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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 [[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. | ||
[[Khenpo Namdrol]] writes: "Among the distinctions within Mahayoga, namely the great accomplishment pratices of the eight herukas and the eighteen classes of the great tantras, this ''Secret Essence Tantra'' extracts the essence of them all, as well as being the general tantra of enlightened mind. The twenty-two chapters of this tantra afford an explanation of the three tantras of the ground, path and result and, within the context of the tantra of the path, the [[ten topics of tantra]]."<ref>Introduction to Ju Mipham Jampal Gyepa'i Dorje, ''Essence of Clear Light: An Overview of the Secret Commentary "Thorough Dispelling of Darkness throughout the Ten Directions"'' (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2010).</ref> | |||
==Tibetan Text== | ==Tibetan Text== | ||
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* {{TBRCW|O003JR198|O003JR198003JR4285$W25983|རྒྱུད་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དཔལ་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་གསང་བ་སྙིང་པོ་, ''rgyud thams cad kyi rgyal po dpal sgyu 'phrul rtsa ba'i rgyud gsang ba snying po''}} from བཀའ་མ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་༼ཀཿ་ཐོག༽ | * {{TBRCW|O003JR198|O003JR198003JR4285$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<ref>by chronological order</ref>== | ||
===Indian=== | ===Indian=== | ||
*[[Buddhaguhya]], ''The [[Visionary Commentary]]'' (''spyan ‘grel'') | *[[Buddhaguhya]], ''The [[Visionary Commentary]]'' (''spyan ‘grel'') | ||
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Recordings of Khenpo Namdrol's teaching on Longchenpa's ''Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions'', Dodrupchen's ''Key to the Precious Treasury'', and Mipham Rinpoche's ''Essence of Clear Light'' are also available with English translation by Sangye Khandro from [http://lightofberotsana.squarespace.com/translations-published/ Light of Berotsana] and the [http://www.zamstore.com Zam Store] | Recordings of Khenpo Namdrol's teaching on Longchenpa's ''Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions'', Dodrupchen's ''Key to the Precious Treasury'', and Mipham Rinpoche's ''Essence of Clear Light'' are also available with English translation by Sangye Khandro from [http://lightofberotsana.squarespace.com/translations-published/ Light of Berotsana] and the [http://www.zamstore.com Zam Store] | ||
==Teachings on the Guhyagarbha Tantra Given to the [[Rigpa]] Sangha== | ==Teachings on the Guhyagarbha Tantra Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha== | ||
These teachings have been given several times to the | 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 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. | *[[Khenpo Namdrol]], [[Lerab Ling]], 2003-2006, using [[Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima]]'s ''[[Key to the Precious Treasury]]'' commentary. | ||
==References== | |||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
Revision as of 14:00, 7 January 2012
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.
Khenpo Namdrol writes: "Among the distinctions within Mahayoga, namely the great accomplishment pratices of the eight herukas and the eighteen classes of the great tantras, this Secret Essence Tantra extracts the essence of them all, as well as being the general tantra of enlightened mind. The twenty-two chapters of this tantra afford an explanation of the three tantras of the ground, path and result and, within the context of the tantra of the path, the ten topics of tantra."[1]
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[2]
Indian
- Buddhaguhya, The Visionary Commentary (spyan ‘grel)
- Vilasavajra, Guhyagarbhamahātantrarājatīkā (Skt.)
Tibetan
- Longchen Rabjam, Trilogy of Dispelling Darkness, (Wyl. mun sel skor gsum)
- Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions (Tib. གསང་སྙིང་འགྲེལ་པ་ཕྱོགས་བཅུ་མུན་སེལ་, gsang snying 'grel pa phyogs bcu mun sel)
- Dispelling Darkness of the Mind (Tib. གསང་སྙིང་སྤྱི་དོན་ཡིད་ཀྱི་མུན་སེལ་, gsang snying spyi don yid kyi mun sel)
- Dispelling Darkness of Ignorance (Tib. གསང་སྙིང་བསྡུས་དོན་མ་རིག་མུན་སེལ་, gsang snying bsdus don ma rig mun sel)
- Oral Instructions of the Lord of Secrets
- 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
- Longchen Rabjam, Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions, Light of Berotsana Translation, Snow Lion, 2011. The text also includes a translation of the root tantra.
- Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima, Key to the Precious Treasury, Light of Berotsana Translation, Snow Lion, 2011.
- Mipham Rinpoche, Essence of Clear Light, Light of Berotsana Translation, Snow Lion, 2011. Also translated as, Luminous Essence, A Guide to the Guhyagarbha Tantra, Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Snow Lion, 2009.
- Khenpo Namdrol, Transcript of the teachings on Longchenpa's Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions, on the Light of Berotsana website.
Recordings of Khenpo Namdrol's teaching on Longchenpa's Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions, Dodrupchen's Key to the Precious Treasury, and Mipham Rinpoche's Essence of Clear Light are also available with English translation by Sangye Khandro from Light of Berotsana and the Zam Store
Teachings on the Guhyagarbha Tantra Given to the Rigpa Sangha
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.
References
Further Reading
- Khenpo Palden Sherab Rinpoche & Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, Splendid Presence of the Great Guhyagarbha: Opening the Wisdom Door of the King of All Tantras, Dharma Samudra, 2011
- 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