Reverberation of Sound Tantra

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.

Tibetan Text

• རིན་པོ་ཆེ་འབྱུང་བར་བྱེད་པ་སྒྲ་ཐལ་འགྱུར་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད་, rin po che 'byung bar byed pa sgra thal 'gyur chen po'i rgyud

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