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'''Reverberation of Sound''' (Tib. སྒྲ་ཐལ་འགྱུར་, ''Dra Talgyur''; [[Wyl.]] ''sgra thal 'gyur'') is the root [[Dzogchen]] [[tantra]] among the [[Seventeen Tantras]] of the [[category of pith instructions]] (Mengak-de). This tantra explains how to attain the level of [[nirmanakaya]] and how to accomplish the welfare of others through practices related to sound.
'''Reverberation of Sound''' or, probably better, Word-Transcending, (Tib. སྒྲ་ཐལ་འགྱུར་, ''Dra Talgyur'', [[Wyl.]] ''sgra thal 'gyur'') is the root [[Dzogchen]] [[tantra]] among the [[Seventeen Tantras]] of the [[category of pith instructions]] (Mengak-de). This tantra explains how to attain the level of [[nirmanakaya]] and how to accomplish the welfare of others through practices related to sound.


==Tibetan Text==
==Tibetan Text==
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==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==
*Penetration of Sound
*Penetration of Sound
*Word-Transcending (Padmakara)


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==

Latest revision as of 13:48, 24 July 2025

Reverberation of Sound or, probably better, Word-Transcending, (Tib. སྒྲ་ཐལ་འགྱུར་, Dra Talgyur, Wyl. sgra thal 'gyur) is the root Dzogchen tantra among the Seventeen Tantras of the category of pith instructions (Mengak-de). This tantra explains how to attain the level of nirmanakaya and how to accomplish the welfare of others through practices related to sound.

Tibetan Text

Commentaries

  • Vimalamitra, སྒྲ་ཐལ་འགྱུར་རྒྱུད་འགྲེལ་སྒྲོན་མ་སྣང་བྱེད་, sgra thal 'gyur rtsa rgyud 'grel sgron ma snang byed
སྒྲ་ཐལ་འགྱུར་རྒྱུད་འགྲེལ་སྒྲོན་མ་སྣང་བྱེད་, sgra thal 'gyur rtsa rgyud 'grel sgron ma snang byed

Alternative Translations

  • Penetration of Sound
  • Word-Transcending (Padmakara)

Further Reading

  • Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, 'The Dzogchen Scriptures' in Quintessential Dzogchen, edited by Erik Pema Kunsang and Marcia Binder Schmidt, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2006