Wellsprings of the Great Perfection

(2:1) pp. 114- 120 "The 12 Dzogchen Buddha-s (excerpt from the Heart-Essence of Vimalamitra)"

p.	#	world	teacher	teaching	retinue	lifespan, in years
115	1st	perfect-palace waterlily-flower in realm of Abundant Delight	Great Vajradhara as Youth of Inconceivable Sublime Light	root-tantra, compiled by caelestial youth Mighty Bringer of joy & divine youth Brilliant Sun	1002 buddha-s	a-samkhyeya
116	2nd	Saha	Youth of Immutable Light	5 tantra-s (body, speech, mind, quality, activity): in language of 5-tufted Visnu	2 laksa-s of dakini-s	10 laksa-s
	3rd	Mass of Light composed of warmth & of moisture	Gentle Splendor Protector against Fear	Churning the Depths of Samsara; Peafowl with Entwined Necks; Glorious Tantra of the Resolution of the 4 Elements : in the language of 3-tufted Garuda	6 laksa-s of bodhisattva-s	1 laksa
	4th	place of the material womb	Youth Playful Grace	11 tantra-s (5 of mind + 6 branch-tantras)	5,000 yaksa-s & cliff-dwelling raksa-s	80,000
116-7	5th	Healing Herb Garden of Youth	Vajra-dhara the 6th	the 6 paramita-s	the 7 successive buddha-s	70,000
117	6th	Blazing Fire Mountain in charnel-ground Delighting in the Great Secret	Great Powerful Warrior Youth	father-tantra-s & mother-tantra-s	7 bodhi-sattva-s	60,000
	7th	Raksa Sound of Rulu	Wrathful Sage King	10 Tantra-s for Turning the Rough-Minded	1 koti of raksa-s	10,000
	8th	Vulture Peak Mountain	Sublime Golden Light	Vinaya in 10,000 sections	many s`ravaka-s	5,000
117-9	9th	at tree of enlightenment within palace of Complete Victory in land of Turquoise-Browed Sog-po-s	Lovingly Playful Wisdom	7 Studded Tantra-s	bodhi-sattva-s on the 8th bhumi	1,000
119	10th	Vulture Peak	Kas`yapa the Elder	Kriya & Anu-yoga in 75,000 parts	7 arhant-s	500
	11th	place of the Vajra Throne	Truly Perfected Father King	definitive meaning	lords of the 3 families	300
	12th	An-atha-pinda-da’s pleasure grove	S`akyamuni	Dharma-wheel turned 12 times	4 groups	100

p. 422, n. 28 the 7 bodhi-sattva-s (retinue of 5^th teacher) are :

• Vigorous Cloud
• Powerful Elephant
• Delightful Youth
• Eminent Sama-adhi
• Jewel-Bearer
• Vajra-Cutter
• Sun-Circle

meanings

p.
119	"times" = "changelessness"
	"cleared" = "free of karmic ... obscurations"
	"perfected" = ‘transcended meeting and parting"
120	"mind" = "primordially free"
	"transmission" = "free from omission and [from] duplication"

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p. 121 biography (as dictated by Padmasambhava) of Vimalamitra

The king Dharma-as`oka had a daughter Dharma-bodhi :

"Once, while sleeping in a flower garden, she dreamed that ...

white man came and anointed her ... the liquid passed down through the crown of her head ...

After twenty-one days, ... she gave birth to a baby boy. ...

He ... was given the name Vimalamitra".

(2:2) pp. 122-151 "Seven Segments to Establish the Great History (another excerpt from the Heart-Essence of Vimalamitra").

