Phyag rgya chen po lnga ldan rtogs pa'i mgur

ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་ལྡན་རྟོགས་པའི་མགུར།

phyag rgya chen po lnga ldan rtogs pa'i mgur

Hymns on the Fivefold Path of Realization of Mahāmudrā

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

Jikten Sumgön, the founder of the Drikung Kagyu tradition, presented Mahāmudrā practice in five parts in his short poetic work called Hymns on the Fivefold Path of Realization (ལྔ་ལྡན་རྟོགས་པའི་མགུར།). Capturing an important topic in each verse and using an effective analogy for each topic, his poetic work has become a well-known, concise text on Mahāmudrā and is widely cited in the later works. The five verses with translation by Khenchen Konchog Gyaltsen of the Drikung lineage are given below.

༡) བྱང་སེམས་ཕྱག་ཆེན།

བྱམས་དང་སྙིང་རྗེའི་རྟ་ཕོ་ལ། །གཞན་ཕན་གི་དཀྱུས་ཐོག་མ་བཅད་ན། །ཁྲོམ་ལྷ་མིའི་འོར་ཆེ་མི་འབྱུང་བས། །སེམས་སྔོན་འགྲོ་འདི་ལ་ནན་ཏན་མཛོད།།

1. The Great Seal of Bodhichitta
If the steed of love and compassion
Does not run for the benefit of others,
It will not be rewarded in the assembly of gods and humans.
Attend, therefore, to the preliminaries.

༢) ཡི་དམ་ལྷ་སྐུའི་ཕྱག་ཆེན།

རང་ལུས་ལྷ་སྐུའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ། །གཞི་འགྱུར་མེད་ཀྱི་བརྟན་ས་མ་ཟིན་ན། །མ་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་འཁོར་འབངས་མི་འདུ་བས། །ལུས་ཡི་དམ་གི་ལྷ་ལ་ནན་ཏན་མཛོད།།

2. The Great Seal of Yidam Deity
If one’s body, the King of Deities
Is not stabilized on this Unchanging Ground,
The retinue of dakinis will not assemble.
Be sure, therefore, of your body as the yidam.

༣) བླ་མའི་མོས་གུས་ཕྱག་ཆེན།

བླ་མ་སྐུ་བཞིའི་གངས་རི་ལ། །མོས་གུས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ་མ་ཤར་ན། །བྱིན་རླབས་ཀྱི་ཆུ་རྒྱུན་མི་འབྱུང་བས། །སེམས་་མོས་གུས་འདི་ལ་ནན་ཏན་མཛོད།།

3. The Great Seal of Devotion
If on the Guru, the Snow Mountain of the Four Kayas,
The Sun of Devotion fails to shine,
The Stream of Blessings will not flow.
Attend, therefore, to this mind of devotion.

༤) གནས་ལུགས་ཕྱག་ཆེན།

སེམས་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ནམ་མཁའ་ཡངས་པ་ལ། །རྣམ་རྟོག་གི་སྤྲིན་ཚོགས་མ་དེངས་ན། །མཁྱེན་གཉིས་ཀྱི་གཟའ་སྐར་མི་བཀྲ་བས། །སེམས་མི་རྟོག་འདི་ལ་ནན་ཏན་མཛོད།།

4. The Great Seal of the True Nature
If in the vastly spacious space of the mind itself (cittata)
The clouds of conceptual thoughts do not dissipate,
The stars and the planets of the Dual Knowledge་will not shine.
Attend, therefore, to nonconceptuality.

༥) བསྔོ་བ་ཕྱག་ཆེན།

ཚོགས་གཉིས་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ལ། །སྨོན་ལམ་གྱིས་བྱི་དོར་མ་བྱས་ན། །དགོས་འདོད་ཀྱི་འབྲས་བུ་མི་འབྱུང་བས། །རྗེས་བསྔོ་བ་འདི་ལ་ནན་ཏན་མཛོད།།

5. The Great Seal of Dedication
If the two wish-fulfilling gems of Accumulations
Are not cleaned and polished with aspiration prayers,
The results of (your) hopes and expectations will not come to fruition.
Attend, therefore, to the dedication of merits at the end.

Citation

'bri gung skyob pa 'jig rten mgon po (འབྲི་གུང་སྐྱོབ་པ་འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་). phyag rgya chen po lnga ldan rtogs pa'i mgur [ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་ལྡན་རྟོགས་པའི་མགུར།]. [Hymns on the Fivefold Path of Realization of Mahāmudrā].

Recensions

Phyag rgya chen po lnga ldan rtogs pa'i mgur. (Hymns on the Fivefold Path of Realization). Recension information:

Tibetan	'Bri gung skyob pa 'jig rten mgon po. ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་ལྡན་རྟོགས་པའི་མགུར། (Phyag rgya chen po lnga ldan rtogs pa'i mgur). In Gsung 'bum/ 'jig rten mgon po, Vol. 10: 96-102. Delhi: Drikung Kagyu Ratna Shri Sungrab Nyamso Khang, 2001.

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Mahāmudrā - Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā. Skt महामुद्रा  Tib ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།  

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Mahāmudrā - Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā. Skt महामुद्रा  Tib ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།  

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Karuṇā - Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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Niṣprapañca - Freedom from conceptual elaborations. Skt निष्प्रपञ्च  Tib སྤྲོས་བྲལ་  

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