Garland of Views: The First Guhyagarbha Teaching in Tibet by Guru Padmasambhava

Garland of Views: The First Guhyagarbha Teaching in Tibet by Guru Padmasambhava

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This book is based on the teachings of the Guhyagarbha that Khenchen Palden Sherab and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche gave in the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center (PBC) temple of Palm Beach Dharma Center in West Palm Beach, Florida in January of 2005. The appendices contain a Tibetan recension and English translation of the root text, Garland of Views (མན་ངག་ལྟ་བའི་ཕྲེང་བ།, man ngag lta ba'i phreng ba), translated by H.E. Khempo Yurmed Tinly Rinpoche and Robert Warren Clark.

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Sherab, Khenchen Palden and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. Garland of Views: The First Guhyagarbha Teaching in Tibet by Guru Padmasambhava. Edited by Samye Translation Group. Sidney Center, NY: Dharma Samudra, 2024.

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The Tibetan text of the མན་ངག་ལྟ་བའི་ཕྲེང་བ། (man ngag lta ba'i phreng ba) is No. 4726 in Vol. 83 of the bsTan ’gyar (The Tibetan Tripitaka), Tokyo, 1965. It is also found in Vol. 1, pp. 17-27 of the gdams ngag mdzod, Paro: 1979-1981 (TBRC Resource Code: W24519). A reprint was produced by Tarthang Kunga Gelek. (p. 238 n. 1)

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Rājopadeśadarśanamālāམན་ངག་གི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལྟ་བའི་འཕྲེང་བ

A Garland of Views presents a concise commentary by the eighth-century Indian Buddhist master Padmasambhava on a chapter from the Guhyagarbha Tantra on the different Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical views, including the Great Perfection (Dzogchen). (Source: Shambhala Publications)

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Rājopadeśadarśanamālāམན་ངག་གི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལྟ་བའི་འཕྲེང་བ

A Garland of Views presents a concise commentary by the eighth-century Indian Buddhist master Padmasambhava on a chapter from the Guhyagarbha Tantra on the different Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical views, including the Great Perfection (Dzogchen). (Source: Shambhala Publications)

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Rājopadeśadarśanamālāམན་ངག་གི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལྟ་བའི་འཕྲེང་བ

A Garland of Views presents a concise commentary by the eighth-century Indian Buddhist master Padmasambhava on a chapter from the Guhyagarbha Tantra on the different Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical views, including the Great Perfection (Dzogchen). (Source: Shambhala Publications)

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• Dedicationv
• Acknowledgmentsxii

• Chapter 1: Introduction1
  • Establishing Our Motivation1
  • Fivefold Explanation of the Text2
  • Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche's Commentary7
  • The Origin of these Teachings8
  • The Recovery of these Teachings by Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche's Blessing9
  • The Meaning of the Title11
  • Beginning of the Text: Homage12

• Part 1: Two Kinds of Views13

• Chapter 2: Worldly Views14
  • Flat View15
  • Rejecting View16
  • Dead-End View17
  • Holding-On View18
  • The Origin of the Worldly Views20
  • Questions and Answers21

• Chapter 3: Introduction to the Buddhist Views28
  • Summary of Worldly Views28
  • Buddhist Views That Go Beyond the World30
  • Essence of the Causal and Result Yanas31

• Part 2: Views of the Lower Yanas35

• Chapter 4: Shravakayana36
  • Exaggeration and Depreciation36
  • The Constituents Comprising Everything in the World38
  • The Shadows of Consciousness42
  • The Four Noble Truths44

• Chapter 5: Pratyekabuddhayana48
  • The Pratyekabuddha Realization48
  • The Solitary Nature of Pratyekabuddhas49

• Chapter 6: Bodhisattvayana52
  • Ultimate Reality52
  • Conventional Reality53
  • The Paramitas and Bhumis55
  • Questions and Answers57

• Part 3: Views of the Outer Tantras63

• Chapter 7: Kriyatantra65
  • The Nature of Kriyatantra65
  • The Nature of the Deity66
  • Meditating on the Deity69
  • Kriyatantra Conduct70
  • Relationship with the Deity71
  • Kriyatantra Realization72

• Chapter 8: Upatantra73
  • The Four-fold Samadhi74
  • The Interdependent Coordination System77
  • Tendrel and the Great Tertons78
  • Upatantra Realization82

• Chapter 9: Yogatantra83
  • The Four Mudras of the Deities84
  • Yogatantra Realization86
  • The Progressive and Inclusive Nature of the Yanas86
  • Questions and Answers87

• Part 4: Views of the Inner Tantras93

• Chapter 10: Introduction to the Inner Tantras94
  • Summary of the Views of the Outer Tantras95
  • Overview of the Inner Tantras96

• Chapter 11: Mahayoga98
  • The Three Samadhis98
  • Clarity, Purity, and Stability103
  • Generation of the Mandala104

• Chapter 12: Anuyoga106
  • The Mandala of Bodhichitta106
  • The Nonconceptual Nature107
  • Meditating on the Bodhichitta Mandala108

• Chapter 13: Atiyoga110
  • The Lack of Distinction110
  • Questions and Answers112

