Wylie:Bum dbang dang 'brel ba'i nyams len thun mong yid bzhin nor bu'i khrid yig rje mi las mdzad pa
བུམ་དབང་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ཉམས་ལེན་ཐུན་མོང་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུའི་ཁྲིད་ཡིག་རྗེ་མི་ལས་མཛད་པ་
bum dbang dang 'brel ba'i nyams len thun mong yid bzhin nor bu'i khrid yig rje mi las mdzad pa
The Instruction Manual for the Shared Wish-Fulfilling Gems: The Practices Connected with the Vase Abhiṣeka from the Glorious Saṃvara Aural Transmission
The Instruction Manual for the Shared Wish-Fulfilling Gems is the first in a series of texts that amplify the Wish-Fulfilling Gems of the Saṃvara Aural Transmission, which are presented in the Vajra Verses and Short Text. This and the following text, The Instruction Manual on the Six Dharmas, Which Liberate through the Upper Door, are the longest texts in this collection authored by Milarepa and are possibly the longest texts authored by Milarepa. Along with a third text in The Treasury by Milarepa, Instructions Pointing Out the Bardos,[1] they are teachings Milarepa entrusted to Rechungpa, which he wrote at the hermitage of Drö Puk in Nyanang (or Nyanam),[2] and signed “by Dorje Gyaltsen with love,” using the name Marpa gave him when conferring upon him lay and bodhisattva vows.[3]
In this text, Milarepa begins with a brief account of the transmission from Vajradhara to Jñānaḍākinī, Tilopa, Nāropa, and Marpa, incorporating some often-quoted verses and the permission he received from Vajrayoginī to bestow these teachings on Rechungpa.[4] He then states that the Aural Transmission teachings are divided into three parts: the characteristics of the ācāryas, the characteristics of the disciples, and the abiding state of the dharma. This differs slightly from the approach found in later presentations (such as the topical outline in Jadrel Ritröpa Tsultrim Palden’s Short Text commentary) that begin with the threefold division into the Wish-Fulfilling Gems of the Lineage, Wish-Fulfilling Gems of the Maturing Path, and Wish-Fulfilling Gems of the Liberating Path. Milarepa lists those three headings under his third part, the abiding state of the dharma.
The following is an overview of Milarepa’s presentation of The Abiding State of the Dharma with notes on the corresponding lines in the Vajra Verses and Short Text and any corresponding texts in The Treasury of Precious Instructions. Only the Shared Wish-Fulfilling Gems are explained in this text.
- Wish-Fulfilling Gems of the Lineage: The External Nirmāṇakāya Instructions*[5]
- Wish-Fulfilling Gems of the Maturing Path: The Inner Saṃbhogakāya Instructions†[6]
- Wish-Fulfilling Gems of the Liberating Path: The Secret Dharmakāya Instructions‡[7]
- Shared Wish-Fulfilling Gems: Practices Connected to the Vase Abhiṣeka§[8]
- The Sovereigns: Unchanging Dharmatā
- The Sādhana of the King-Like Male Consort¶[9]
- The Sādhana of the Queen-Like Female Consort: Ten Yogas
- The yoga of immeasurable aspirations
- Guru yoga
- Deity meditation
- Purifying the worldly realms
- Gathering the heroes and heroines
- Vajra repetition with the breath
- Vajra repetition with speech
- The perfection process
- The mixings and equalizing tastes
- Tormas
- The Sādhana of the Prince-Like Son
- The ministers: Three types of actions
- Guru yoga
- Self-entered samādhi abhiṣekas
- Recitation of the hundred-syllable mantra
- The people: The conducive activities
- The yoga of eating food
- The yoga of wearing clothes
- The yoga of sleeping
- The yoga of going, sitting, and circumambulating
- The yoga of bathing
- The yoga of supplications and maṇḍala offerings
- The yoga of amassing the accumulations and dharma activities
- The Sovereigns: Unchanging Dharmatā
- Shared Wish-Fulfilling Gems: Practices Connected to the Vase Abhiṣeka§[8]
- Samaya Wish-Fulfilling Gems: Connected to all Four Abhiṣekas*[10]
- Abiding-State Wish-Fulfilling Gems: Connected to the Three Superior
- Abhiṣekas
- Six Dharmas: Practices Connected to the Secret Abhiṣeka†[11]
- Great Bliss: Practices Connected to the Prajñājñāna Abhiṣeka‡[12]
- Mahāmudrā, the Illumination of Wisdom: Practices Connected to the Word Abhiṣeka§[13]
- Instructions on the bardos¶[14]
- Dispelling hindrances**[15]
- Instructions for those of an instantaneous path: Transforming all activities into accumulations††[16]
Transmission lineage received by Jamgön Kongtrul. It is the same as previously stated for The Short Text.[17]
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- Translator's notes
- Note from Ringu Tulku
- The Precious General Practice Instructions Related to the Vase Empowerment Practices of Chakrasamvara Written by Milarepa.
- Other notes
- Genre from Richard Barron's Catalog
- Instruction manual
- Genre from dkar chag
- grol byed khrid dngos
- BDRC Link
- VolumeI1CZ3969
- BDRC Content Information
- No note on contents
Information about Unicode Tibetan and the digitization of this text
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