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'''[[Hevajra]] Tantra''' (ཀྱེ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་རྒྱུད་, ཀྱཻ་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱུད་, [[Wyl.]] ''kye rdo rje'i rgyud'' or ''kyai rdo rje rgyud'') — an important [[Mother tantra]] <ref>The [[Sakya]] tradition considers Hevajra to be a [[Non-dual Tantras|Non-dual Tantra]].</ref>, especially popular in the [[Sakya]] and [[Kagyü]] schools. | '''[[Hevajra]] Tantra''' (ཀྱེ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་རྒྱུད་, ཀྱཻ་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱུད་, [[Wyl.]] ''kye rdo rje'i rgyud'' or ''kyai rdo rje rgyud'') — an important [[Mother tantra]] <ref>The [[Sakya]] tradition considers Hevajra to be a [[Non-dual Tantras|Non-dual Tantra]].</ref>, especially popular in the [[Sakya]] and [[Kagyü]] schools. | ||
==Text== | |||
*Hevajra Tantra, the King of Tantras (Skt. ''Hevajranāmatantrarāja''; Tib. ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་, Wyl. ''kye'i rdo rje zhes bya ba rgyud kyi rgyal po'') | |||
**English translation: Snellgrove | |||
**English translation: Farrow and Menon, 1992. | |||
==Commentaries== | |||
Jamgon Kongtrul says that there were around 35 commentaries on the root tantra in India. The first commentary was written by [[Vajragarbha]], who is also the interlocutor in the Hevajra Tantra. | |||
In his autobiography, [[Jamgon Kongtrul]], while explaining his motivation for writing his own commentaries, gives an excellent overview of the most important commentaries: | |||
:I had planned to write a commentary on the Hevajra Tantra, and to request permission for this I performed the guru sadhana of [[Marpa]] in conjunction with more than a hundred repetitions of rituals to purify myself of obscurations. I also practiced means to gather merit and deepen awareness, prayed, and performed feast offerings and fulfillment rituals. I began writing methodically, beginning with the chapter on the vajra family in the first section. In the tradition of explanation deriving from Marpa and [[Ngok]], there has been no one definitive method of exegesis as there is, for example, in the [[Sakya]] tradition. Nowadays, the two commentaries most widely used are Ngok’s ''Like a Jeweled Ornament'' and the venerable [[Rangjung Dorjé]]’s commentary. But the former is entirely an explanation of the “hidden import” (Wyl. ''sbas don'') of the text, while the latter emphasizes the meanings of the words themselves, but the description of the deity is somewhat embedded, which makes it difficult to use when one is explaining it (or listening to the explanation) in connection with the basic tantra. [[Shamarpa Chökyi Drakpa|Chen-nga Chökyi Drakpa]] (the 4th Shamar Rinpoché, 1453-1524) bases his treatment on so many Indian commentaries that his explanation is not easy to understand. Such ancient explanations as the commentaries of Ram and Tsak are extremely unclear. The commentary by Thrinlépa ([[Karma Thrinlépa]] (1456-1539) was a student of the 7th Karmapa [[Chödrak Gyatso]] ) is somewhat clearer, and the excellent commentary by [[Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (Kagyü)|Dakpo Tashi Namgyal]] is so fine that I kept it aside as an overview (Wyl. ''spyi don''). Taking the meaning of the words as my primary concern, I sought to clarify them further in light of the hidden meaning and, distinct from that, the ultimate meaning. During the monastic summer retreat I taught on the three levels of ordination and the entire texts of the ''[[Profound Inner Meaning]]'', ''The Hevajra Tantra in Two Chapters'', and ''[[Uttaratantra Shastra|The Highest Continuum]]'', as well as performing a ritual in honour of the tantras. Gradually, I also wrote an overview of ''The Hevajra Tantra in Two Chapters''. During this period I had very positive signs in my dreams; for example, I dreamed of Vajradhara [[Situ Pema Nyinché Wangpo|Pema Nyinjé]] being very pleased with me and encouraging me, placing a crystal mala around my neck.<ref>Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye. The Autobiography of Jamgon Kongtrul: A Gem of Many Colors. Edited by Richard Barron. (1st edition. Ithaca, N.Y: Snow Lion, 2003) Page 154.</ref> | |||
==Famous [[Quotations: Tantra|Quotations]]== | ==Famous [[Quotations: Tantra|Quotations]]== | ||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
*[[Ringu Tulku]], ''The Ri-me Philosophy of Jamgön Kongtrul the Great'' (Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, 2006), pages 89-90. | *[[Ringu Tulku]], ''The Ri-me Philosophy of Jamgön Kongtrul the Great'' (Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, 2006), pages 89-90. | ||
==Notes== | |||
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==Internal Links == | ==Internal Links == | ||
Revision as of 10:51, 9 September 2018
Hevajra Tantra (ཀྱེ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་རྒྱུད་, ཀྱཻ་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱུད་, Wyl. kye rdo rje'i rgyud or kyai rdo rje rgyud) — an important Mother tantra [1], especially popular in the Sakya and Kagyü schools.
