Introduction

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༄༅། །དྷརྨྨ་དྷཱ་ཏུ་རཏྣ་ཀོ་ཥ་ནཱ་མ་བི་ཛ་ཧཱ་རམ། །
༄༅། །ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས།། །།

༄༅། །རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། དྷརྨ་དྷཱ་ཏུ་རཏྣ་ཀོ་ཥ་ནཱ་མ།

བོད་སྐད་དུ། ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་མཛོད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ།^{[comm 1]} {{}}

དཔལ་ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།^[1] ^[2] ^[3] {{}}

།གདོད་ནས་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ངོ་མཚར་རྨད་ཀྱི་ཆོས།
།རང་བྱུང་ཡེ་ཤེས་འོད་གསལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།
།སྣང་སྲིད་སྣོད་བཅུད་འཁོར་འདས་འབྱུང་བའི་མཛོད།
།མི་གཡོ་སྤྲོས་དང་བྲལ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7] ^[8] ^{[comm 2]} {{}}

།ཐེག་པའི་ཡང་རྩེ་རི་རྒྱལ་ཉི་ཟླའི་ཀློང༌།
།འོད་གསལ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོའི་ཀློང༌།
།རྩོལ་ཞིང་སྒྲུབ་མེད་རང་བཞིན་བབས་ཀྱི་ཀློང༌།
།ཡེ་འབྱམས་རྨད་དུ་བྱུང་བ་བཤད་ཀྱིས་ཉོན།^[9] ^[10] ^[11] ^[12] ^[13] ^{[comm 3]}

