Heruka Galpo Tantra
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Heruka Galpo Tantra (T. dpal he ru ka'i thugs kyi rgyud gal po). One of the Eighteen Mahayoga Tantras, belonging to the cyle of Viśuddha heruka, symbol of awakened mind.[1]
This text is one of the source texts for Jigme Lingpa's Staircase to Akanishtha.[2]
McLeod and Guarisco state:
- ... the Galpo Tantra's presentation of the phase of completion, as outlined by Kongtrul, gives a remarkably clear picture of what that phase entails and its salient points, which encompass the styles of completion phase practices of both the father and mother tantras.[1]
Both the Galpo and the Galpoche tantras are found in Vol. RA of the Nyingma Gyübum.[3]
Alternate titles
- gal po’i rgyud ("Galpo Tantra")[4]
- he ru ka gal po ("Heruka Galpo")[5]
- he ru ka gal po’i rgyud ("Heruka Galpo Tantra")[6]
- dpal he ru ka'i thugs kyi rgyud gal po ("Glorious Galpo Tantra of Heruka Mind")[7]
- yang dag rtsa rgyud ("Yandak root tantra")[7]
Four manifestations of enlightenment
Cortland Dahl and Andreas Doctor state:
- According to Jigme Lingpa, the four manifestations of enlightenment comprise an approach to development stage meditation unique to the Heruka Galpo Tantra, in contrast to the more well-known five manifestations of enlightenment. These four are: 1) emptiness and the awakened mind, 2) the seed syllable, 3) the complete form of the deity, and 4) the placement of the seed syllable.[8]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jamgön Kongtrul 2005, p. 44-45.
- ↑ Jigme Lingpa, Patrul Rinpoche & Getse Mahapandita 2006, Introduction.
- ↑
ཧེ་རུ་ཀ་གལ་པོ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Jamgön Kongtrul 2005, Bibliography.
- ↑ ཧེ་རུ་ཀ་གལ་པོ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Jigme Lingpa & Kangyur Rinpoche 2013, Bibliography.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1
dpal he ru ka'i thugs kyi rgyud gal po, The Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA)
- ↑ Jigme Lingpa, Patrul Rinpoche & Getse Mahapandita 2006, Glossary, s.v. "four manifestations of enlightenment".
Sources
Jigme Lingpa; Kangyur Rinpoche (2013), Treasury of Precious Qualities, Book Two, translated by Padmakara Translation Group, Boston: Shambhala Publications- Jigme Lingpa; Patrul Rinpoche; Getse Mahapandita (2006), Deity, Mantra, and Wisdom: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra, translated by Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications
- Jamgön Kongtrul (2005), Systems of Buddhist Tantra, The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Part Four, translated by Ingrid Loken McLeod; Elio Guarisco, Snow Lion. Archive version
Further reading
- dpal he ru ka'i thugs kyi rgyud gal po, The Buddhist Digital Archives (BUDA)