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<noinclude>'''Ten topics of [[tantra]]''' (Tib. རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་དངོས་པོ་བཅུ་, [[Wyl.]] ''rgyud kyi dngos po bcu'')  
<noinclude>'''Ten topics of [[tantra]]''' (Tib. རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་དངོས་པོ་བཅུ་, ''gyü kyi ngöpo chu'', [[Wyl.]] ''rgyud kyi dngos po bcu'')  


[[Longchen Rabjam]] structured the path of [[Mantrayana]] in his commentary of the [[Guhyagarbha]] tantra, ''[[Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions]]'' according to the ten topics of tantra:
[[Longchen Rabjam]] structured the path of [[Mantrayana]] in his commentary of the [[Guhyagarbha]] tantra, ''[[Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions]]'' according to the ten topics of tantra:
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#[[view]] (Skt. ''dṛṣṭi''; Tib. [[ལྟ་བ་]], ''tawa'')
#[[view]] (Skt. ''dṛṣṭi''; Tib. [[ལྟ་བ་]], ''tawa'')
#[[samadhi]] (Skt. ''samādhi''; Tib [[ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་]], ''ting ngé dzin'')
#[[samadhi]] (Skt. ''samādhi''; Tib. [[ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་]], ''ting ngé dzin'')
#[[action]] or conduct (Skt. ''charyā''; Tib [[སྤྱོད་པ་]], ''chöpa'')
#[[action]] or conduct (Skt. ''charyā''; Tib. [[སྤྱོད་པ་]], ''chöpa'')
#[[mandala]] (Skt. ''maṇḍala''; Tib [[དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་]], ''kyilkhor'')
#[[mandala]] (Skt. ''maṇḍala''; Tib. [[དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་]], ''kyilkhor'')
#[[empowerment]] (Skt ''abhiṣeka'' or ''abhiṣiñca''; Tib [[དབང་]], ''wang'')
#[[empowerment]] (Skt. ''abhiṣiñca''; Tib. [[དབང་]], ''wang'')
#[[samaya]] (Skt.; Tib [[དམ་ཚིག་]], damtsik)
#[[samaya]] (Skt.; Tib. [[དམ་ཚིག་]], damtsik)
#[[sadhana]] (Skt. ''sādhana''; Tib [[སྒྲུབ་པ་]], ''drubpa'')
#[[accomplishment]] (Tib. [[སྒྲུབ་པ་]], ''drubpa'') which in this context refers to both Sanskrit terms ''[[sadhana]]'' and ''[[siddhi]]''  
#[[offerings]] (Skt. ''pūjā''; Tib [[མཆོད་པ་]], ''chöpa'')
#[[offerings]] (Skt. ''pūjā''; Tib. [[མཆོད་པ་]], ''chöpa'')
#[[enlightened activity]] (Skt. ''karma''; Tib [[ཕྲིན་ལས་]], ''trinlé'')
#[[enlightened activity]] (Skt. ''karma''; Tib. [[ཕྲིན་ལས་]], ''trinlé'')
#[[mudra]] (Skt. ''mudrā''; Tib [[ཕྱག་རྒྱ་]], ''chakgya'')
#[[mudra]] (Skt. ''mudrā''; Tib. [[ཕྱག་རྒྱ་]], ''chakgya'')
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In [[Mipham Rinpoche]]'s exposition, ''[[Essence of Clear Light]]'', the tenth topic is divided into two, resulting in [[Eleven topics of tantra|eleven topics]].
In [[Mipham Rinpoche]]'s exposition, ''[[Essence of Clear Light]]'', the tenth topic is divided into two (mantra and mudra), resulting in [[Eleven topics of tantra|eleven topics]].