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↑ Richard Barron: Homage to glorious Samantabhadra! (rb)
↑ Padmakara: Homage to glorious Samantabhadra! (pmkr)
↑ Claude: This Tibetan line translates as: "Homage to the Glorious Samantabhadra." In more detail: - **དཔལ་** (dpal) - "glorious" or "magnificent," an honorific prefix - **ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་** (kun tu bzang po) - "Samantabhadra," literally meaning "All-Good" or "Ever-Excellent One" - **ལ་** (la) - "to," a particle indicating the direction of the homage - **ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།** (phyag 'tshal lo) - "I prostrate" or "I pay homage" This is the opening homage line of the text "Chos dbyings rin po che'i mdzod" (The Precious Treasury of the Dharmadhatu). It's traditional for Buddhist texts to begin with a homage to a buddha, bodhisattva, or deity. In the context of this Dzogchen text, Samantabhadra has special significance. In the Nyingma tradition, Samantabhadra is revered as the Primordial Buddha (Adi-Buddha), representing the dharmakaya—the ultimate, unmanifested nature of enlightenment beyond form and concept. This homage establishes the lineage and spiritual authority of the teachings that follow in the text. (Claude Sonnet 3.7)
↑ Richard Barron: Naturally occurring timeless awareness—–utterly lucid awakened mind––
is something marvelous and superb, primordially and spontaneously present.
It is the treasury from which comes the universe of appearances and possibilities, whether of samsara or nirvana.
Homage to that unwavering state, free of elaboration. (rb)
↑ Padmakara: Marvelous wonder,
Present of itself from the beginning,
Primordial wisdom,
Luminous and self- arisen,
The enlightened mind!
This is the treasure mine from which arises
All phenomenal existence,
Samsara and nirvana,
The world and its inhabitants.
I bow in homage to this unmoving freedom
From conceptual elaboration. (pmkr)
↑ Erik Pema Kunsang: Primordial self-existence, wondrous, marvelous Dharma;
Self-arisen wisdom, luminous bodhicitta;
Treasury, source of the rising of all the phenomenal world;
The vessel as well as the essence, saṃsāra as well as nirvāṇa;
I prostrate to that motionless simplicity.(epk)
↑ Shtr: Spontaneously accomplished from the beginning, amazing sublime essence;
Self-originated primordial wisdom, luminously clear compassionate mind;
The treasury that is the source of appearance and existence, the universe and its inhabitants, samsara and nirvana.
Homage to the unwavering state that is free from elaboration.(shtr)
↑
Claude: Here's the translation of this beautiful verse: "I pay homage to the unmoving and the unelaborated, The wondrous, extraordinary dharma spontaneously present from the very beginning, The self-arising primordial wisdom, the clear light of awakened mind, The treasury from which manifest appearances, existence, environment, beings, samsara, and nirvana." In more detail:
- - Line 1**: "གདོད་ནས་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ངོ་མཚར་རྨད་ཀྱི་ཆོས།"
- The marvelous, amazing phenomena/dharma that has been spontaneously accomplished (ལྷུན་གྲུབ་) from the primordial beginning (གདོད་ནས་)
- - Line 2**: "རང་བྱུང་ཡེ་ཤེས་འོད་གསལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།"
- The self-originating (རང་བྱུང་) primordial wisdom (ཡེ་ཤེས་), the luminous clear light (འོད་གསལ་) of enlightened mind (བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་)
- - Line 3**: "སྣང་སྲིད་སྣོད་བཅུད་འཁོར་འདས་འབྱུང་བའི་མཛོད།"
- The treasury (མཛོད་) that is the source of all appearances and existence (སྣང་སྲིད་), the container and its contents (སྣོད་བཅུད་) - meaning the universe and beings - and both samsara and nirvana (འཁོར་འདས་)
- - Line 4**: "མི་གཡོ་སྤྲོས་དང་བྲལ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།"
- I prostrate to/pay homage to (ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ་) that which is unmoving (མི་གཡོ་) and free from conceptual elaboration (སྤྲོས་དང་བྲལ་) This verse is expressing profound Dzogchen concepts, paying homage to the absolute nature of reality that transcends conceptual constructs yet manifests as all phenomena. The verse beautifully captures key Dzogchen terms including spontaneous presence (ལྷུན་གྲུབ་), primordial wisdom (ཡེ་ཤེས་), and freedom from elaboration (སྤྲོས་བྲལ་). (Claude Sonnet 3.7)
↑ Richard Barron: The very pinnacle of spiritual approaches, the expanse in which the sun and moon orbit the most majestic mountain,
is the expanse of the vajra heart essence––spontaneously present and utterly lucid––
the expanse of the naturally settled state that entails no effort or achievement.
Listen as I explain this superb, timelessly infinite expanse. (rb)
↑ Padmakara: The supreme peak, the Sumeru of all the vehicles,
The radiant expanse of sun and moon,
Luminous and present of itself—This
is the vast expanse of vajra essence.
Beyond all effort and all practice,
It is the vast expanse,
The natural state beyond all fabrication.
Listen to me now, for I shall tell you
Of this wondrous and primordial immensity. (pmkr)
↑ Erik Pema Kunsang: Peak of the yaanas, Mount Meru; Space of the sun and moon;
Naturally radiant Space; Space of the vajra heart;
Natural state of Space existing as it is;
Without any effort; without any act of being established;
Listen while I explain the space of dharmadhaatu,
Wondrous in its rising, eternal, and universal.(epk)
↑ Shtr: The highest peak of the vehicles is like the King of Mountains, abiding within the expanse of the sun and moon,
Luminously clear, spontaneously accomplished, the expanse of indestructible essence.
Without searching or striving is the simply natural expanse,
Primordially pervasive and sublime - listen, I will elucidate.(shtr)
↑
Claude: Here's the translation of this verse: "Listen as I explain the marvelously manifested primordial vastness: The expansive realm of sun and moon atop the king of mountains, the pinnacle of all vehicles, The expansive realm of clear light, spontaneously accomplished vajra essence, The expansive realm of natural flow, without effort or achievement." In more detail:
- - Line 1**: "ཐེག་པའི་ཡང་རྩེ་རི་རྒྱལ་ཉི་ཟླའི་ཀློང༌།"
- The vast expanse (ཀློང་) of sun and moon (ཉི་ཟླའི་) at the king of mountains (རི་རྒྱལ་), the pinnacle (ཡང་རྩེ་) of all vehicles (ཐེག་པའི་) - This metaphorically describes Dzogchen as the highest teaching (pinnacle of the mountain) among all Buddhist approaches (vehicles)
- - Line 2**: "འོད་གསལ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོའི་ཀློང༌།"
- The expansive realm of clear light (འོད་གསལ་), spontaneously accomplished (ལྷུན་གྲུབ་), vajra essence (རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོའི་) - These are key Dzogchen terms describing the fundamental nature of mind
- - Line 3**: "རྩོལ་ཞིང་སྒྲུབ་མེད་རང་བཞིན་བབས་ཀྱི་ཀློང༌།"
- The expanse of natural flow (རང་བཞིན་བབས་ཀྱི་), without effort (རྩོལ་) or achievement (སྒྲུབ་མེད་) - This describes the effortless nature of the Dzogchen approach
- - Line 4**: "ཡེ་འབྱམས་རྨད་དུ་བྱུང་བ་བཤད་ཀྱིས་ཉོན།"
- Listen (ཉོན) as I explain (བཤད་ཀྱིས་) the marvelously manifested (རྨད་དུ་བྱུང་བ་) primordial vastness (ཡེ་འབྱམས་) This verse serves as an introduction to the text, inviting the reader to listen to the explanation of the profound Dzogchen teachings that will follow. It emphasizes three key aspects of Dzogchen: its supreme position among Buddhist teachings, its luminous and spontaneous nature, and its quality of effortlessness. (Claude Sonnet 3.7)

