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 1.17 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 1.17]
... This self-manifesting nature, radiant in its images of contemplation and its pure magical display, [17] ...
[Tibetan]
rang-snang-ba-nyid ting-'dzin gzugs-brnyan sgyu-ma rnam-dag gsal-ba-ni / [17]
Commentary:
[The manner in which it appears]
This Buddha-field of the spontaneous Bounteous Array, which is a nature (nyid) self-manifesting (rang-snang-ba) to the Tathāgata himself, is said to be radiant (gsal-ba-ni) and to appear essentially in the pure images of (gzugs-brnyan) the Buddhas’ contemplation (ting-'dzin) and in the naturally pure (rnam-dag) magical display (sgyu-ma) of pristine cognition.
[iii. The third (the recognition of the reality through which it is present comments on Ch. 1.18):]
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