p.
124-5	The district Dhana-kos`a, in the country of Uddiyana, "was surrounded by sandalwood forests and inhabited by the type of animal known as kosana [‘rending’], whose bodies are human with bear-like faces and whose claws are ... iron spikes."
125	The women would tied their hair in two knots, one at the front and one at the back and embellish it with ... bone ornaments.
	Su-dharma (daughter of this country’s king titled Uparaja and of his queen Radiant Light), while asleep "in a grass hut on the island known as Covered with Golden Sand, ... dreamt that a white man shaped out of precious crystal ... placed a crystal vase at the crown of her head ..." When she awoke, her attendant the dakini Serene Purna interpreted the dream to mean that she would give birth.
127	This boy-child, at the age of seven, astounded the erudite with his wisdom.
128	To him were given 4 names : Praj~na-bhava, Pra-he[la]-vajra [/pra-hela/ ‘playful’], Resurrected Ash-Colored One, Serene Resurrected One.
	He taught, on mt. Malaya, the Great Perfection in 64 laks.a-s of sections,
129	at the requaest of Blissful World Taste (the vajra-dhatu dakini "with three faces, wearing tiger’s skin, her four arms holding a parasol of peacock feathers, and riding tigers and lions"); and of Yellow Bliss-Giver of Boundless Qualities (a dakini "riding a dragon, holding a garland of lightning-bolts ...").
	"five miles northeast of the Vajra throne ... the great charnel ground Cool Grove ... has ... in its center ... the glorious Stupa of the Descent from Heaven made from copper with gilded wheels ... To the northeast of this charnel ground was a wishfulfilling tree Bhisala ... There the mundane celestial being Mighty Bringer of Joy – riding on a black tiger, holding a trident in his hand and wearing a long cape of red silk -- ... lived together with a retinue of ten million."
130	There, were various d.akini-s, some each : "issuing rays of sunlight from their eyes; ... emitting thunderclaps from their mouths wile riding on buffalos; ... riding lions, raising human corpses in their hands; ... eating entrails while riding on garuda-s; ... carrying corpses on spears and riding on jackals; ... Similarly, others were raising their own decapitated heads in their hands; ... had torn their own hearts out and were holding it in their hands; ... had cut open their bodies and were holding up their entrails to be eaten".
132	"the great Sosadvipa charnel ground situated one league to the west of the Vajra Throne ... in its center was a self-appeared stupa ... It had wheels and a coral parasol and was made from precious silver. ... There were also peculiar mundane gods ... living to the southwest. ... Among the mundane gods were Ananda Kumara whose face was that of a lion ... His body was decoarated with garlands made from skulls and draped with a cloth of black silk. With a retinue of one hundred thousand slayer mamo-s, he was riding an ox ...
	There, were various d.akini-s, some each : "riding lions with their hair hanging loose, raising up victory banners of nine stacked skulls. ... riding on flacks of birds, holding banners of lion skin. ... had one body but eleven heads and were eating from entrails,
133	... black women brandishing their braided hair while emitting jackals from their mouths. ... had human bodies but with wings and ... were hurling down rainstorms ... while raising banners of tiger skin in their hands. ... tearing the upper part of their bodies from the lower, and tearing out their lungs and heart. ... cutting off their own limbs and tossing them in all directions."
	Meanwhile in the region in China known as Sos.a-dvipa (So-sa glin ‘salty island’) [or else as Kos`a-dvipa (p. 422, n. 40)], "the householder Virtuous One and his wife Wise Light had a son known as S`ri Simha who ... took birth in the city called Black S^o-Am Jom. ... he studied ... with the Chinese master Hastibhala under the Tree of Enlightenment in China".
134	Having journeyed, mounted on a black camel toward the city of Golden Sanctuary to the west of the Tree of Enlightenment, and proceeded thence eastwardly in China to "the Five-Peaked Mountain, Wu Tai-shan," S`ri Simha furthermore studied Secret Mantra for 7 years under the low-caste master Bhela-kirti, before (at the instance of Avalokita-is`vara) travelling for 9 nychthemera, "one cubit above and not touching the ground," to meet with Manjusrimitra at Sosadvipa.
135	From an arm (of his transfigured guru Manjusrimitra) extended out of a cloud, S`ri Simha received in a 1-inch casket containing a text "written with one hundred and one [varieties of] gems on paper composed of five types of precious substance."
	Having been taught the Brilliant Essence of Gold by Manjusrimitra re-incarnate, "On Mount Mass of Cane in the charnel ground known as Fragrant Grass, Aryadeva awakened to true and complete enlightenment while his material body vanished."
137	In accordance with instruction imparted to him (by the dakini Manifest Adornment) in his dream, S`ri Simha concealed, within a copper box beneath the balcony in the Auspicious 10,000 Gates Temple at the Tree of Enlightenment in China, the Secret Mantra teachings brought (by Manjusrimitra) from beneath the Vajra Throne.
	"the Cooling charnel ground in China ... was encircled by karavira trees, and within that there were groves of cane and reed. In the middle of this ... the d.akini-s were ... flying through the sky ... blowing horns ... Amidst all this was a mansion of piled skulls, ... and at the base were naga maidens bathing. Here S`ri Simha ... sat ... on an elephant throne and upon a celestial visnu stripped naked."
