Wylie:Shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i man ngag bdud kyi gcod yul las nying tshom
ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་མན་ངག་བདུད་ཀྱི་གཅོད་ཡུལ་ལས་ཉིང་ཚོམ་
shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i man ngag bdud kyi gcod yul las nying tshom
The Essential Bundle on Severance
The Essential Bundle is the third of the “bundles,” attributed everywhere to Machik Lapdrön, and might be considered the innermost or secret version, as indicated by the word “essence” (nying). However, it seems rather to be a summation and a systematic presentation of what is in the other bundles; the title might have been translated as “The Essence of the Bundles.” Unlike the other two, it has a structural outline and uses scriptural citations to back up the main points. It even cites Machik herself, using the respectful “Lady Mother” (ma jo mo), which would be a highly unusual way for Machik to refer to herself. It appears, therefore, to be written by someone else, perhaps an early commentator such as Jamyang Gönpo.
- Other notes
- Genre from Richard Barron's Catalog
- Instruction manual
- Genre from dkar chag
- Yan lag gi chos, gcod yul skor
- BDRC Link
- http://tbrc.org/link?RID=W23605 VolumeI1CZ3976
- BDRC Content Information
- No note on contents
Information about Unicode Tibetan and the digitization of this text
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