Text
- Hevajra Tantra, the King of Tantras (Skt. Hevajranāmatantrarāja; Tib. ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་, Wyl. kye'i rdo rje zhes bya ba rgyud kyi rgyal po)
- English translation: Snellgrove
- English translation: Farrow and Menon, 1992.
Commentaries
Jamgon Kongtrul says that there were around 35 commentaries on the root tantra in India. The first commentary was written by Vajragarbha, who is also the interlocutor in the Hevajra Tantra.
In his autobiography, Jamgon Kongtrul, while explaining his motivation for writing his own commentaries, gives an excellent overview of the most important commentaries:
- I had planned to write a commentary on the Hevajra Tantra, and to request permission for this I performed the guru sadhana of Marpa in conjunction with more than a hundred repetitions of rituals to purify myself of obscurations. I also practiced means to gather merit and deepen awareness, prayed, and performed feast offerings and fulfillment rituals. I began writing methodically, beginning with the chapter on the vajra family in the first section. In the tradition of explanation deriving from Marpa and Ngok, there has been no one definitive method of exegesis as there is, for example, in the Sakya tradition. Nowadays, the two commentaries most widely used are Ngok’s Like a Jeweled Ornament and the venerable Rangjung Dorjé’s commentary. But the former is entirely an explanation of the “hidden import” (Wyl. sbas don) of the text, while the latter emphasizes the meanings of the words themselves, but the description of the deity is somewhat embedded, which makes it difficult to use when one is explaining it (or listening to the explanation) in connection with the basic tantra. Chen-nga Chökyi Drakpa (the 4th Shamar Rinpoché, 1453-1524) bases his treatment on so many Indian commentaries that his explanation is not easy to understand. Such ancient explanations as the commentaries of Ram and Tsak are extremely unclear. The commentary by Thrinlépa (Karma Thrinlépa (1456-1539) was a student of the 7th Karmapa Chödrak Gyatso ) is somewhat clearer, and the excellent commentary by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal is so fine that I kept it aside as an overview (Wyl. spyi don). Taking the meaning of the words as my primary concern, I sought to clarify them further in light of the hidden meaning and, distinct from that, the ultimate meaning. During the monastic summer retreat I taught on the three levels of ordination and the entire texts of the Profound Inner Meaning, The Hevajra Tantra in Two Chapters, and The Highest Continuum, as well as performing a ritual in honour of the tantras. Gradually, I also wrote an overview of The Hevajra Tantra in Two Chapters. During this period I had very positive signs in my dreams; for example, I dreamed of Vajradhara Pema Nyinjé being very pleased with me and encouraging me, placing a crystal mala around my neck.[2]
Famous Quotations
སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས་ནི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཉིད། །
འོན་ཀྱང་གློ་བུར་དྲི་མས་བསྒྲིབས། །
All beings are buddhas
But this is concealed by adventitious stains.
When their stains are purified, their buddhahood is revealed.
Further Reading
- Ringu Tulku, The Ri-me Philosophy of Jamgön Kongtrul the Great (Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, 2006), pages 89-90.
Notes
- ↑ The Sakya tradition considers Hevajra to be a Non-dual Tantra.
- ↑ Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye. The Autobiography of Jamgon Kongtrul: A Gem of Many Colors. Edited by Richard Barron. (1st edition. Ithaca, N.Y: Snow Lion, 2003) Page 154.
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