	"in Elephant Forest in the western part of India, ... the householder Blissful Wheel and his wife Bright Spirit had a son by the name Vimalamitra. And, in the city by the name Kamalas`ila in the eastern part of India, the low caste S`anti Lag-pa and his wife Virtuous Mind had a son who became known as Jnanasutra." [[[Jnanasutra]] = naga-king Nanda’s incarnation Naga-raja Patrin (‘possessing a goblet’), who studied the Mind Section under king Hastin [‘elephant’] and princess Pra-rani (p. 422, n. 42)]
138	"They [[[Vimalamitra]] & Jnanasutra] had a karmic connection from a previous rebirth, since they had been born as sons of the brahmin Sattva {cf. Sattva Yoga}, and therefore became good friends."
140	In accordance with instructions imparted to him (by the dakini Noble Kindness in the form of a "woman carrying a water pot on her back"), Jn~ana-sutra at the 10,000 Gates, from a balcony to the northeast, "saw a creature with the head of a lion, the neck of a peacock and the head of a scorpion." This was the dakini Cari, who then introduced him to S`ri Simha.
141	This composite animal was the d.akini Cari, who then introduced him to his master S`ri Simha.
142	S`ri Simha "would occasionally engage in the courageous conduct of retaining [holding] the breath. Occasionally he would perform the special conduct of riding on a tiger of a buffalo." S`ri Simha "was invited by Resplendent Giving, the king of Li, so he went there on a six-legged white lioness," and while gone toward Li was tranfigured "amidst a mass of light and all the sky resounded with endless harmonies in the most melodious ways. The whole earth was quaking, trembling and shaking, and was covered with boundless heaps of flowers of
143	gold, silver and other types." Then, when S`ri Simha’s testament the Seven Spikes fell (from the sky) into the palm of Jnanasutra’s hand, a (disembodied) voice instructed of whither to wend.
	"the Bhasing charnel ground in India ... lies far to the east of the Vajra throne. To its north is a black mountain that resembles a sleeping elephant with water flowing from its mouth. To its south is a mountain that resembles a yellow tiger standing upright, fragrant with the scent of gors`ikha sandalwood. To its west is a cliff that looks like a lion leaping into the sky, which as the nest of a garud.a bird. To the east is a li tree resembling the head of a brahma god ... In the center of this charnel ground is the Stupa of Perfect Merit cast from precious copper and iron. It life-pillar is made from snake-essence sandalwood ... On the ledges are painted layered wheels of azurite gemstones. ...
144	On the last ledge are simha, the king of trees, extending into all directions. The interwoven branches of these trees are connected by garlands and pendants resembling turquoise cords. ... Above them countless divine maidens make circumambulations."
	"Half a league direct south is a crystal mansion ... Here dwells the black-colored Time-Line Lord [Lady] of the Dead, tossing her mane, clenching her fangs. With a huge belly and heaven-turned eyes, she is surrounded by a thousand mundane mamos. Above there dwells Dhari the Divine Maiden, the one who sets the world in motion. She is red, naked and riding a donkey. Her bloody braids cover the earth and smoke pours from her eyes. Flames spring from her mouth and ... she is surrounded by a retinue of eight hundred maras. ... In the east is the dark brown Learned Splendid Wisdom with five faces who rides a garud.a and ... Her braided hair coiling upward is fully enclosed in garlands of skulls. ... She wears the attire of the charnel ground and is surrounded by a retinue of one thousand pacifying dakinis. To the south is the d.akini Protective mind of yellow color. With one face and two arms, she rides a ganapati. Her terrifying, naked form has wings of turquoise and sapphire. ... Mouth agape, she glares with bulging eyes, and is surrounded by a thousand enriching dakinis.
145	... to the west is the Great Blaze who is red and naked, with captivating hair. ... She rides on an antelope and is surrounded by a retinue of one thousand d.akinis of the magnetizing family. To the North is Ever-Excellent of green color, with free-flowing hair. Her right hand holds and owl and her left raises a falcon. She rides a wolf surrounded by one thousand d.akinis of the karma family."
	"At this time, Vimalamitra was living in the Smaller charnel ground, ... riding a blue buffalo ... From the sky he heard the voice of the dakini Splendid Wisdom" instructing him to "go to the great Bhasing charnel ground." There, Jn~ana-sutra "emitted rays of light from the curl of hair between his eyes, extending nine hundred and ninety-five fathoms."
146	"Jn~anasutra dissolved his material body ..., departing with no physical remains left behind, and the sky was filled with lights."
147	"Vimalamitra remained ... in the city of Bhirya to the west ... Later ... living in the great charnel ground known as Brilliant ... Vimalamitra made three copies of the manuscripts of the supreme secrets : one set he concealed on the island Covered with Golden Sand, in the land of Uddiyana, one set within the craggy cave known as Suvarn.advipa in Kas`mir, and one set he placed in that charnel ground to serve as an object of veneration for the dakinis."

