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<center><span style="font-size: 14pt">Introduction to ''[[:Category:Draft:Another Bundle on Severance|Another Bundle on Severance]]'' and ''[[:Category:Draft:Vajra Play: Questions and Answers on Severance|Vajra Play]]''</span></center><br> | <center><span style="font-size: 14pt">Introduction to ''[[:Category:Draft:Another Bundle on Severance|Another Bundle on Severance]]'' and ''[[:Category:Draft:Vajra Play: Questions and Answers on Severance|Vajra Play]]''</span></center><br> | ||
''Another Bundle'', attributed to Machik Lapdrön, takes the form of a dialogue or question and answer session, perhaps written down or remembered in verse by her son Gyalwa Döndrup, said in several sources to be the interlocutor. In the catalogue of ''The Treasury of Precious Instructions'', Kongtrul traces his transmission lineage back to him. "Another" or "further" bundle (''yang sthom'') indicates that it is another collection following the ''Great Bundle''. In ''The History of Pacification and Severance'', Khamnyön Dharma Senge calls ''Another Bundle'' "the esoteric instructions on that [''Great Bundle'']." (f. 68a). An alternate title that is given in the colophon is ''Another Bundle of Twenty-Five Instructions as Answers to Questions,'' shortened in certain other sources to ''Another Bundle of Twenty-Five''. However, one finds here twenty-eight questions, and I'm not sure if this is some kind of alternate Tibetan way of counting, or if the bundle tends to gain and lose questions with each reprint like a loose bunch of flowers. | ''Another Bundle'', attributed to Machik Lapdrön, takes the form of a dialogue or question and answer session, perhaps written down or remembered in verse by her son Gyalwa Döndrup, said in several sources to be the interlocutor. In the catalogue of ''The Treasury of Precious Instructions'', Kongtrul traces his transmission lineage back to him. "Another" or "further" bundle (''yang sthom'') indicates that it is another collection following the ''Great Bundle''. In ''The History of Pacification and Severance'', Khamnyön Dharma Senge calls ''Another Bundle'' "the esoteric instructions on that [''Great Bundle'']." (f. 68a). An alternate title that is given in the colophon is ''Another Bundle of Twenty-Five Instructions as Answers to Questions,'' shortened in certain other sources to ''Another Bundle of Twenty-Five''. However, one finds here twenty-eight questions, and I'm not sure if this is some kind of alternate Tibetan way of counting, or if the bundle tends to gain and lose questions with each reprint like a loose bunch of flowers. | ||
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Another example of this is ''Vajra Play'', appended to ''Another Bundle'' in the ''Treasury of Precious Instructions'', but not indicated in the table of contents nor in its catalogue, ''An Ocean of Auspicious Renown''. In fact I have not found reference to it in any source, nor any other edition. ''Vajra Play'' consists of eighteen questions, with their answers delivered in short and even cryptic prose. Only a few of the questions echo those in the other collections, and this set may have a different source. But we may never know. | Another example of this is ''Vajra Play'', appended to ''Another Bundle'' in the ''Treasury of Precious Instructions'', but not indicated in the table of contents nor in its catalogue, ''An Ocean of Auspicious Renown''. In fact I have not found reference to it in any source, nor any other edition. ''Vajra Play'' consists of eighteen questions, with their answers delivered in short and even cryptic prose. Only a few of the questions echo those in the other collections, and this set may have a different source. But we may never know. | ||
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