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 13.11 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 13.11]
The secret seminal points are the expanse of real nature.
They are the actuality of all the Buddhas. [11][Tibetan]
gsang-ba'i thig-le-nyid-kyi dbyings /
de-ni sangs-rgyas kun-gyi dngos / [11]
Commentary:
[The interlinear commentary (on the secret inner radiance, 474.6-477.3) has three aspects.]
[Among them the first concerns the recognition of the nature of the ground or inner radiance. (It comments on Ch. 13.11):]
The maṇḍalas of Buddha-body and pristine cognition, which are the secret seminal points (gsang-ba'i thig-le) of inner radiance, abiding in the four energy centres and especially in the heartcentre, are the expanse of (-kyi-dbyings) reality or the real nature (nyid) which is spontaneously present. Naturally abiding in the forms of Akaniṣṭha, the Bounteous Array, they are (de-ni) spontaneously present as the actuality of all the (kun-gyi dngos) primordial buddhas (sangs-rgyas), in this way, the three buddha-bodies are said to abide within oneself; and among them, the bodies of rapture and emanation are the basis of manifest appearance.
[The second concerns the recognition of the appearance of pristine cognition in accordance with the path. (It comments on Ch. 13.12):]
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