Wylie:Sgrub brgyud shing rta chen po brgyad kun 'dus kyi bla ma mchod pa'i cho ga byin rlabs dngos grub yon tan kun gyi 'byung gnas
སྒྲུབ་བརྒྱུད་ཤིང་རྟ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཀུན་འདུས་ཀྱི་བླ་མ་མཆོད་པའི་ཆོ་ག་བྱིན་རླབས་ ་ ་ ་
sgrub brgyud shing rta chen po brgyad kun 'dus kyi bla ma mchod pa'i cho ga byin rlabs dngos grub yon tan kun gyi 'byung gnas
The Source of All Blessings, Accomplishments, and Qualities: A Ritual for Venerating the Teachers Who Embody the Eight Great Chariots of the Practice Lineage
This section contains a single text, a sādhana, written by Jamgön Kongtrul himself, venerating the teachers of the Eight Great Chariots. It appears in the first volume of the 2002 Shechen edition of his Treasury of Extensive Teachings (rGya chen bka’ mdzod) and the second volume of the 1975–1976 Paro edition, but not in the Kundeling printing of the Palpung edition of The Treasury of Precious Instructions, nor does Kongtrul appear to mention it in his catalog. The colophon suggests that it was extracted from the (or a?) Treasury of Instructions (referred to simply as gdams mdzod, presumably a contraction for the sake of meter of gdams ngag rin po che’i mdzod), yet it is absent from the Palpung (Kundeling) edition of The Treasury of Precious Instructions. Did it form part of Kongtrul’s original Treasury of Precious Instructions and was it subsequently included in the Treasury of Extensive Teachings before being returned to the first collection? Its source is all the more mysterious for the fact that in all these editions, the colophon mentions the person who sponsored the printing, which would lead one to imagine that it might have been a stand-alone text at some point or was sponsored separately from the rest of the collection. Whatever the case, its inclusion in the Shechen edition immediately after the last of the fifteen volumes devoted to the eight principal lineages of Tibetan Buddhism could not be more appropriate. Far from being a “miscellaneous instruction” without any properly defined place in the other parts of the collection, it appears to have been inserted here as Kongtrul’s concluding homage to the masters of the lineages represented in the preceding volumes. This homage takes the form of a ritual of venerating the teacher (bla ma mchod pa), a genre based on the guru yoga or lama sādhana with expanded offering and praise and supplication sections. Kongtrul adapted a ritual veneration of the teacher written five centuries earlier by the Jonang translator Lodrö Palzang.[1] In the sādhana, the principal masters of the eight lineages are grouped around the central figure of Guru Padmasambhava as described in the visualization section, which is followed by a long and detailed offering section and lineage prayer.
- Translator's notes
- Note from Ringu Tulku
- The Offering to the Lama Practice of All the Eight Practice Lineages Called: "The Source of All the Blessing, Siddhis and Qualities".
- rje drung mchog gi sprul pa'i sku phrin las byams pa 'byung gnas (zhal snga nas)
- Based on a composition by grub dbang lo tsA ba blo gros dpal.
- Appended supplication by karma bkra shis chos 'phel.
- Other notes
- Genre from Richard Barron's Catalog
- Liturgy
- Genre from dkar chag
- khrid phran
- BDRC Link
- VolumeI1CZ3978
- 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.
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- Sgrub brgyud shing rta chen po brgyad kun 'dus kyi bla ma mchod pa'i cho ga byin rlabs dngos grub yon tan kun gyi 'byung gnas
- 'jam mgon kong sprul
- Karma bkra shis chos 'phel
- Tibetan texts
- Gdams ngag mdzod Volume 16
- Gdams ngag mdzod Shechen Printing
- Gdams ngag mdzod Catalog
- 'jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas pa'i sde