Self-arising Primordial Awareness
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{{Tibetan Buddhism}}Self- Arising Primordial Awareness ({{bo|t=རིག་པ་རང་ཤར་|w=rig pa rang shar}}) is one of the Seventeen tantras of Dzogchen Upadesha.Source: [http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Seventeen_Tantras] (accessed: Thursday March 25, 2010)
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In the Lungi Terdzö (Wylie: lung gi gter mdzod) the prose autocommentary by Longchenpa (1308 – 1364 or possibly 1369) to his Chöying Dzö (Wylie: chos dbyings mdzod) -- which are numbered amongst the Seven Treasuries (Wylie: mdzod chen bdun) -- the following embedded quotation from this Tantra has been rendered into English by Barron, et al. (2001: p. 9) and the Wylie has been secured from Wikisource and interspersed and embedded in the English gloss for probity:
Within the essence of ultimate truth, [yang dag don gyi ngo bo la]
there is no Buddha or ordinary being. [sangs rgyas dang ni sems can med]
Since awareness cannot be reified, it is empty. [rig pa 'dzin pa med pas stong]
Given that it does not dwell in emptiness, [stong pa nyid la me gnas na]
it abides in its own state of supreme bliss. [rang gi bde chen sa la gnas]
The majestic ruler of all buddhas [sangs rgyas kun gyi rje btsan pa]
is understood to be one's own awareness. [rang gi rig pa shes par bya]
This monarch, naturally manifests awareness, [rang snang rig pa'i rgyal po nyid]
is present in everyone, but no one realizes it. [kun la yod de kun gyis rtog pa med]Longchenpa (author, compilor); Barron, Richard (translator, annotator) (2001). A Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission (autocommentary on Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena). Padma Publishing, p.9.'Rig pa rang shar chen po'i rgyud'. Source: [http://wikisource.org/wiki/Rig_pa_rang_shar_chen_po'i_rgyud] (accessed: Monday April 5, 2010)
Primary resources
- [http://wikisource.org/wiki/Rig_pa_rang_shar_chen_po'i_rgyud Rig pa rang shar chen po'i rgyud @ Wikisource in Wylie]
- [http://wikisource.org/wiki/རིག་པ་རང་ཤར་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད Rig pa rang shar chen po'i rgyud @ Wikisource in Uchen (Tibetan Script), Unicode]
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