Rig pa rang shar chen po'i rgyud
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རིག་པ་རང་ཤར་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད།
rig pa rang shar chen po'i rgyud
The Great Tantra of Self-Arising Awareness
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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 discusses luminosity and awareness.
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Rig pa rang shar chen po'i rgyud.
- In Rdzogs chen rgyud bcu bdun, Vol. 1: 168-390. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2016.
- In rgyud bcu bdun/(a 'dzom par ma), Vol. 2: 1-468. 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.
Philosophical positions of this text
Do the author's writings belong to the analytic or meditative tradition of Uttaratantra exegesis?
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