Tapihritsa
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Tapihritsa or Tapahritsa (c 7th ~ 8th century) was a Bon practitioner who achieved the Dzogchen mastery of the rainbow body and consequently, as a fully realised trikaya Buddha, is invoked as an iṣṭadevatā ({{langx|xct|yi dam}}) by Dzogchen practitioners in both Bon{{sfnp|Namdak|1991}} and Tibetan Buddhism.{{sfnp|Jurkovic|2011|p=6}} He is known for his achievement of the rainbow body.{{sfnp|Karmay|Watt|2007|p=27}}{{sfnp|Wangyal|2005}}
File:Tapihritsa Bön.jpg, a Bon siddha from Zhangzhung]]
The historical Tapihritsa was born in Zhangzhung to a family of nomads. Tapihritsa's principal teacher was Dawa Gyaltsen.{{sfnp|Wangyal|2005}}
Tapihritsa was contemporaneous with Ligmincha, King of Zhangzhung, and Trisong Detsen, Emperor of Tibet.{{sfnp|Wangyal|2005}}
Tapihritsa is often visualized as representing the realization of all the masters of the Zhangzhung Whispered Transmission ({{bo|w=zhang zhung snyan brgyud}}) lineage, one of the three Bon Dzogchen lineages.{{cn|date=June 2021}}
Works
Tapihritsa's primary notable work is The Twenty-One Nails (rdzogs pa chen po zhang zhung snyan rgyud las gzer bu gnyis shu rtsa gcig). There are two translations of this text and commentary into English, as follows:
- {{cite book |last=Reynolds |first=John Mrydhin |title=The Precepts of the Dharmakaya: Advanced Instructions on the Practice of Bönpo Dzogchen According to the Zhang-Zhung Tradition of Tibet |publisher=Vajra Books |year=2014 |isbn=978-9937-623-15-5 |ref=none}} A translation of Tapihritsa's The Twenty-One Nails.
- {{cite book |author=Tapihritsa |translator=Brown, Daniel P. |translator2=Gurung, Sonam |title=The Twenty-One Nails: According to the Zhang Zhung Oral Transmission Lineage of Bon Great Completion |location=United States |publisher=Integral Publishing House |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-7321579-7-2 |ref=none}}
Notes
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References
- {{cite journal |last=Jurkovic |first=Ratka |title=Prayer to Ta pi hri tsa: A short exposition of the Base, the Path and the Fruit in Bon Dzogchen teachings |journal=Revue d'Études Tibétaines |volume=16 |number=1 |year=2011 |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/229343}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Karmay |editor1-first=Samten G. |editor2-last=Watt |editor2-first=Jeff |title=Bon, the Magic Word: the Indigenous Religion of Tibet |date=2007 |publisher=Rubin Museum of Art |location=New York| isbn=978-0977213122 |edition=1st}}
- {{cite book |last=Namdak |first=Tenzin |author-link=Lopön Tenzin Namdak |title=Tapihritsa: The Condensed Meaning of an Explanation of the Teachings of Yungdrung Bon |location=Nepal |publisher=Bonpo Foundation |year=1991}}
- {{cite web |last=Wangyal |first=Tenzin |author-link=Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche |date=2005 |title=Teaching: Tapihritsa |url=http://www.ligmincha.org/program/description/tapihritsa.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813184304/http://www.ligmincha.org/program/description/tapihritsa.html |archive-date=2006-08-13 |access-date=2021-05-02 |website=ligmincha.org}}
Further reading
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- {{cite book |last=Achard |first=Jean-Luc |title=The Six Lamps: Secret Dzogchen Instructions of the Bön Tradition |location=United States |publisher=Wisdom Publications |year=2017 |isbn=978-1614293644}}
- {{cite book |last=Hatchell |first=Christopher |title=Naked Seeing: The Great Perfection, the Wheel of Time, and Visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet. |location=United Kingdom |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0199982912}}
- {{cite book |last=Reynolds |first=John Myrdhin |title=The Oral Tradition from Zhang-Zhung: An Introduction to the Bonpo Dzogchen Teachings of the Oral Tradition from Zhang-Zhung|location=Kathmandu |publisher=Vajra Publishers |year=2005 |isbn=978-9994664443}}
- {{cite book |last=Wangyal |first=Tenzin |author-link=Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche |title=Wonders of the natural mind: the essence of Dzogchen in the native Bon tradition of Tibet |location=United States |publisher=Snow Lion Publications |year=2000 |isbn=978-1559391429}}
External links
- [https://ligmincha.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/The_Invocation_of_Tapihritsa_2010.pdf The Invocation of Tapihritsa, by Nangzher Lopo]
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