[2] Richard Barron: Homage to glorious Samantabhadra! (rb)

[3] Padmakara: Homage to glorious Samantabhadra! (pmkr)

[4] Claude: This Tibetan line translates as: "Homage to the Glorious Samantabhadra." In more detail: - **དཔལ་** (dpal) - "glorious" or "magnificent," an honorific prefix - **ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་** (kun tu bzang po) - "Samantabhadra," literally meaning "All-Good" or "Ever-Excellent One" - **ལ་** (la) - "to," a particle indicating the direction of the homage - **ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།** (phyag 'tshal lo) - "I prostrate" or "I pay homage" This is the opening homage line of the text "Chos dbyings rin po che'i mdzod" (The Precious Treasury of the Dharmadhatu). It's traditional for Buddhist texts to begin with a homage to a buddha, bodhisattva, or deity. In the context of this Dzogchen text, Samantabhadra has special significance. In the Nyingma tradition, Samantabhadra is revered as the Primordial Buddha (Adi-Buddha), representing the dharmakaya—the ultimate, unmanifested nature of enlightenment beyond form and concept. This homage establishes the lineage and spiritual authority of the teachings that follow in the text. (Claude Sonnet 3.7)

[5] Richard Barron: Naturally occurring timeless awareness—–utterly lucid awakened mind––
is something marvelous and superb, primordially and spontaneously present.
It is the treasury from which comes the universe of appearances and possibilities, whether of samsara or nirvana.
Homage to that unwavering state, free of elaboration. (rb)

[6] Padmakara: Marvelous wonder,
Present of itself from the beginning,
Primordial wisdom,
Luminous and self- arisen,
The enlightened mind!
This is the treasure mine from which arises
All phenomenal existence,
Samsara and nirvana,
The world and its inhabitants.
I bow in homage to this unmoving freedom
From conceptual elaboration. (pmkr)

[7] Erik Pema Kunsang: Primordial self-existence, wondrous, marvelous Dharma;
Self-arisen wisdom, luminous bodhicitta;
Treasury, source of the rising of all the phenomenal world;
The vessel as well as the essence, saṃsāra as well as nirvāṇa;
I prostrate to that motionless simplicity.(epk)

