Wylie:Rje btsun mi la'i phyag rgya chen po ye shes gsal byed kyi rtsa ba
རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལའི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡེ་ཤེས་གསལ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་རྩ་བ་
rje btsun mi la'i phyag rgya chen po ye shes gsal byed kyi rtsa ba
The Root Text for Mahāmudrā: The Illumination of Wisdom
The Root Text for Mahāmudrā: The Illumination of Wisdom, the first of several texts by Milarepa in this anthology, is a slightly longer prose version of the last section, or short text, included in the Three Cycles of Illumination and Other Instructions found later in this volume.[1] This text begins with verses that recount Milarepa’s lineage and way of practicing, as does the first section of the Three Cycles of Illumination—they are, in fact, almost identical.[2]
It may be that the use of the word “root” in the title here signifies that this text is the source text for other instructions with similar titles. Volume 8 of The Treasury of Precious Instructions contains two texts with similar titles: in the Rechung Aural Transmission, Mahāmudrā: The Illumination of Wisdom in the Saṃvara Aural Transmission[3] and, in the Ngamdzong Aural Transmission, Instructions That Are the Secret Pointing Out of Mahāmudrā: The Illumination of Wisdom.[4]
Transmission lineage received by Jamgön Kongtrul. Milarepa to Gampopa, and then the same as previously stated for the Ganges Mahāmudrā.[5]
- Other notes
- Genre from Richard Barron's Catalog
- Instruction manual
- Genre from dkar chag
- gzhung rtsa 'grel
- BDRC Link
- VolumeI1CZ3969
- 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.
