According to Jikme Lingpa's ''khrid-yig ye-shes bla-ma'', pp. 53a-b, this, the fourth and last of the FOUR CONSOLIDATIONS of All-Surpassing Realisation, consists of: (1) the assurance that, though one has heard of the suffering of beings in the three evil existences, the duration of their lives therein and so forth, one is unafraid of these evil existences because one has directly determined that bewilderment is unknown from the beginning in the intrinsic nature, without the possibility of joyful or sorrowful experiences (''ngan-song gsum-gyi sdug-bsngal-dang tshe-tshad la-sogs-pa thos-kyang rang-ngo gdod-nas 'khrul mi-shes-pa'i thog-tu bde-sdug shes-bya-la mi-srid-par thag-chod-pas ngan song-la bag mi-tsha-ba'i gdeng''); (2) the assurance that one does not have to aspire towards the maturation of the cause and result in that one has directly reached the ground of awareness, whereupon even the mere name of saṃsāra does not exist (''rig-pa gzhi thog-tu phebs-pa-la 'khor-ba ming-tsam-du'ang ma-grub-pas rgyu-'bras mam-smin-la ma-re-ba'i gdeng''); (3) the assurance that, having been so liberated in the ground of reality, there is no need to aspire towards the object of attainment because the nirvāṇa wherein mere bliss is experienced is without individual characteristics (''chos-nyid gzhi-la 'di-ltar grol-nas 'di-tsam-du bde'o snyam-pa'i myang-'das rang-mtshan-pa med-pas thob bya-la re-ba med-pa'i gdeng''); and (4) the assurance that, though one has heard that the enlightened attributes in the fields of the conquerors are limitless, one's delight is purified in sameness because one has reached the ground in which the buddhas are no different, by even a hair's breadth, from the awareness that is one's own essence (''rgyal-ba'i khams-la yon-tan tshad-med-par thos-kyang rang-ngo rig-pa-las tha-dad-pa'i sangs-rgyas rgyu spu'i rtse-mo tsamdu'ang med-pa gzhi thog-tu phebs-bas dga'-brod mnyam-pa-nyid-du dag-pa'i gdeng''). 343, 372 +
The four guardians of Yangleshö who confronted [[Padmasambhava]] at Chumik Cangcup in Nepal. Their names are Dorje Yacin (''rdo-rje ya-byin''), the daughter of a Māra demon; Decen Decin (''bde-can de-byin''), the daughter of Rāhu; Secin (''bse-byin''), the daughter of a Tsen spirit; and Phakcin (''phag-byin''), the daughter of a nāga spirit. See, e.g., Jikme Lingpa, ''Vajrakīla according to the Tradition of the Tantra'', (p. 460). 481 +
Refer to the chart on pp. 14-15, for their enumeration in accordance with Mvt. 3085-100, and for their correspondence to the FOUR MEDITATIVE CONCENTRATIONS. 62 +
The river of conventional textual exegeses with commentaries and lecture notes; the river of instructions of the aural lineage with their essential writings and guidance which lays bare the teaching; the river of blessing and empowerment with the means for its conferral and the introductions to reality; and the river of practical techniques with the rites of enlightened activity, attainment and the protectors. 601 +
Delight (''dga-'ba''), supreme delight (''dga'-mchog''), absence of delight (''dga-'bral'') and co-emergent delight (''lhan-cig skyes-pa'i dga'-ba''), each of which has four aspects through its conjunction with the same four, making sixteen in all. Cf. Longcenpa, ''Dispelling Darkness in the Ten Directions'', pp. 386-96 (GGFTC, pp. 900-14). 125 +
Different enumerations of these have been given. For example, Sodokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen, ''dris-lan lung-dang rigs-pa'i 'brug-sgra'', p. 33, reports them to be that this tantra is flawed in word (''sgra-skyon''), flawed in meaning (''don-skyon''), flawed by contradiction ('' 'gal-skyon'') and flawed by disconnection (''ma-'brel-ba'i skyon''). According to the ''Scholar's Feast of Doctrinal History'', p. 179, they are the error of the introductory statement “At the time I gave this explanation” ('' 'di-skad bdag-gis bshad-pa ces mi-rigs-pa''), the error of the maṇḍala having an immeasurable ground (''gzhi tshad-med mi-rigs-pa''), the error of explaining the three times as four times (''dus-gsum-la dus-bzhir bshad pa mi-rigs-pa'') and the error of [[Vajrasattva]] being the central deity of the maṇḍala (''dkyil-'khor-gyi gtso-bo rdo-rje sems-dpas byas-pa mi-rigs-pa''). Similarly, Gö Khukpa Lhetse in his ''Broadside'' is said to have criticised the fault of the introduction (''klong-log'') which claims that the ''Secret Nucleus'' has no audience of [[bodhisattva]]s who requested and received it, unlike the other tantras; the fault of time (''dus-log'') which claims the ''Secret Nucleus'' speaks of four times instead of three; the fault of the maṇḍala (''dkyil-'khor log'') which claims that [[Vajrasattva]] appears at the centre of the maṇḍala instead of [[Vairocana]]; and the fault of the tantra itself (''rgyud-log'') which claims that the ''Secret Nucleus'' refers to other tantras when indicating the auspicious times and days for its practice. These four faults, which have many aspects, have been refuted by Rikpei Reldri, Sodokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen, Jikme Lingpa and others. See GGFTC (pp. 61-72). 914, 916 +
These are the following among the emanations of King Trhisong Detsen: Nyang-rel [[Nyima Özer]], [[Guru Chöwang]], [[Dorje Lingpa]], Orgyen [[Pema Lingpa]] and [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]]. Refer to Jamyang Khyentse, ''Mkhyen brtse on the History of the Dharma'', (p. 41). 755, 760, 789, 796, 849 +
According to Longdöl Lama, ''The Collected Works of Longdöl Lama'', p. 1455, these are to desire other men (''skyes-pa gzhan-la sems-pa''), to harbour great jealousy for other women (''bud-med gzhan-la phrag-dog-che''), to have ill will (''sems-pa ngan''), to be very stingy (''ser-sna-che'') and to be perpetually ignorant (''rtag-tu ma-rig bya-byed''). 418 +
According to [[Mahāyoga]], these are the yoga of great emptiness which is discriminative awareness (''shes-rab stong-pa chen-po'i rnal-'byor''), the apparitional display of compassion which is skilful means (''thabs snying-rje sgyu-ma'') and the seals which are subtle and coarse (''phyag-rgya phra-rags''). They are also enumerated under the FIVE PATHS OF MAHĀYOGA . 358, 360, 362-3 +