• Chapter 14: Mandala of the Male and Female Deities117
  • Mahayoga Teaching of Dzogchen117
  • Five Aggregates and Five Great Elements118
  • Four Consciousnesses and Their Objects122
  • Four Sensory Organs and Their Objects124
  • Four Aspects of Touch and the Four Extreme Views125
  • Mental Consciousness and Its Object126

• Chapter 15: The Primordially Enlightened Nature128
  • All Phenomena are Mind128
  • The Meaning of Dzogchen132

• Part 5: Dzogchen View133

• Chapter 16: The Path of Four Realizations134
  • Realization of the Singular Cause136
  • Realization by the Power of Sacred Syllables138
  • Realization by the Power of Blessings141
  • Direct Realization142

• Chapter 17: Review of Pure Perception of the Four Realizations144
  • Review of Pure Perception144
  • Review of the Four Realizations145

• Chapter 18: The Three Factors and What They Reveal149
  • The Three Factors for Accomplishing the Aim149
  • What the Three Factors Reveal152
  • Glorious Wheel of Ornaments156

• Chapter 19: Four Limbs for Accomplishing the Aim160
  • Approach160
  • Close Approach161
  • Attainment or Practice162
  • Great Attainment or Great Practice163

• Chapter 20: Entering the Mandala167
  • What It Means to Enter the Mandala167
  • The Meaning of Secret Vehicle168
  • The Importance of All Teachings169
  • Descending View and Ascending Conduct171
  • Questions and Answers172

• Chapter 21: Different Kinds of Yogic Conduct184
  • Conduct of the Non-Buddhist Schools185
  • Conduct of the Buddhist Schools186
  • Recovering Our Sight194

• Chapter 22: Concluding Summary196
  • Foundational View and Practice196
  • Bodhisattvayana View and Practice198
  • Vajrayana View and Practice199
  • Dzogchen View and Practice199
  • Final Practice Pointers201
  • Dedication of Merit203

• Appendices

• Tibetan and English Root Text of Garland of Views207
• List of Abbreviations229
• Glossary231
• Endnotes264
• List of Figures265
• About the Authors269
• Padma Samye Ling Shedra Series275
• Other Publications by the Authors277
• Opening the Door of the Dharma Treasury280
• Padmasambhava Buddhist Center281

Pad+ma 'byung gnas. Rājopadeśadarśanamālā [राजोपदेशदर्शनमाला]. Man ngag gi rgyal po lta ba'i 'phreng ba [མན་ངག་གི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལྟ་བའི་འཕྲེང་བ]. [A Garland of Views: The King of Pith Instructions]. Tengyur, RKTST 2725 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=2725&typ=2.

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Pad+ma 'byung gnas. Rājopadeśadarśanamālā [राजोपदेशदर्शनमाला]. Man ngag gi rgyal po lta ba'i 'phreng ba [མན་ངག་གི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལྟ་བའི་འཕྲེང་བ]. [A Garland of Views: The King of Pith Instructions]. Tengyur, RKTST 2725 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=2725&typ=2.

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt महासन्धि  Tib རྫོགས་ཆེན།  

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Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt महासन्धि  Tib རྫོགས་ཆེན།  

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Pratyekabuddha - Pratyekabuddhas are saints who, in their last birth in the cycle of existence, are said to become enlightened through solitary practice on the nature of dependent ordination. These saints are said to appear when there is no buddha around and work either alone or in small groups. Skt प्रत्येकबुद्ध  Tib རང་སངས་རྒྱས། and རང་རྒྱལ།  Ch 緣覺  

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Pratyekabuddha - Pratyekabuddhas are saints who, in their last birth in the cycle of existence, are said to become enlightened through solitary practice on the nature of dependent ordination. These saints are said to appear when there is no buddha around and work either alone or in small groups. Skt प्रत्येकबुद्ध  Tib རང་སངས་རྒྱས། and རང་རྒྱལ།  Ch 緣覺  

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Pratyekabuddha - Pratyekabuddhas are saints who, in their last birth in the cycle of existence, are said to become enlightened through solitary practice on the nature of dependent ordination. These saints are said to appear when there is no buddha around and work either alone or in small groups. Skt प्रत्येकबुद्ध  Tib རང་སངས་རྒྱས། and རང་རྒྱལ།  Ch 緣覺  

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Pratyekabuddha - Pratyekabuddhas are saints who, in their last birth in the cycle of existence, are said to become enlightened through solitary practice on the nature of dependent ordination. These saints are said to appear when there is no buddha around and work either alone or in small groups. Skt प्रत्येकबुद्ध  Tib རང་སངས་རྒྱས། and རང་རྒྱལ།  Ch 緣覺  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Anuyoga - The second set of the three inner tantras and the eighth of the nine vehicles according to the Nyingma tradition. Anuyoga includes many yogini tantras and focuses on the Completion Stage practices of sacred channels, energies and essential fluids and espouses the actualisation of empty bliss. Skt अनुयोग  Tib ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག  

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Atiyoga - A system of esoteric thought and practice associated with the Nyingma tradition and equivalent to Great Perfection, it is considered as the pinnacle of the nine vehicles or paths one can follow to reach Buddhahood. The system focusses on the pure, luminous and empty nature of the mind as the ground reality which must be realised through the path of trekchö and thögal practice. Skt अतियोग  Tib ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག and ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར།  

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