VAJRA-YANA miscellany
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>Pho-ba commentary [rN~in-ma]
p. 43 central channel
"running |
where it is |
like the |
from four finger widths below the navel |
closed |
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to the crown cakra, eight finger widths behind the original hairline |
open. |
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It is straight and thin |
shaft of an arrow, |
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soft and flexible |
petals of a lotus flower, |
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and luminous |
light of a butter lamp." |
p. 43 "Its diameter is that of one’s own little finger."
pp. 43-44 the 3 "concentric shafts of light" constituting the central channel
p. |
shaft |
its color |
-kaya |
43 |
central |
red |
sambhoga- |
middle |
blue |
dharma- |
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43-44 |
outer (p. 43) |
white |
nirmana- (p. 44) |
pp. 44-45 environs of the heart cakra
p. 44 |
"a luminous membrane of light closes the central channel ... . |
Above this luminous membrane an eight-petaled white lotus cups a sphere of shimmering green energy. The eight petals signify ... the five senses, ... the ... primordial ground of all ordinary experience, the ideational aspect ... to integrate sense data ..., and the ego-defiled aspect that gives rive to afflicted emotions. |
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The shimmering green energy, which is also described as the "wind of karma," expresses the mind’s ever-present quality of motility – its ability to go anywhere instantaneously. |
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Cognition, mind’s other quality, is embodied in a clear t’higle of consciousness that rests lightly on the vibrating green energy. ... |
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p. 45 |
The consciousness t’higle is the size of a small pearl and is iridescent ... like "the egg of a masal bird." ... two extraordinary birds in sexual union. Simultaneously each produced from its mouth a jewel-like egg with rings of the five colors." |
p. 57 locket in heart of Amita-ayus (who is sambhoga-kaya, as distinct from Amita-abha)
"composed of a moon disk over a sun disk, in the center of which is a red syllable Hri. The red syllables of Amitayus’s mantra are arranged in a counterclockwise direction on the perimeter of the sun disk, facing outward, ... the five lights radiate brilliantly in all ten directions". |
pp. 58, 60-61 realms of colored light
p. |
58 |
58 |
58, 60 |
60 |
60 |
color |
white |
red |
(58) blue |
yellow |
green |
enlightened __ |
body |
speech |
mind |
qualities |
activities |
__ of emptiness |
form |
sound |
? |
? |
? |
__ awareness |
dharma-dhatu |
discriminating |
mirror-like |
aequalness |
all-accomplishing |
purifying __ |
grasping |
perception |
(58, 60) consciousness |
feeling |
impulses |
fortifying __ |
realization |
inner heat |
(60) blood, lymph |
skin, bones, organs |
vital energies |
pp. 60-61 macrocosm |
(61) [5th] space |
(61) [3rd] flowing lava of hot volcanoes |
(61) [2nd] oceans, waterfalls, lakes |
(60) [1st] gold, jewels, minerals |
(61) [4th] air, universal winds |
Chagdud Khadro : P’howa Commentary. Padma Publishing, 1998.
