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| − | "[[The Posthumous Teachings of the Vidyadhara]]" ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|རིག་འཛིན་གྱི་འདས་རྗེས}}, Wylie: [[rig 'dzin gyi 'das-rjes]]) are found in the [[Vima Nyingtik]]. These are the last testaments of the early [[vidyadharas]]: [[Garab Dorje]], [[Manjushrimitra]], [[Shri Singha]] and [[Jnanasutra]]. These testaments are post-humous as they were delivered by the [[vidhyadhara]] to their {{Wiki|senior}} [[disciple]] from within a [[thigle]] of the [[Five Pure Lights]] in their [[Rainbow Body of Light]]. In this [[tradition]], the [[thigle]] is understood to be comparable to a [[pure]] [[dimension]] or [[mandala]]. These were first compiled by [[Vimalamitra]] in his five series (which consisted of the series of: [[Golden Letters]], [[Copper Letters]], [[Variegated Letters]], [[Conch Shell Letters]] and [[Turquoise Letters]]). These posthumous [[teaching]] belong to the series of the "[[Golden Letters]]" ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|གསེར་ཡིག་ཅན}}, Wylie: [[gser yig can]]). | + | "[[The Posthumous Teachings of the Vidyadhara]]" ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[རིག་འཛིན་གྱི་འདས་རྗེས]]}}, Wylie: [[rig 'dzin gyi 'das-rjes]]) are found in the [[Vima Nyingtik]]. These are the last testaments of the early [[vidyadharas]]: [[Garab Dorje]], [[Manjushrimitra]], [[Shri Singha]] and [[Jnanasutra]]. These testaments are post-humous as they were delivered by the [[vidhyadhara]] to their {{Wiki|senior}} [[disciple]] from within a [[thigle]] of the [[Five Pure Lights]] in their [[Rainbow Body of Light]]. In this [[tradition]], the [[thigle]] is understood to be comparable to a [[pure]] [[dimension]] or [[mandala]]. These were first compiled by [[Vimalamitra]] in his five series (which consisted of the series of: [[Golden Letters]], [[Copper Letters]], [[Variegated Letters]], [[Conch Shell Letters]] and [[Turquoise Letters]]). These posthumous [[teaching]] belong to the series of the "[[Golden Letters]]" ([[Tibetan]]: {{BigTibetan|[[གསེར་ཡིག་ཅན]]}}, Wylie: [[gser yig can]]). |
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Latest revision as of 05:29, 9 October 2013
"The Posthumous Teachings of the Vidyadhara" (Tibetan: རིག་འཛིན་གྱི་འདས་རྗེས, Wylie: rig 'dzin gyi 'das-rjes) are found in the Vima Nyingtik. These are the last testaments of the early vidyadharas: Garab Dorje, Manjushrimitra, Shri Singha and Jnanasutra. These testaments are post-humous as they were delivered by the vidhyadhara to their senior disciple from within a thigle of the Five Pure Lights in their Rainbow Body of Light. In this tradition, the thigle is understood to be comparable to a pure dimension or mandala. These were first compiled by Vimalamitra in his five series (which consisted of the series of: Golden Letters, Copper Letters, Variegated Letters, Conch Shell Letters and Turquoise Letters). These posthumous teaching belong to the series of the "Golden Letters" (Tibetan: གསེར་ཡིག་ཅན, Wylie: gser yig can).
