' | *[[Lochen Dharmashri]], ''Oral Instructions of the Lord of Secrets'' | ||
:{{TBRCW|O003JR198|O003JR198003JR5045$W25983|དཔལ་གསང་བའི་སྙིང་པོ་དེ་ཁོ་ཉིད་ངེས་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་དྲྭ་བ་སྤྱི་དོན་གྱི་སྒོ་ནས་གཏན་ལ་འབེབས་པར་བྱེད་པའི་ལེགས་བཤད་གསང་བདག་ཞལ་ལུང་, ''dpal gsang ba'i snying po de kho nyid nges pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po sgyu 'phrul drwa ba spyi don gyi sgo nas gtan la 'bebs par byed pa'i legs bshad gsang bdag zhal lung''}} ff. | |||
:*''Ornament of the Wisdom Mind of the Lord of Secrets'' | :*''Ornament of the Wisdom Mind of the Lord of Secrets'' | ||
*[[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''[[Essence of Clear Light]]'' (Wyl. '' 'od gsal snying po'') | *[[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''[[Essence of Clear Light]]'' (Tib. འོད་གསལ་སྙིང་པོ་, Wyl. '' 'od gsal snying po''), a commentary on Longchen Rabjam's commentary ''Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions''. | ||
*[[Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima]], ''[[Key to the Precious Treasury]]'' (Wyl. ''mdzod kyi lde mig'') | :{{TBRCW|O003JR198|O003JR198003JR5036$W25983|གསང་འགྲེལ་ཕྱོགས་བཅུའི་མུན་སེལ་གྱི་སྤྱི་དོན་འོད་གསལ་སྙིང་པོ་, ''gsang 'grel phyogs bcu'i mun sel gyi spyi don 'od gsal snying po''}} | ||
*[[Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima]], ''[[Key to the Precious Treasury]]'' (Tib. མཛོད་ཀྱི་ལྡེ་མིག་, Wyl. ''mdzod kyi lde mig'') | |||
:{{TBRCW|O003JR198|O003JR198003JR5052$W25983|དཔལ་གསང་བའི་སྙིང་པོའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་སྤྱི་དོན་ཉུང་ངུའི་ངག་གིས་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ་རིན་ཆེན་མཛོད་ཀྱི་ལྡེ་མིག་, dpal gsang ba'i snying po'i rgyud kyi spyi don nyung ngu'i ngag gis rnam par 'byed pa rin chen mdzod kyi lde mig}} | |||
===English Translations=== | ===English Translations=== | ||
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Guhyagarbha Tantra (Skt.; Tib. རྒྱུད་གསང་བ་སྙིང་པོ་, Gyü Sangwé Nyingpo; Wyl. rgyud gsang ba'i snying po), The Essence of Secrets Tantra — the main tantra of the Mahayoga. For centuries, detailed study of its root verses and many celebrated commentaries, including Longchenpa's Trilogy of Dispelling Darkness, Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima's Key to the Precious Treasury and Mipham Rinpoche's Essence of Clear Light, has been the key to understanding the Vajrayana’s most prominent themes and practices, such as empowerment, samaya, mantra recitation and the use of mandalas.
Tibetan Text
གསང་བའི་སྙིང་པོ་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ངེས་པ་, gsang ba'i snying po de kho na nyid nges pa from བཀའ་འགྱུར་༼སྣར་ཐང༽- རྒྱུད་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དཔལ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་གསང་བ་སྙིང་པོ་, rgyud thams cad kyi rgyal po dpal sgyu 'phrul rtsa ba'i rgyud gsang ba snying po from བཀའ་མ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་༼ཀཿ་ཐོག༽
Commentaries
Indian
- Vilasavajra, Guhyagarbhamahātantrarājatīkā (Skt.)
Tibetan
- Longchen Rabjam, Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions, see Trilogy of Dispelling Darkness, (Wyl. mun sel skor gsum)
- Lochen Dharmashri, Oral Instructions of the Lord of Secrets
- དཔལ་གསང་བའི་སྙིང་པོ་དེ་ཁོ་ཉིད་ངེས་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་དྲྭ་བ་སྤྱི་དོན་གྱི་སྒོ་ནས་གཏན་ལ་འབེབས་པར་བྱེད་པའི་ལེགས་བཤད་གསང་བདག་ཞལ་ལུང་, dpal gsang ba'i snying po de kho nyid nges pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po sgyu 'phrul drwa ba spyi don gyi sgo nas gtan la 'bebs par byed pa'i legs bshad gsang bdag zhal lung ff.
- Ornament of the Wisdom Mind of the Lord of Secrets
- Mipham Rinpoche, Essence of Clear Light (Tib. འོད་གསལ་སྙིང་པོ་, Wyl. 'od gsal snying po), a commentary on Longchen Rabjam's commentary Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions.
- Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima, Key to the Precious Treasury (Tib. མཛོད་ཀྱི་ལྡེ་མིག་, Wyl. mdzod kyi lde mig)
English Translations
- Jamgön Mipham, Luminous Essence, A Guide to the Guhyagarbha Tantra, Dharmachakra Translation Committee (Snow Lion, 2009)
- Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima, Key to the Precious Treasury, Light of Berotsana Translation, forthcoming.
- Mipham Rinpoche, Essence of Clear Light, Light of Berotsana Translation, forthcoming.
- Longchen Rabjam, Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions, Light of Berotsana Translation, forthcoming.
Teachings on the Guhyagarbha Tantra
These teachings have been given several times to the Rigpa Sangha, including:
- Khenpo Petse Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, 1997, using Mipham Rinpoche's Essence of Clear Light commentary.
- Khenpo Namdrol, Lerab Ling, 2003-2006, using Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima's Key to the Precious Treasury commentary.
Further Reading
- Nathaniel DeWitt Garson, Penetrating the Secret Essence Tantra: Context and Philosophy in the Mahāyoga System of rNying-ma Tantra, unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Virginia, 2004
- Ringu Tulku, The Ri-me Philosophy of Jamgön Kongtrul the Great, Shambhala Publications, 2006, pp. 75-79