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| − | '[[Great Auspicious Beauty]] [[Tantra]]' or '[[Trashi Dzenden Chenpögyü]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[བཀྲ་ཤིས་མཛེས་ལྡན་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད]]}},Tib. [[tashi dzeden]], Wylie: [[bkra shis mdzes ldan chen po'i rgyud]]) is numbered amongst the '[[Seventeen Tantras]] of [[Menngagde]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[མན་ངག་སྡེའི་རྒྱུད་བཅུ་བདུན]]}}, Wylie: [[man ngag sde'i rgyud bcu bdun]]) within [[Dzogchen]] {{Wiki|discourse}} and is part of the textual support for the [[Vima Nyingtik]]. | + | |
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| + | '[[Great Auspicious Beauty]] [[Tantra]]' or '[[Trashi Dzenden Chenpögyü]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[བཀྲ་ཤིས་མཛེས་ལྡན་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད]]}},Tib. [[tashi dzeden]], [[Wylie]]: [[bkra shis mdzes ldan chen po'i rgyud]]) is numbered amongst the '[[Seventeen Tantras]] of [[Menngagde]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[མན་ངག་སྡེའི་རྒྱུད་བཅུ་བདུན]]}}, [[Wylie]]: [[man ngag sde'i rgyud bcu bdun]]) within [[Dzogchen]] {{Wiki|discourse}} and is part of the textual support for the [[Vima Nyingtik]]. | ||
[[Erik Pema Kunsang|Kunsang]] (1987, 2007: p.88) provides the following summary of this [[Dzogchen]] [[tantra]] thus: | [[Erik Pema Kunsang|Kunsang]] (1987, 2007: p.88) provides the following summary of this [[Dzogchen]] [[tantra]] thus: | ||
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: "...[it] teaches how to establish the [[nature]] of [[awareness]] and how to identify the basis of {{Wiki|confusion}} and the unmistaken [[wisdom]]." | : "...[it] teaches how to establish the [[nature]] of [[awareness]] and how to identify the basis of {{Wiki|confusion}} and the unmistaken [[wisdom]]." | ||
| − | These [[Seventeen Tantras]] are to be found in the [[Canon of the Ancient School]], the '[[Nyingma Gyubum]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[རྙིང་མ་རྒྱུད་འབུམ]]}}, Wylie: [[rnying ma rgyud 'bum]]), volumes 9 and 10, folio numbers 143-159 of the edition edited by '[[Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche]]' commonly known as [[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]] (Thimpu, [[Bhutan]], 1973), reproduced from the {{Wiki|manuscript}} preserved at '[[Tingkye Gonpa Jang]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[གཏིང་སྐྱེས་དགོན་པ་བྱང]]}}, Wylie: [[gting skyes dgon pa byang]]) [[Monastery]] in [[Tibet]]. | + | These [[Seventeen Tantras]] are to be found in the [[Canon of the Ancient School]], the '[[Nyingma Gyubum]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[རྙིང་མ་རྒྱུད་འབུམ]]}}, [[Wylie]]: [[rnying ma rgyud 'bum]]), volumes 9 and 10, folio numbers 143-159 of the edition edited by '[[Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche]]' commonly known as [[Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]] ([[Thimpu]], [[Bhutan]], 1973), reproduced from the {{Wiki|manuscript}} preserved at '[[Tingkye Gonpa Jang]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[གཏིང་སྐྱེས་དགོན་པ་བྱང]]}}, [[Wylie]]: [[gting skyes dgon pa byang]]) [[Monastery]] in [[Tibet]]. |
==Nomenclature, {{Wiki|orthography}} and {{Wiki|etymology}}== | ==Nomenclature, {{Wiki|orthography}} and {{Wiki|etymology}}== | ||