==How the Ten Topics Relate to the [[Ten paramitas|Ten Paramitas]]==
==How the Ten Topics Relate to the Ten Paramitas==
#view is related to ''[[prajñaparamita]]'', the paramita of wisdom
Each topic can be related to one of the [[ten paramitas]] of the [[Mahayana]] path:
#samadhi is related to ''dhyanaparamita'', the paramita of [[meditative concentration]]
#view is related to the paramita of wisdom (Skt. ''[[prajñaparamita|prajñāpāramitā]]'')
#action is related to ''kshantiparamita'', the paramita of [[patience]]
#samadhi is related to the paramita of [[meditative concentration]] (Skt. ''dhyānapāramitā'')
#mandala is related to ''jñanaparamita'', the paramita of [[primordial wisdom]]
#action is related to the paramita of [[patience]] (Skt. ''kṣāntipāramitā'')
#empowerment is related to ''balaparamita'', the paramita of [[strength]]
#mandala is related to the paramita of [[primordial wisdom]] (Skt. ''jñānapāramitā'')
#samaya is related to ''shilaparamita'', the paramita of [[discipline]]
#empowerment is related to the paramita of [[strength]] (Skt. ''balapāramitā'')
#sadhana is related to ''viryaparamita'', the paramita of [[diligence]]
#samaya is related to the paramita of [[discipline]] (Skt. ''śīlapāramitā'')
#offerings are related to ''danaparamita'', the paramita of [[generosity]]
#accomplishment is related to the paramita of [[diligence]] (Skt. ''vīryapāramitā'')
#enlightened activity is related to ''pranidhanaparamita'', the paramita of [[aspiration prayers]]
#offerings are related to the paramita of [[generosity]] (Skt. ''dānapāramitā'')
#mudra & mantra are related to ''upayakaushalaparamita'', the paramita of [[skilful means]]<ref>Source: [[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''[[Essence of Clear Light]]''.</ref>
#enlightened activity is related to the paramita of [[aspiration prayers]] (Skt. ''praṇidhānapāramitā'')
#mudra & mantra are related to the paramita of [[skilful means]] (Skt. ''upāyakauśalapāramitā'')<ref>Source: [[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''[[Essence of Clear Light]]''.</ref>


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Latest revision as of 04:30, 27 January 2018

Ten topics of tantra (Tib. རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་དངོས་པོ་བཅུ་, gyü kyi ngöpo chu, Wyl. rgyud kyi dngos po bcu)

Longchen Rabjam structured the path of Mantrayana in his commentary of the Guhyagarbha tantra, Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions according to the ten topics of tantra:

  1. view (Skt. dṛṣṭi; Tib. ལྟ་བ་, tawa)
  2. samadhi (Skt. samādhi; Tib. ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་, ting ngé dzin)
  3. action or conduct (Skt. charyā; Tib. སྤྱོད་པ་, chöpa)
  4. mandala (Skt. maṇḍala; Tib. དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་, kyilkhor)
  5. empowerment (Skt. abhiṣiñca; Tib. དབང་, wang)
  6. samaya (Skt.; Tib. དམ་ཚིག་, damtsik)
  7. accomplishment (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པ་, drubpa) which in this context refers to both Sanskrit terms sadhana and siddhi
  8. offerings (Skt. pūjā; Tib. མཆོད་པ་, chöpa)
  9. enlightened activity (Skt. karma; Tib. ཕྲིན་ལས་, trinlé)
  10. mudra (Skt. mudrā; Tib. ཕྱག་རྒྱ་, chakgya)

In Mipham Rinpoche's exposition, Essence of Clear Light, the tenth topic is divided into two (mantra and mudra), resulting in eleven topics.

How the Ten Topics Relate to the Ten Paramitas

Each topic can be related to one of the ten paramitas of the Mahayana path:

  1. view is related to the paramita of wisdom (Skt. prajñāpāramitā)
  2. samadhi is related to the paramita of meditative concentration (Skt. dhyānapāramitā)
  3. action is related to the paramita of patience (Skt. kṣāntipāramitā)
  4. mandala is related to the paramita of primordial wisdom (Skt. jñānapāramitā)
  5. empowerment is related to the paramita of strength (Skt. balapāramitā)
  6. samaya is related to the paramita of discipline (Skt. śīlapāramitā)
  7. accomplishment is related to the paramita of diligence (Skt. vīryapāramitā)
  8. offerings are related to the paramita of generosity (Skt. dānapāramitā)
  9. enlightened activity is related to the paramita of aspiration prayers (Skt. praṇidhānapāramitā)
  10. mudra & mantra are related to the paramita of skilful means (Skt. upāyakauśalapāramitā)[1]

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