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(2:4) pp. 156-160 "Shri Singha Confers the Eighteen Dzogchen Tantras".

p. 158 S`ri Simha bestowed upon Padmasambhava :

	the text	for
	Heart Essence of the Dakini-s	instruction
	sGra Thal->gyur Root-Tantra[, to which are appended the 17 Tantra-s of Innermost Luminosity:-]
1.	Tantra beyond Letters	basis
2.	Tantra of Shining Relics	signs
3.	Tantra of Self-Existing Perfection	empowerment
4.	Tantra of Point-out Instructions
5.	Blazing Lamp Tantra
6.	Tantra of Self-Manifest Awareness
7.	Tantra of the Mind-Mirror	Vajrasattva
8.	Tantra of Piled Gems
9.	Tantra of the Union of Sun and Moon
10.	Tantra of Studded Jewels
11.	Tantra of Self-Liberated Awareness
12.	Pearl Garland Tantra
13.	Tantra of the Heart-Mirror	Samantabhadra
14.	Tantra of Graceful Auspiciousness
15.	Tantra of the Perfected Lion
16.	Tantra of the 6 Sphaeres
17.	Tantra of the Sun of the Brilliant Expanse

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(2:8) pp. 179-186 "The Jewel Garland Records".

p. 182 2 types of major emanations from the Densely-Arrayed realms of self-display in this Saha-world

• supreme emanations of blessings

• sublime emanations of wisdom

p. 182 the 3 types of supreme emanations of blessings

1. bodily form made from 101 pretious substances
2. great scripture Single Child of the Doctrine
3. vajra of dharmata that fitteth into the hand of the 1st human beings

pp. 184-186 the 12 sublime emanations of wisdom

p.	in the place __	there appeared __
184-5	Abundant Delight	Youth of Inconceivable Sublime Light, teacher of the 17 Tantra-s of Innermost Luminosity
185	Saha world	Youth of Immutable Light
	Mass of Light	Protector against Fear
	Manifest Womb of Passionate Elements	Youth Playful Grace
	Healing Garden of Youth on the southern side of mt. Su-meru	Vajradhara
186	the charnel ground Delighting in the Great Secret	Powerful Warrior Youth
	Raksa Sound of RULU	Wrathful Sage King
	Vulture Peak mountain	Sublime Golden Light
	Turquoise-Browed Sog-po	Lovingly Playful Wisdom
	Vulture Peak mountain [again!]	Kas`yapa the Elder
	Vajra Throne	Truly Perfected King
	Kapila-vastu	S`akya-muni

p. 186 Vajra-pan.i taught to the vidya-dhara-s in the charnel ground Blazing Fire Mountain on the northern side of mt. Su-meru {/pan.i/ is ‘miser’, a name appropriate for a denizen on the northern side of mt. Su-meru, the site of the cities of Ku-vera, god of the rich}