| − | This [[tantra]] is rendered in English as "[[Tantra of Great Beauty and Auspiciousness]]" (1995, 2003: p.210) within the English translation of the first [[book]] of the [[Sheja Dzö]] of [[Jamgon Kongtrul]] (1813-1899) entitled in English Myriad [[Worlds]]. | + | This [[tantra]] is rendered in English as "[[Tantra of Great Beauty and Auspiciousness]]" (1995, 2003: p.210) within the English translation of the first [[book]] of the [[Sheja Dzö]] of [[Jamgon Kongtrul]] (1813-1899) entitled in English {{Wiki|Myriad}} [[Worlds]]. |
==English {{Wiki|discourse}}== | ==English {{Wiki|discourse}}== | ||
| − | [[Matthew Kapstein|Kapstein]] (1992: p. 64) opens the {{Wiki|discourse}} of this [[Tantra]] into English with a quotation embedded within [[Longchenpa]]'s [[Tegchö Dzö]] (Wylie: [[theg mchog mdzod]]; fol. 3b-4a) which [[Wikipedia:Matthew Kapstein|Kapstein]] renders into English as follows wherein the [[Adi Buddha]], [[Samantabhadra]], {{Wiki|voices}}: | + | [[Matthew Kapstein|Kapstein]] (1992: p. 64) opens the {{Wiki|discourse}} of this [[Tantra]] into English with a quotation embedded within [[Longchenpa]]'s [[Tegchö Dzö]] ([[Wylie]]: [[theg mchog mdzod]]; fol. 3b-4a) which [[Wikipedia:Matthew Kapstein|Kapstein]] renders into English as follows wherein the [[Adi Buddha]], [[Samantabhadra]], {{Wiki|voices}}: |
: Though I am free from {{Wiki|bewilderment}}, {{Wiki|bewilderment}} has emerged from my expressive power. Though I do not come into being as ground, my [[nature]] having arisen without impediment, unawareness has spontaneously emerged from my [[spirituality]] that is without [[determination]]. Just as clouds do not intrinsically [[exist]] in the sky, but emerge fortuitously, so there is no unawareness at all that belongs to the ground. | : Though I am free from {{Wiki|bewilderment}}, {{Wiki|bewilderment}} has emerged from my expressive power. Though I do not come into being as ground, my [[nature]] having arisen without impediment, unawareness has spontaneously emerged from my [[spirituality]] that is without [[determination]]. Just as clouds do not intrinsically [[exist]] in the sky, but emerge fortuitously, so there is no unawareness at all that belongs to the ground. | ||
| − | The following English rendering of a quotation from the [[Great Auspicious Beauty]] was embedded in the [[Sheja Dzö]] of [[Jamgon Kongtrul]] (1813-1899) and specifically the section of the [[Sheja Dzö]] translated into English entitled Myriad [[Worlds]] (1995, 2003: p.210), and the [[Tibetan]] Wylie was sourced from Wikisource: | + | The following English rendering of a quotation from the [[Great Auspicious Beauty]] was embedded in the [[Sheja Dzö]] of [[Jamgon Kongtrul]] (1813-1899) and specifically the section of the [[Sheja Dzö]] translated into English entitled {{Wiki|Myriad}} [[Worlds]] (1995, 2003: p.210), and the [[Tibetan]] [[Wylie]] was sourced from Wikisource: |
:[[Unceasing space is the gate through which the ground of being manifests as energy]]. | :[[Unceasing space is the gate through which the ground of being manifests as energy]]. | ||
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::'[[dod don nor bu rin po che lta bu ste]] {{BigTibetan|[[འདོད་དོན་ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལྟ་བུ་སྟེ]]}} | ::'[[dod don nor bu rin po che lta bu ste]] {{BigTibetan|[[འདོད་དོན་ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལྟ་བུ་སྟེ]]}} | ||
| − | These eight are also known as the '[[Eight doors of spontaneous presence]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ཀྱི་སྒོ་བརྒྱད]]་}}, Wylie: [[lhun grub kyi sgo brgyad]]): | + | These eight are also known as the '[[Eight doors of spontaneous presence]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ཀྱི་སྒོ་བརྒྱད]]་}}, [[Wylie]]: [[lhun grub kyi sgo brgyad]]): |
