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The Guhyagarbha Tantra (Skt.; Tib. རྒྱུད་གསང་བ་སྙིང་པོ་, Gyü Sangwé Nyingpo; Wyl.rgyud gsang ba'i snying po, "The Tantra of the Secret Essence" or the "Secret Womb Tantra") is the most important Buddhist tantra of the Mahayoga class and the primary tantric text studied in the Nyingma tradition. [1]
Fremantle, Francesca (1971), A Critical Study of the Guhyasamāja tantra (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-26; Wedemeyer, Christian K. 2007. Āryadeva's Lamp that Integrates the Practices: The Gradual Path of Vajrayāna Buddhism according to the Esoteric Community Noble Tradition. New York: AIBS/Columbia University Press.
Mahāyoga, associated with tantras that emphasize the stage of generation, such as the Guhyagarbha Tantra. This inner tantra is seen as working with "superior relative truth", which refers to "emptiness endowed with all supreme aspects at the time of the fruition", i.e. the pure bodies and wisdoms which are the appearances of the final ultimate.
[6] They depict Zhitro as "the inner tantra of the inner tantra", which, in a condensed form, expresses the meaning of the Guhyagarbha tantra combined with the views of Anuyoga and Atiyoga teachings. It reflects the union of rigpa and emptiness and the non-duality of birth, death, and life experiences.
The Vajraśekhara Sūtra is an important Buddhist tantra used in the Vajrayāna schools of Buddhism, but can refer to a number of different works. In particular a cycle of 18 texts studied by Amoghavajra, which included both Tattvasaṃgraha Tantra, and the Guhyasamaja Tantra, a Tibetan text which appears to be composed of two works grouped together and to further confuse matters in the ...
Trilogy of Dispelling Darkness (mun sel skor gsum) - are three commentaries on the Guhyagarbha tantra by Longchenpa. They are named: Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions (gsang snying 'grel pa phyogs bcu mun sel) Dispelling Darkness of the Mind (gsang snying spyi don yid kyi mun sel)
Mipham's commentary on the Guhyagarbha Tantra is entitled The Essence of Clear Light or Nucleus of Inner Radiance (Wylie: od gsal snying po)— it is based on Longchenpa's commentary, Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions Wylie: gsang snying 'grel pa phyogs bcu mun sel which explains the Guhyagarbha from the Dzogchen point of view.
Early in the naturalization and acclimatization of Indian and Chinese tantric Buddhadharma and siddha traditions into the Himalaya and Greater Tibet in general, the Guhyagarbha Tantra (Wylie: gsang ba snying po) of the Mahayoga class of literature "represents the most normative vision of what constitutes a tantra for these Nyingma lineages". [16]