Wylie:Gcod yul zab mo'i khrid yig gnad don snying po
གཅོད་ཡུལ་ཟབ་མོའི་ཁྲིད་ཡིག་གནད་དོན་སྙིང་པོ་
gcod yul zab mo'i khrid yig gnad don snying po
Essence of the Vital Meaning: A Practice Manual of Profound Object-Severance
In this practice instruction Tāranātha clearly lays out the main teachings of Severance and the order in which to practice them. To actually utilize this text as a practice, however, one would need the liturgy that should accompany these explanations, called Supplication Liturgy for the Essence of the Vital Meaning: A Practice Manual of Profound Object Severance.[1] Kongtrul did not include that in this volume of the Treasury, perhaps because there were more recent liturgies from other lineage holders.
The Record of Teachings Received affirms that Kongtrul received the guidance or practice manual (khrid yig) “in the style of the transmission guidance (lung khrid) from the sacred writings of Venerable Kunga Drölchok and detailed guidance based on Venerable Jonang Tāranātha Rinpoche’s Essence of the Vital Meaning.”[2]
As is typical of this particular lineage that originated with Machik via Samten Özer, through Kunga Drölchok, Tāranātha, and on to Kongtrul himself, the main practices have the specific designations of “the meaning of the Mother” (yum don) and “severing the four devils in basic space” (bdud bzhi dbyings su gcod). The first is the direct instruction on the nature of mind according to the perfection of wisdom (that is, the Mother), and the second is how to enact and enhance that realization through coping with the problematic experiences of existence, called the four devils. Everything beyond that is considered auxiliary practice to be done as postmeditation activity. This important fact was often lost as the demon-feeding elements gained prominence, which is why Kongtrul emphasized it again and again.
- Translator's notes
- Note from Ringu Tulku
- The Instructions on Chod Called "The Essential Crucial Point".
- Notes on individuals related to text
- I can't find any information on bya bral rin chen bkra shis, who requested this text. His name is listed on the catalog page without an active link.
- Other notes
- Genre from Richard Barron's Catalog
- Instruction manual
- Genre from dkar chag
- yan lag gi chos
- BDRC Link
- VolumeI1CZ3976
- BDRC Content Information
- No note on contents
Information about Unicode Tibetan and the digitization of this text
As the only available unicode Tibetan text at the time, Nitartha International's version of the Paro Edition of the gdams ngag mdzod is provided here. However, note that it has not been thoroughly edited and that there may also be mistakes introduced through the conversion process. Eventually we will provide a fully edited version of the entire Shechen Edition, entered and edited multiple times by Pulahari Monastery in Nepal, but as of fall 2017 that project has not been finished. Note that the folio numbers that appear throughout were added by Nitartha Input Center at the time of input.
Provided by Nitartha International Document Input Center. Many thanks to Lama Tenam and Gerry Wiener for help with fonts and conversion.
