Self-arising Primordial Awareness
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Self- Arising Primordial Awareness (Tibetan: རིག་པ་རང་ཤར་, Wylie: rig pa rang shar) is one of the Seventeen tantras of Dzogchen Upadesha.[1]
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In the Lungi Terdzö (Wylie: lung gi gter mdzod) the prose autocommentary by Longchenpa (1308 – 1364 or possibly 1369) to his Chöying Dzö (Wylie: chos dbyings mdzod) -- which are numbered amongst the Seven Treasuries (Wylie: mdzod chen bdun) -- the following embedded quotation from this Tantra has been rendered into English by Barron, et al. (2001: p. 9) and the Wylie has been secured from Wikisource and interspersed and embedded in the English gloss for probity:
Within the essence of ultimate truth, [yang dag don gyi ngo bo la]
there is no Buddha or ordinary being. [sangs rgyas dang ni sems can med]
Since awareness cannot be reified, it is empty. [rig pa 'dzin pa med pas stong]
Given that it does not dwell in emptiness, [stong pa nyid la me gnas na]
it abides in its own state of supreme bliss. [rang gi bde chen sa la gnas]
The majestic ruler of all buddhas [sangs rgyas kun gyi rje btsan pa]
is understood to be one's own awareness. [rang gi rig pa shes par bya]
This monarch, naturally manifests awareness, [rang snang rig pa'i rgyal po nyid]
is present in everyone, but no one realizes it. [kun la yod de kun gyis rtog pa med][2][3]
Primary resources
- Rig pa rang shar chen po'i rgyud @ Wikisource in Wylie
- Rig pa rang shar chen po'i rgyud @ Wikisource in Uchen (Tibetan Script), Unicode
Notes
- ↑ Source: [1] (accessed: Thursday March 25, 2010)
- ↑ Longchenpa (author, compilor); Barron, Richard (translator, annotator) (2001). A Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission (autocommentary on Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena). Padma Publishing, p.9.
- ↑ 'Rig pa rang shar chen po'i rgyud'. Source: [2] (accessed: Monday April 5, 2010)