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+ | The [[Mirror of the Heart of Vajrasattva]] ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྙིང་གི་མེ་ལོང]]}}, Wylie: [[rdo rje sems dpa' snying gi me long]]) is numbered amongst the '[[Seventeen Tantras]] of [[Menngagde]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[མན་ངག་སྡེའི་རྒྱུད་བཅུ་བདུན]]}},Tib. [[dorje sempa nying gi melong]], Wylie: [[man ngag sde'i rgyud bcu bdun]]) within [[Dzogchen]] {{Wiki|discourse}} and is part of the textual support for the [[Vima Nyingtik]]. | ||
− | The Continuum of [[Vajrasattva]]'s Heart-Mirror conveys how the 'lamps' (Tibetan: སྒྲོན་མ, Wylie: sgron ma) are the self-display of awareness. It furthermore lists twenty-one pointing-out instructions appropriate for people with different propensities and proclivities along with four key points and practice instructions. | + | The {{Wiki|Continuum}} of [[Vajrasattva]]'s Heart-Mirror conveys how the 'lamps' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[སྒྲོན་མ]]}}, Wylie: [[sgron ma]]) are the self-display of [[awareness]]. It furthermore lists twenty-one pointing-out instructions appropriate for [[people]] with different propensities and proclivities along with four key points and practice instructions. |
− | 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. | + | 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, orthography and etymology== | + | ==Nomenclature, {{Wiki|orthography}} and {{Wiki|etymology}}== |
− | * 'The Mirror of the Heart of Vajrasattva' (Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྙིང་གི་མེ་ལོང, Wylie: rdo rje sems dpa' snying gi me long) | + | * '[[The Mirror of the Heart of Vajrasattva]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྙིང་གི་མེ་ལོང]]}}, Wylie: [[rdo rje sems dpa' snying gi me long]]) |
− | ==Mirror== | + | ==[[Mirror]]== |
− | The Melong is an important polyvalent symbol and potent teaching tool in Dzogchen. | + | The [[Melong]] is an important polyvalent [[symbol]] and potent [[teaching]] tool in [[Dzogchen]]. |
==English translations== | ==English translations== | ||
− | This tantra has not as yet has been completely rendered into English nor made generally available. | + | This [[tantra]] has not as yet has been completely rendered into English nor made generally available. |
− | The Seventeen Tantras are quoted extensively throughout [[Longchenpa]]'s (1308 - 1364?) '[[Nelug Dzö|The Precious Treasury of the Way of Abiding]]' (Tibetan: གནས་ལུགས་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད, Wylie: gnas lugs rin po che'i mdzod) rendered in English by [[Richard Barron]] and Padma Translation Committee (1998). | + | The [[Seventeen Tantras]] are quoted extensively throughout [[Longchenpa]]'s (1308 - 1364?) '[[Nelug Dzö|The Precious Treasury of the Way of Abiding]]' ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[གནས་ལུགས་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད]]}}, Wylie: [[gnas lugs rin po che'i mdzod]]) rendered in English by [[Richard Barron]] and [[Padma Translation Committee]] (1998). This work is one of [[Longchenpa]]'s [[Seven Treasuries]] and the [[Tibetan]] text in poor reproduction of the pecha has been graciously made available online by Dowman and [[E. Gene Smith]]. |
− | Barron et. al. (1998: p.136) render an embedded quotation of this tantra within their translation of Lonchepa's 'Way of Abiding' (Wylie: gnas lugs): | + | Barron et. al. (1998: p.136) render an embedded quotation of this [[tantra]] within their translation of [[Lonchepa's]] '[[Way of Abiding]]' (Wylie: [[gnas lugs]]): |
− | : "Understand all aspects of awareness to be free of ordinary consciousness, which involves concepts of identity. Similarly, bring this understanding to the point of understanding that all phenomena are unceasing. Bring the understanding of what is unceasing to the point of understanding that it manifests in any way whatsoever. Bring the understanding of what manifests in any way whatsoever to the point of understanding that it is unborn. Bring the understanding what is unborn to the point of understanding that it does not come and go. Bring the understanding of what does not come and go to the point of understanding that it is nondual. Bring the understanding of what is nondual to the point of understanding that it is absolutely free of limitations. Similarly, bring this understanding to the point of not conceptualizing or thinking about any phenomenon in any way. Bring this understanding of all phenomena to the point of experiencing their essence lucidly and without distraction." | + | : "Understand all aspects of [[awareness]] to be