Skyid sdug lam 'khyer gyi blo sbyong/Full text
This is a fascinating short text on mind training that employs the well-known Vajrayana meditation of taking death, intermediate state, and rebirth onto the path as the three buddha bodies. The text provides an instruction on how to apply this three-buddha-bodies meditation for the specifically mind training objective of taking everyday experience as one's spiritual path. Interestingly, the root text of this instruction, which Shönu Gyalchok (Compendium of Well-Uttered Insights, p. 245) identifies as the four-line stanza attributed to Kashmiri master Śākyaśrī (1127-1225), does not allude to any association with this Vajrayana method. It is probable that the present work, which is essentially an exposition of Śākyaśrī's four lines, was composed by the Tibetan translator Trophu Jampa Pal, who is listed in the text as the inheritor of the lineage of this instruction from the Kashmiri master. Since no work of Trophu's survives today to my knowledge, this attribution must remain only a hypothesis. (Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection, 604n335)
| Reference | skyid sdug lam 'khyer gyi blo sbyong [སྐྱིད་སྡུག་ལམ་འཁྱེར་གྱི་བློ་སྦྱོང་།]. [Mind Training Taking Joys and Pains onto the Path]. |
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