| − | * [[compassion]]/[[energy]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[ཐུགས་རྗེ]]་}}, Wylie: [[thugs rje]]), | + | * [[compassion]]/[[energy]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[ཐུགས་རྗེ]]་}}, [[Wylie]]: [[thugs rje]]), |
| − | * [[lights]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[འོད་]]}}, Wylie: [['od]]), | + | * [[lights]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[འོད་]]}}, [[Wylie]]: [['od]]), |
| − | * [[kayas]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[སྐུ]]་}}, Wylie: [[sku]]), | + | * [[kayas]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[སྐུ]]་}}, [[Wylie]]: [[sku]]), |
| − | * [[wisdom]], ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[ཡེ་ཤེས]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, Wylie: [[ye shes]]), | + | * [[wisdom]], ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[ཡེ་ཤེས]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[Wylie]]: [[ye shes]]), |
| − | * [[nonduality]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[གཉིས་མེད]]་}}, Wylie: [[gnyis med]]), | + | * [[nonduality]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[གཉིས་མེད]]་}}, [[Wylie]]: [[gnyis med]]), |
| − | * [[freedom from extremes]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[མཐའ་གྲོལ]]་}}, Wylie: [[mtha' grol]]), | + | * [[freedom from extremes]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[མཐའ་གྲོལ]]་}}, [[Wylie]]: [[mtha' grol]]), |
| − | * the [[impure gate of samsara]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[མ་དག་པ་འཁོར་བའི་སྒོ]]་}}, Wylie: [[ma dag pa 'khor ba'i sgo]]), and | + | * the [[impure gate of samsara]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[མ་དག་པ་འཁོར་བའི་སྒོ]]་}}, [[Wylie]]: [[ma dag pa 'khor ba'i sgo]]), and |
| − | * the [[pure gate of wisdom]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[དག་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་སྒོ]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, Wylie: [[dag pa ye shes kyi sgo]]). | + | * the [[pure gate of wisdom]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[དག་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་སྒོ]]}}{{BigTibetan|་}}, [[Wylie]]: [[dag pa ye shes kyi sgo]]). |
==Primary resources== | ==Primary resources== | ||
*[http://wikisource.org/wiki/Bkra_shis_mdzes_ldan_chen_po'i_rgyud Bkra shis mdzes ldan chen po'i rgyud in Wylie @ Wikisource] | *[http://wikisource.org/wiki/Bkra_shis_mdzes_ldan_chen_po'i_rgyud Bkra shis mdzes ldan chen po'i rgyud in Wylie @ Wikisource] | ||
| − | *[http://wikisource.org/wiki/བཀྲ་ཤིས་མཛེས་ལྡན་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད བཀྲ་ཤིས་མཛེས་ལྡན་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད in Tibetan Script (Uchen) Unicode @ Wikisource] | + | *[http://wikisource.org/wiki/བཀྲ་ཤིས་མཛེས་ལྡན་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད {{BigTibetan|བཀྲ་ཤིས་མཛེས་ལྡན་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད}} in Tibetan Script (Uchen) Unicode @ Wikisource] |
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Latest revision as of 19:30, 30 March 2024
'Great Auspicious Beauty Tantra' or 'Trashi Dzenden Chenpögyü' (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་མཛེས་ལྡན་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད,Tib. tashi dzeden, Wylie: bkra shis mdzes ldan chen po'i rgyud) is numbered amongst the 'Seventeen Tantras of Menngagde' (Tibetan: མན་ངག་སྡེའི་རྒྱུད་བཅུ་བདུན, Wylie: man ngag sde'i rgyud bcu bdun) within Dzogchen discourse and is part of the textual support for the Vima Nyingtik.