free of ordinary [[consciousness]], which involves [[Wikipedia:concept|concepts]] of [[Wikipedia:Identity (social science)|identity]]. Similarly, bring this [[understanding]] to the point of [[understanding]] that all [[phenomena]] are unceasing. Bring the [[understanding]] of what is unceasing to the point of [[understanding]] that it [[manifests]] in any way whatsoever. Bring the [[understanding]] of what [[manifests]] in any way whatsoever to the point of [[understanding]] that it is {{Wiki|unborn}}. Bring the [[understanding]] what is {{Wiki|unborn}} to the point of [[understanding]] that it does not come and go. Bring the [[understanding]] of what does not come and go to the point of [[understanding]] that it is [[nondual]]. Bring the [[understanding]] of what is [[nondual]] to the point of [[understanding]] that it is absolutely free of limitations. Similarly, bring this [[understanding]] to the point of not [[conceptualizing]] or [[thinking]] about any [[phenomenon]] in any way. Bring this [[understanding]] of all [[phenomena]] to the point of experiencing their [[essence]] lucidly and without {{Wiki|distraction}}." |
+ | ==Primary resources== | ||
+ | *[http://wikisource.org/wiki/Rdo_rje_sems_dpa'_snying_gi_me_long ''The Mirror of the Heart of Vajrasattva'' in Wylie @ Wikisource] | ||
+ | *[http://wikisource.org/wiki/རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྙིང་གི་མེ་ལོང་གི་རྒྱུད {{BigTibetan|རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྙིང་གི་མེ་ལོང་གི་རྒྱུད}} in Tibetan Script (Uchen) Unicode @ Wikisource] | ||
+ | {{SeeAtEnd|Seventeen tantras}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:32, 27 April 2014
The Mirror of the Heart of Vajrasattva (Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྙིང་གི་མེ་ལོང, Wylie: rdo rje sems dpa' snying gi me long) is numbered amongst the 'Seventeen Tantras of Menngagde' (Tibetan: མན་ངག་སྡེའི་རྒྱུད་བཅུ་བདུན,Tib. dorje sempa nying gi melong, Wylie: man ngag sde'i rgyud bcu bdun) within Dzogchen discourse and is part of the textual support for the Vima Nyingtik.
The Continuum of Vajrasattva's Heart-Mirror conveys how the 'lamps' (Tibetan: སྒྲོན་མ, Wylie: sgron ma) are the self-display of awareness. It furthermore lists twenty-one pointing-out instructions appropriate for people with different propensities and proclivities along with four key points and practice instructions.
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
- 'The Mirror of the Heart of Vajrasattva' (Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྙིང་གི་མེ་ལོང, Wylie: rdo rje sems dpa' snying gi me long)
Mirror
The Melong is an important polyvalent symbol and potent teaching tool in Dzogchen.
English translations
This tantra has not as yet has been completely rendered into English nor made generally available.
The Seventeen Tantras are quoted extensively throughout Longchenpa's (1308 - 1364?) 'The Precious Treasury of the Way of Abiding' (Tibetan: གནས་ལུགས་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད, Wylie: gnas lugs rin po che'i mdzod) rendered in English by Richard Barron and Padma Translation Committee (1998). This work is one of Longchenpa's Seven Treasuries and the Tibetan text in poor reproduction of the pecha has been graciously made available online by Dowman and E. Gene Smith.
Barron et. al. (1998: p.136) render an embedded quotation of this tantra within their translation of Lonchepa's 'Way of Abiding' (Wylie: gnas lugs):
- "Understand all aspects of awareness to be free of ordinary consciousness, which involves concepts of identity. Similarly, bring this understanding to the point of understanding that all phenomena are unceasing. Bring the understanding of what is unceasing to the point of understanding that it manifests in any way whatsoever. Bring the understanding of what manifests in any way whatsoever to the point of understanding that it is unborn. Bring the understanding what is unborn to the point of understanding that it does not come and go. Bring the understanding of what does not come and go to the point of understanding that it is nondual. Bring the understanding of what is nondual to the point of understanding that it is absolutely free of limitations. Similarly, bring this understanding to the point of not conceptualizing or thinking about any phenomenon in any way. Bring this understanding of all phenomena to the point of experiencing their essence lucidly and without distraction."
Primary resources
- The Mirror of the Heart of Vajrasattva in Wylie @ Wikisource
- རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྙིང་གི་མེ་ལོང་གི་རྒྱུད in Tibetan Script (Uchen) Unicode @ Wikisource