[8] Shtr: Spontaneously accomplished from the beginning, amazing sublime essence;
Self-originated primordial wisdom, luminously clear compassionate mind;
The treasury that is the source of appearance and existence, the universe and its inhabitants, samsara and nirvana.
Homage to the unwavering state that is free from elaboration.(shtr)

[9] Claude: Here's the translation of this beautiful verse: "I pay homage to the unmoving and the unelaborated, The wondrous, extraordinary dharma spontaneously present from the very beginning, The self-arising primordial wisdom, the clear light of awakened mind, The treasury from which manifest appearances, existence, environment, beings, samsara, and nirvana." In more detail:
Line 1**: "གདོད་ནས་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ངོ་མཚར་རྨད་ཀྱི་ཆོས།"
- The marvelous, amazing phenomena/dharma that has been spontaneously accomplished (ལྷུན་གྲུབ་) from the primordial beginning (གདོད་ནས་)
Line 2**: "རང་བྱུང་ཡེ་ཤེས་འོད་གསལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།"
- The self-originating (རང་བྱུང་) primordial wisdom (ཡེ་ཤེས་), the luminous clear light (འོད་གསལ་) of enlightened mind (བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་)
Line 3**: "སྣང་སྲིད་སྣོད་བཅུད་འཁོར་འདས་འབྱུང་བའི་མཛོད།"
- The treasury (མཛོད་) that is the source of all appearances and existence (སྣང་སྲིད་), the container and its contents (སྣོད་བཅུད་) - meaning the universe and beings - and both samsara and nirvana (འཁོར་འདས་)
Line 4**: "མི་གཡོ་སྤྲོས་དང་བྲལ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།"
- I prostrate to/pay homage to (ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ་) that which is unmoving (མི་གཡོ་) and free from conceptual elaboration (སྤྲོས་དང་བྲལ་) This verse is expressing profound Dzogchen concepts, paying homage to the absolute nature of reality that transcends conceptual constructs yet manifests as all phenomena. The verse beautifully captures key Dzogchen terms including spontaneous presence (ལྷུན་གྲུབ་), primordial wisdom (ཡེ་ཤེས་), and freedom from elaboration (སྤྲོས་བྲལ་). (Claude Sonnet 3.7)

[9] Line 1**: "གདོད་ནས་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ངོ་མཚར་རྨད་ཀྱི་ཆོས།"

[10] Line 1**: "གདོད་ནས་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ངོ་མཚར་རྨད་ཀྱི་ཆོས།"

[11] Line 2**: "རང་བྱུང་ཡེ་ཤེས་འོད་གསལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།"

[12] Line 2**: "རང་བྱུང་ཡེ་ཤེས་འོད་གསལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།"

[13] Line 3**: "སྣང་སྲིད་སྣོད་བཅུད་འཁོར་འདས་འབྱུང་བའི་མཛོད།"

[14] Line 3**: "སྣང་སྲིད་སྣོད་བཅུད་འཁོར་འདས་འབྱུང་བའི་མཛོད།"

[15] Line 4**: "མི་གཡོ་སྤྲོས་དང་བྲལ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།"

[16] Line 4**: "མི་གཡོ་སྤྲོས་དང་བྲལ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།"

[11] Richard Barron: The very pinnacle of spiritual approaches, the expanse in which the sun and moon orbit the most majestic mountain,
is the expanse of the vajra heart essence––spontaneously present and utterly lucid––
the expanse of the naturally settled state that entails no effort or achievement.
Listen as I explain this superb, timelessly infinite expanse. (rb)

[12] Padmakara: The supreme peak, the Sumeru of all the vehicles,
The radiant expanse of sun and moon,
Luminous and present of itself—This
is the vast expanse of vajra essence.
Beyond all effort and all practice,
It is the vast expanse,
The natural state beyond all fabrication.
Listen to me now, for I shall tell you
Of this wondrous and primordial immensity. (pmkr)

