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| lama_gongdu [2026/11/11 23:37] – created Vajra Patience | lama_gongdu [2026/11/11 23:39] (current) – Vajra Patience |
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| Lama Gongdu བླ་མ་དགོངས་འདུས bla ma dgongs 'dus lah-mah | ==Lama Gongdu བླ་མ་དགོངས་འདུས bla ma dgongs 'dus lah-mah== |
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| | The [[Lama Gongdu]] [[བླ་མ་དགོངས་འདུས]] [[bla ma dgongs 'dus]] [[lah-mah gong-doo]], which translates to the Embodiment of the Guru's Realization or the Compendium of the Guru's Intention, is one of the most comprehensive and influential [[Terma]] [[གཏེར་མ]] [[gter ma]] [[tair-mah]] ([[Sanskrit]]: [[nidhi]] [[निधि]] - [[nidhi]]) treasure cycles within the [[Nyingma]] [[རྙིང་མ]] [[rnying ma]] [[nying-mah]] school of [[Tibetan]] [[Buddhism]]. Originally concealed in the [[8th century]] by the tantric master [[Padmasambhava]] [[པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས]] [[pad+ma 'byung gnas]] [[peh-mah joong-neh]] ([[Sanskrit]]: [[Padmasambhava]] [[पद्मसंभव]] - [[padmasaṃbhava]]) and his consort [[Yeshe Tsogyal]] [[ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ]] [[ye shes mtsho rgyal]] [[yeh-sheh tsoh-gyel]], this vast thirteen-volume collection was rediscovered in the [[14th century]] by the [[Terton]] [[གཏེར་སྟོན]] [[gter ston]] [[tair-tuhn]] [[Sangye Lingpa]] [[སངས་རྒྱས་གླིང་པ]] [[sangs rgyas gling pa]] [[sahng-gyeh ling-pah]] at [[Gampo Trak]] [[སྒམ་པོ་བྲག]] [[sgam po brag]] [[gahm-poh drahk]] in [[Tibet]]. Functioning as a complete manual for [[Vajrayana]] [[རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ]] [[rdo rje theg pa]] [[dor-jeh tek-pah]] ([[Sanskrit]]: [[vajrayāna]] [[वज्रयान]] - [[vajrayāna]]) practice, the cycle synthesizes the outer, inner, and secret dimensions of [[Guru Yoga]] [[བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར]] [[bla ma'i rnal 'byor]] [[lah-meh nel-jor]] ([[Sanskrit]]: [[guruyoga]] [[गुरुयोग]] - [[guruyoga]]) alongside the three inner [[Tantra]] [[རྒྱུད]] [[rgyud]] [[gyoo]] ([[Sanskrit]]: [[tantra]] [[तन्त्र]] - [[tantra]]) vehicles, culminating in the pinnacle teachings of [[Dzogchen]] [[རྫོགས་ཆེན]] [[rdzogs chen]] [[dzohk-chen]]. Through its intricate liturgical rituals, [[mandala]] [[དཀྱིལ་འཁོར]] [[dkyil 'khor]] [[kyil-kor]] ([[Sanskrit]]: [[maṇḍala]] [[मण्डल]] - [[maṇḍala]]) visualizations, and profound [[meditation]] [[སྒོམ]] [[sgom]] [[gohm]] ([[Sanskrit]]: [[bhāvanā]] [[भावना]] - [[bhāvanā]]) instructions, the [[Lama Gongdu]] provides a self-contained path designed to purify [[karma]] [[ལས]] [[las]] [[leh]] ([[Sanskrit]]: [[karma]] [[कर्म]] - [[karma]]), cultivate boundless [[compassion]] [[སྙིང་རྗེ]] [[snying rje]] [[nying-jeh]] ([[Sanskrit]]: [[karuṇā]] [[करुणा]] - [[karuṇā]]) and [[wisdom]] [[ཤེས་རབ]] [[shes rab]] [[sheh-rahp]] ([[Sanskrit]]: [[prajñā]] [[प्रज्ञा]] - [[prajñā]]), and guide practitioners directly to full [[awakening]] [[བྱང་ཆུབ]] [[byang chub]] [[jahng-choop]] ([[Sanskrit]]: [[bodhi]] [[बोधि]] - [[bodhi]]). |