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Sherpa "Calling of Lost Souls"
p. 337 concentric walls which encircle the shaman's body
wall |
material of wall |
outer |
iron |
mid |
bronze |
inner |
crystal |
p. 337 Khyun (Garud.a) birds &
p. 338 Dul serpents around shaman's body
direction |
color of khyun and dul |
on right |
white |
on left |
golden |
in back |
red |
in front |
green |
above |
blue |
p. 343 mythic locales of the 5 trees & the 5 lamps
p. 344-345 mythic locales of the leg-bone flutes, of the drum-skins, and of the rosaries
a tree and lamp of __ |
from the __ |
p. 344 bone |
pp. 344-345 skin |
p. 345 rosary |
gold |
East |
tiger |
tiger |
wood |
copper |
South |
peafowl |
peafowl |
copper |
iron |
West |
yak |
daemon-king |
iron |
turquoise |
North |
singi karmo |
white dragon |
turquoise |
conch (in centre) |
Above = land of gods |
dragon |
s^ingi karmo |
crystal |
land of humans |
black serpent |
pp. 417-418 nights of the moon's shining upon objects of the body-parts
night |
object |
body-part |
4th |
crystal |
hip-bone |
5th |
sack |
stomach |
6th |
prayer-flag |
appendix |
7th |
clouds |
lungs |
8th |
stupa |
heart |
9th |
box |
lips |
10th |
flute |
nose |
11th |
mirror of fate |
forehead |
12th |
crown |
head |
13th |
grass |
hair |
14th |
name |
immaterial region above scalp |
p. 418, fn. 6 |
dharma-body |
patient |
walnut |
kidney |
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5 noble classes |
hand |
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mirror |
sternum |
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box |
larynx |
p. 423 hooking the bla
if the patient is __ |
create a ritual symbol for __ |
p. 424 patient's __ foot on symbol |
female |
swastika |
left |
male |
vajra |
right |
Robert Raymond Desjarlais: Samsara's Sadness. PhD diss., U. of CA at Los Angeles, 1990.
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General Praesentation of the Classes of Tantra
p. 15 Vaibhas.ika sects
Maha-sanghika |
"great community" |
Purva-s`aila |
"inner rock" |
Apara-s`aila |
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Haima-vata |
"snow-possessing" |
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Loka-uttara-vadin |
"world-outer-exposition" |
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Prajn~apti-vadin |
"determinate exposition" |
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Arya-sarva-asti-vadin |
"noble every existence exposition |
Mula-sarva-asti-vadin |
"fundamental every existence exposition" |
Kas`yapiya |
"tortoise" |
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Mahi-s`asaka |
"greatness-instructors" |
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Bahu-s`rutiya |
"much-heard" |
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Tamra-s`at.iya |
"copper-clad" |
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Vibhajya-vadin |
"discriminating exposition" |
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Arya-sthavira |
"noble elders" |
Jeta-vaniya |
"jeta grove" |
Abhaya-giri-vasin |
"fearless mountain abiders" |
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Maha-vihara-vasin |
"great-monastery abiders' |
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Arya-sammitiya |
"noble consensus" |
Kauru-kullaka |
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Avanta |
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Vatsi-putriya |
calf-son |
p. 25 of the Tatha-gata family
the 5 Vidya-rajn~i goddesses, for goddess Marici |
Maha-sahasra-Pra-mardani |
Maha-mayuri |
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Maha-prati-sara |
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Maha-s`ita-vati |
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Maha-mantra-Anu-sarin.i |
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the Us.n.is.a goddesses |
Us.n.is.a-vijaya |
Sitatapatra |
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Vimala-us.n.is.a |
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Us.n.is.a-prabha |
p. 43 # of anuttara-yoga tantra-s
60 million yogi tantra-s |
16 million yogini tantra-s |
Guhya-samaja ("Secret Assembly") Tantra
p. |
numeric |
56 |
17 chapters which are the root of the 18th chapter |
53 quaestions & answers |
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57 |
20 rituals |
49 "suchnesses" for the generation-stage |
Sonam Dragpa (bSod-nams grags-pa): Overview of Buddhist Tantra. Translated by Martin J. Boord. Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, 1996.