[13] Erik Pema Kunsang: Peak of the yaanas, Mount Meru; Space of the sun and moon;
Naturally radiant Space; Space of the vajra heart;
Natural state of Space existing as it is;
Without any effort; without any act of being established;
Listen while I explain the space of dharmadhaatu,
Wondrous in its rising, eternal, and universal.(epk)

[14] Shtr: The highest peak of the vehicles is like the King of Mountains, abiding within the expanse of the sun and moon,
Luminously clear, spontaneously accomplished, the expanse of indestructible essence.
Without searching or striving is the simply natural expanse,
Primordially pervasive and sublime - listen, I will elucidate.(shtr)

[15] Claude: Here's the translation of this verse: "Listen as I explain the marvelously manifested primordial vastness: The expansive realm of sun and moon atop the king of mountains, the pinnacle of all vehicles, The expansive realm of clear light, spontaneously accomplished vajra essence, The expansive realm of natural flow, without effort or achievement." In more detail:
Line 1**: "ཐེག་པའི་ཡང་རྩེ་རི་རྒྱལ་ཉི་ཟླའི་ཀློང༌།"
- The vast expanse (ཀློང་) of sun and moon (ཉི་ཟླའི་) at the king of mountains (རི་རྒྱལ་), the pinnacle (ཡང་རྩེ་) of all vehicles (ཐེག་པའི་) - This metaphorically describes Dzogchen as the highest teaching (pinnacle of the mountain) among all Buddhist approaches (vehicles)
Line 2**: "འོད་གསལ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོའི་ཀློང༌།"
- The expansive realm of clear light (འོད་གསལ་), spontaneously accomplished (ལྷུན་གྲུབ་), vajra essence (རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོའི་) - These are key Dzogchen terms describing the fundamental nature of mind
Line 3**: "རྩོལ་ཞིང་སྒྲུབ་མེད་རང་བཞིན་བབས་ཀྱི་ཀློང༌།"
- The expanse of natural flow (རང་བཞིན་བབས་ཀྱི་), without effort (རྩོལ་) or achievement (སྒྲུབ་མེད་) - This describes the effortless nature of the Dzogchen approach
Line 4**: "ཡེ་འབྱམས་རྨད་དུ་བྱུང་བ་བཤད་ཀྱིས་ཉོན།"
- Listen (ཉོན) as I explain (བཤད་ཀྱིས་) the marvelously manifested (རྨད་དུ་བྱུང་བ་) primordial vastness (ཡེ་འབྱམས་) This verse serves as an introduction to the text, inviting the reader to listen to the explanation of the profound Dzogchen teachings that will follow. It emphasizes three key aspects of Dzogchen: its supreme position among Buddhist teachings, its luminous and spontaneous nature, and its quality of effortlessness. (Claude Sonnet 3.7)

[22] Line 1**: "ཐེག་པའི་ཡང་རྩེ་རི་རྒྱལ་ཉི་ཟླའི་ཀློང༌།"

[23] Line 1**: "ཐེག་པའི་ཡང་རྩེ་རི་རྒྱལ་ཉི་ཟླའི་ཀློང༌།"

[24] Line 2**: "འོད་གསལ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོའི་ཀློང༌།"

[25] Line 2**: "འོད་གསལ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོའི་ཀློང༌།"

[26] Line 3**: "རྩོལ་ཞིང་སྒྲུབ་མེད་རང་བཞིན་བབས་ཀྱི་ཀློང༌།"

[27] Line 3**: "རྩོལ་ཞིང་སྒྲུབ་མེད་རང་བཞིན་བབས་ཀྱི་ཀློང༌།"

[28] Line 4**: "ཡེ་འབྱམས་རྨད་དུ་བྱུང་བ་བཤད་ཀྱིས་ཉོན།"

[29] Line 4**: "ཡེ་འབྱམས་རྨད་དུ་བྱུང་བ་བཤད་ཀྱིས་ཉོན།"

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