Rdo rje sems dpa' snying gi me long gi rgyud
From Buddha-Nature
རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྙིང་གི་མེ་ལོང་གི་རྒྱུད།
rdo rje sems dpa' snying gi me long gi rgyud
The Tantra of Mirror of Vajrasattva’s Heart
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One of the seventeen tantras belonging to the Unsurpassable Secret Cycle (ཡང་གསང་བླ་མེད་ཀྱི་སྐོར་) or Seminal Heart (སྙིང་ཐིག་) series of the Secret Instruction Class (མན་ངག་སྡེ་) of Dzogchen teachings, this was considered to have been passed down from Vimalamitra in the 8th century although modern scholars consider this be a Tibetan composition of later period. The tantra explains how Buddha-Nature abides at the heart of a person, in the midst of five coloured lights, like 'a vase body' along with the peaceful deities, from which pristine wisdom shines forth to the crown where the wrathful deities abide.
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Rdo rje sems dpa' snying gi me long gi rgyud.
- In Rdzogs chen rgyud bcu bdun, Vol. 2: 105-140. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2016.
- In rgyud bcu bdun/(a 'dzom par ma), Vol. 1: 315-388. Dkar mdzes bod rigs rang skyong khul, Dpal yul rdzong: A 'dzom chos sgar, 2000.
- In Collected Tantras of the Nyingma: The mTshams-brag Manuscript of the rñying ma rgyud 'bum. Thimpu, Bhutan: National Library, Royal Government of Bhutan, 1982.
- In Rnying ma rgyud 'bum/(sde dge par ma). Sde dge: Sde dge par khang chen mo, n.d.
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Do the author's writings belong to the analytic or meditative tradition of Uttaratantra exegesis?
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