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Secret temple at Potala
"self-reflections of the body's purified channels, energies, and subtle essences." (p. 119)
p. |
ordinal # of vision |
manifestation |
119 |
1st |
"the fluttering and undulating vajra chain ... with countless minor circles like pearls on a string" (as mentioned in the Tantra of the Studded Jewels) |
2nd |
"five-coloured horizontal and vertical streamers of light, in the forms of checkered and criss-crossed designs ... and countless other shapes" |
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120 |
3rd |
"Circles appear in clusters of fives or nines with no fixed patterns, alone or in formations" |
4th |
"to nakedness ... the luminous displays" |
pp. 119-120 body, speech, and mind of the 4 visions
p. |
# |
vision |
body |
speech |
mind |
119 |
1st |
"a tortoise placed in a basin" |
"that of a mute" |
"a bird caught in a snare" |
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"the inner winds ... are ... still" |
"complete cessation of ... thinking" |
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119-120 |
2nd |
p. 119 "a bird ready to soar" |
pp. 119-120 "a sick person who is free of all" praetense |
p. 120 "unrestrained utterance of a madman free of all" praejudice |
p. 120 "under the influence of a mind-altering drug" |
120 |
"thought processes dissolve into the primordial expanse" |
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120 |
3rd |
"completion": all-encompassing displays |
"elephant sinking into the mud" |
Kumbha-an.d.a "child whose melodious voice captivates" |
"a person recovering from smallpox" |
"you can soar through the skies and traverse through the earth" |
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4th |
"Spontaneous" Praesence |
"a bird freed from a trap" |
"an echo" |
"being hit in the heart by an arrow" |
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"you will capture the kingdom of" Samanta-bhadra |
[The paraphrases on pp. 119-120 differ slightly from the translation on pp. 127-128.]
pp. 127-128 translation of the wall-inscriptions on the western mural painting
# |
p. 127, col. 2 vision |
p. 127 body |
pp. 127-128 speech |
pp. 127-128 mind |
p. 128 attainment |
1st |
"Direct Vision of the Dharmata" |
col. 1 "a tortoise in a basin" |
p. 127, col. 1 "that of a mute" |
pp. 127, 128 "a bird captured in a snare" |
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"the centre of the wisdom man.d.ala" |
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2nd |
"Vision of Increasing Experience" |
col. 2 "someone afflicted with illness" |
p. 128, col. 2 "someone crazy from depression" |
p. 128, col. 2 r.s.i "intoxicated by liquor" |
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"surrounded by a rain of pran.a wings" |
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3rd |
"Vision of the Culmination of Awareness" |
col. 2 "an elephant sinking in the mud" |
p. 128, col. 2 "capturing of a" Kumbha-an.d.a child |
p. 127 "someone who has been cured of smallpox" |
col. 1 Sambhoga-kaya |
"fully spreading" tig-le -s (bin.d.u-s) |
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4th |
"Vision of the Exhaustion of Dharmata" |
col. 2 "As a sign no insects will disturb you." {cf. insects depicted as "Pathogenic agents in the body" in TC, p. 365 (Fig. 31)} |
p. 128, col. 2 "someone having an arrow held on his head" |
p. 128, col. 2 "someone being hit in the heart with an arrow" {of Kama = Cupid} |
col. 1 "the result" |
"liberated into the Clear Light" |
col. 2 "like a corpse in a cemetery" |
[as organized in the commentary, including pp. 119-120]
TC = Schipper & Verellen (eds.): The Taoist Canon. The U of Chicago Pr, 2004.
p. 128, cols. 1-2 solar & internal visions
[col. 1] "Look at the sun with half-closed eyes. Watching for seven days, many" tig-le -s "will appear. |
cf. the Amitayus-dhyana Sutra for sun-gazing |
A net with square patterns, with eyes like yaks and different masks will appear. |
cf. net of Indra; eyen covering Indra's body |
Various thrones, attributes, and back curtains will appear. |
cf. throne of indra |
A string of water like a thread gathers into the awareness. |
cf. INDu "drop" of INDra |
As it says in the "Garland of Pearls", a pointing-out instruction which is like the son [autocommentary?] of the "Garland of Precious Light": |
cf. pearls strung on net of Indra |
it is like piercing someone from the heart up to the crown of the head so that the back, the head and the stomach are" |
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[col. 2] "empty inside, and putting a butter lamp in it." |
Ian A. Baker: The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple. Thames & Hudson, 2000.
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