Kunsang (1987, 2007: p.88) provides the following summary of this Dzogchen tantra thus:
- "...[it] teaches how to establish the nature of awareness and how to identify the basis of confusion and the unmistaken wisdom."
These Seventeen Tantras are to be found in the Canon of the Ancient School, the 'Nyingma Gyubum' (Tibetan: རྙིང་མ་རྒྱུད་འབུམ, Wylie: rnying ma rgyud 'bum), volumes 9 and 10, folio numbers 143-159 of the edition edited by 'Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche' commonly known as Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Thimpu, Bhutan, 1973), reproduced from the manuscript preserved at 'Tingkye Gonpa Jang' (Tibetan: གཏིང་སྐྱེས་དགོན་པ་བྱང, Wylie: gting skyes dgon pa byang) Monastery in Tibet.
Nomenclature, orthography and etymology
This tantra is rendered in English as "Tantra of Great Beauty and Auspiciousness" (1995, 2003: p.210) within the English translation of the first book of the Sheja Dzö of Jamgon Kongtrul (1813-1899) entitled in English Myriad Worlds.
English discourse
Kapstein (1992: p. 64) opens the discourse of this Tantra into English with a quotation embedded within Longchenpa's Tegchö Dzö (Wylie: theg mchog mdzod; fol. 3b-4a) which Kapstein renders into English as follows wherein the Adi Buddha, Samantabhadra, voices:
- Though I am free from bewilderment, bewilderment has emerged from my expressive power. Though I do not come into being as ground, my nature having arisen without impediment, unawareness has spontaneously emerged from my spirituality that is without determination. Just as clouds do not intrinsically exist in the sky, but emerge fortuitously, so there is no unawareness at all that belongs to the ground.
The following English rendering of a quotation from the Great Auspicious Beauty was embedded in the Sheja Dzö of Jamgon Kongtrul (1813-1899) and specifically the section of the Sheja Dzö translated into English entitled Myriad Worlds (1995, 2003: p.210), and the Tibetan Wylie was sourced from Wikisource:
- Unceasing space is the gate through which the ground of being manifests as energy.
- Unceasing appearance is the ground manifesting as lights.
- Unceasing enjoyment is the ground manifesting as pristine wisdom.
- Unceasing nature is the ground manifesting as dimensions of awakening.
- Unceasing view is the ground manifesting as non-duality.
- Unceasing method is the ground manifesting as freedom from limitations.
- The purity of pristine wisdom is the gate to perfection.
- Unceasing energ is the gate to impure cyclic life.
- These eight are precious Cintaman wish-fulfilling jewels.
These eight are also known as the 'Eight doors of spontaneous presence' (Tibetan: ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ཀྱི་སྒོ་བརྒྱད་, Wylie: lhun grub kyi sgo brgyad):
- compassion/energy (Tibetan: ཐུགས་རྗེ་, Wylie: thugs rje),
- lights (Tibetan: འོད་, Wylie: 'od),
- kayas (Tibetan: སྐུ་, Wylie: sku),
- wisdom, (Tibetan: ཡེ་ཤེས་, Wylie: ye shes),
- nonduality (Tibetan: གཉིས་མེད་, Wylie: gnyis med),
- freedom from extremes (Tibetan: མཐའ་གྲོལ་, Wylie: mtha' grol),
- the impure gate of samsara (Tibetan: མ་དག་པ་འཁོར་བའི་སྒོ་, Wylie: ma dag pa 'khor ba'i sgo), and
- the pure gate of wisdom (Tibetan: དག་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་སྒོ་, Wylie: dag pa ye shes kyi sgo).
Primary resources
- Bkra shis mdzes ldan chen po'i rgyud in Wylie @ Wikisource
- བཀྲ་ཤིས་མཛེས་ལྡན་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད in Tibetan Script (Uchen) Unicode @ Wikisource