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(2:9) pp. 188-206 "Illuminating Sunlight to Reveal the Treasury of the Pretious Dharma History"

p. 189 mind-transmission through the Conquerors [Jina-s]

p.	"__-kaya"!teaching
189	Sva-bhavika-	by revealing natural luminosity
	Dharma-	natural liberation in actuality through inspired resplendence
	Sam-bhoga-	through his own identity
	Guhya-	method of great bliss
190	Nir-mana-	by proclaiming throughout the realms of gods

pp. 190-191 the 4 dreams by [the Guhya-kaya] A-nanda-Garbha nicknamed "Noble Spirit" (he was eldest of the 501 sons of the deva Bhadra-pala) on the plateau of the 33 deva-s

p.	dream
190-1	1st – "rays of light from all the buddhas radiated into the ten directions after which the light rays and the six Munis encircled ... and finally dissolved into the crown of his head."
191	2nd – "he swallowed Brahma, Vis.n.u and Pas`upati in one gulp."
Example	3rd – "the son and moon rose in the sky, and he took them both in his hands and illuminated all worlds with their light."
Example	4th – "nectar showered down from the cloud-covered sky ... so that sprouts, flowers and jewel-like fruits simultaneously ripened."

pp. 192-195 realms of Vajrasattva

p.	dir.	buddhafield	Tatha-gata	symbol of the mind
192	centre		"emanated Vajrapani from his own heart centre who raised	a wheel of self-radiating jewels"
193	east	Perfectly Subjugating Vajra	Vajra Secret [Vajra-guhya]	vajra
193 & 195	south	Jewel Light	Ratna-pada	ornament of dag-s`aka
195	west	Waterlily Mound	Waterlily Light	waterlily
	north	Perfect Accomplishment	Perfected Brilliance

p. 197 empowerments conferred and instructions imparted (in the hall holding the life-pillar nade of a 9-pronged vajra, on the top floor of the Palace of Victory on the plateau of the 33 deva-s) by Vajra-pan.i to Noble Spirit

empowerment	instruction
Perfect Royal Vase	10 Miraculous Statements
3-fold Spontaneous Praesence	Encountering the 3 Kaya-s
Great Sphaere	Unchanging Mind Essence
Changeless Steadiness	Insight during Daily Activities
Immediacy of Awareness	Identifying Original Wakefulness
Non-dual Mingling	Great Seal [maha-mudra]
Vajra Statement	Regent Nomination

Pra-he[la]-vajra & disciple Man~ju-s`ri-mitra

p.
199	The princess-nun Paran.i [‘breakfast; perusal’] "While facing east ... saw a golden swan, who in fact was Vajrapani ... The swan, came flying through the sky accompanied by 4 other swans. ... the bird the Lord of Secrets had miraculously created, touched his beak three times to the princess ... The swan took flight". {cf. impraegnation of the goddess Nemesis by a divine swan (GM 62.a).}
200	"A nine-pronged vajra set with a assortment of the finest gemstones now emerged from the princess’s heart ... and became a boy-child ... Prahe[la]vajra", who is thus (pp. 202 & 190) a nirmana-kaya.
	"Vajrapani summoned the three bearers [S`aka-putrin, Naga-putrin, and Guhya-putrin – 3 sons of Upa-raja (p. 423, n. 64)] from Dams`o: [dam-s`od (p. 429)] Haven charnel ground to the southwest, and ... he entrusted them with all the tantras in completeness – the Twenty Thousand Sections of the Ninefold Space".
202	"an emanation of noble Man~jus`ri ... was born to the brahmin Glorious Sustainer of Bliss as the father and to the brahmini Kuhana [‘hypocrisy’, a mouse-goddess] as the mother. ... He was named Siddhi-garbha [‘success-embryo’] the Brahmin, as well as Samvaragarbha [‘magic-embryo’]." {‘embryo’-names are allusions to the tatha-garbha, with reminiscences of the [Vaidik] Hiranya-garbha (‘gold-embryo’), of rasa-ayan.a and even of Daoist al-chemy}
203	"Siddhigarbha, the senior prince of Rajahasti and some other, seven in all {cf. the "transmigrations of the 7 brahmin-s" in the Puran.a-s}, ... arrived at the Vajra Haven Cave where they met ... Prahevajra".

GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.

p. 206 the 3 cycles of teachings derived from Man~ju-s`ri-mitra [‘kinsman of Man~ju-s`ri’, ordination-name of Siddhi-guhya (p. 204)]

__ Cycle	for __
Brahmin’s	distinguishing
King’s	resolving
Instruction	revealing self-liberation

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Erik Pema Kunsang (transl.) : Wellsprings of the Great Perfection. Rangjung Yeshe Publ., Hong Kong, 2006. pp. 112-206 = "Part II. From Early Treasure Masters"

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