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

Further Reading

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