Vima Nyingthig (Tibetan: བི་མ་སྙིང་ཐིག་, Wylie: bi ma snying thig), "Seminal Heart of Vimalamitra", in Tibetan Buddhism is one of the two "seminal heart" (Tibetan: སྙིང་ཐིག, Wylie: snying thig) collections of the menngagde cycle Dzogchen, the other one being "Seminal Heart of the Dakini" (mkha' 'gro snying thig).[1] Traditionally the teachings are ascribed to Vimalamitra,[2] but they were codified and collated by their Tibetan discoverers in the 11th and 12th century.[3] The main discoverer of the Vima Nyingthig was Zhangtön Tashi Dorjé.[4][5][6]
The Vima Nyingthig is founded principally on the seventeen tantras and the Troma tantra.[7] It is the teachings both for and of the panditas (Tibetan: རྒྱ་ཆའེ་བ, Wylie: rgya che ba), brought to Tibet by Vimalamitra.[7]
Contents
The Vima Nyingtik itself consists of three sections:[8]
tantras (rgyud), which refer to the Seventeen Tantras;
The "Seventeen tantras of the esoteric instruction cycle" (Tibetan: མན་ངག་སྡེའི་རྒྱུད་བཅུ་བདུན, Wylie: man ngag sde'i rgyud bcu bdun ) are supports. These seventeen tantras are to be found in the Nyingma Gyubum (Tibetan: རྙིང་མ་རྒྱུད་འབུམ, Wylie: rnying ma rgyud 'bum, "Canon of the Ancient School"), volumes 9 and 10, folio numbers 143–159 of the edition edited by Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, commonly known as Dilgo Khyentse (Thimpu, Bhutan, 1973), reproduced from the manuscript preserved at Tingkye Gonpa Jang (Tibetan: གཏིང་སྐྱེས་དགོན་པ་བྱང, Wylie: gting skyes dgon pa byang) Monastery in Tibet.
Lineage
Rigdzin Kumaradza was a senior disciple of Melong Dorje (1243–1303). Kumaradza studied with the grand master Orgyenpa (1230–1309), who conveyed teachings of "Vimalamitra's Seminal Heart" (Tibetan: བི་མ་སྙིང་ཐིག་, Wylie: bi ma snying thig) upon him.
Testaments of the knowledge-holders
"The Posthumous Teachings of the Vidyadhara" (Tibetan: རིག་འཛིན་གྱི་འདས་རྗེས, Wylie: rig 'dzin gyi 'das-rjes) are found in the Vima Nyingtik. These are the last testaments of the early vidyadharas: Garab Dorje, Mañjuśrīmitra, Sri Singha and Jnanasutra. These testaments are post-humous as they were delivered by the vidhyadhara to their senior disciple from within a thigle of the Five Pure Lights in their rainbow body. In this tradition, the thigle is understood to be comparable to a pure land or mandala. These were first compiled by Vimalamitra in his five series (which consisted of the series of: Golden Letters, Copper Letters, Variegated Letters, Conch Shell Letters and Turquoise Letters). These posthumous teaching belong to the series of the "Golden Letters" (Tibetan: གསེར་ཡིག་ཅན, Wylie: gser yig can).
Last testament of Garab Dorje
"The Three Statement That Strike the Essential Points" or "The Three Vajra Verses" (Tibetan: ཚིག་གསུམ་གནད་དུ་བརྡེག་པ, Wylie: tshig gsum gnad du brdeg pa)
Last testament of Manjushrimitra
"The Six Meditation Experiences" (Tibetan: སྒོམ་ཉམས་དྲུག་པ, Wylie: sgom nyams drug pa)
Last testament of Śrī Singha
"The Seven Nails" (Tibetan: གཟེར་བུ་བདུན་པ, Wylie: gzer bu bdun pa)
Last testament of Jñānasūtra
"The Four Methods of Establishing Absorption" (Tibetan: བཞགས་ཐབས་བཞི་པ, Wylie: bzhags thabs bzhi pa)
Vima Nyingtik: Fourth Volume
The Eleven Themes
Scheidegger (2009: p. 43) in a recent work discusses the first four of "The Eleven Themes" (Tibetan: ཚིག་དོན་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ, Wylie: tshig don bcu gcig pa) a work composed by Longchenpa contained in the fourth volume of the Vima Nyingtik.[13]
Notes
^According to Namkhai Norbu[9] and John Myrdhin Reynolds [10] these agamas were compiled by Vimalamitra (fl. 8th century), and are known as the "five series" (Wylie: sde tshan lnga). They are:
^"Zhangton Tashi Dorje". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
^Germano, David; Gyatso, Janet (2001), "Longchenpa and the Possession of the Dakinis", in White, David Gordon (ed.), Tantra in Practice, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
^Hatchell, Christopher (2014), Naked Seeing The Great Perfection, the Wheel of Time, and Visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet, p. 54. Oxford University Press
^ abThondup, Tulku & Harold Talbott (Editor)(1996). Masters of Meditation and Miracles: Lives of the Great Buddhist Masters of India and Tibet. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Shambhala, South Asia Editions. ISBN1-57062-113-6 (alk. paper); ISBN1-56957-134-1, p.33
^Namkhai, Norbu (1991, author) & Vajranatha (1996, translator). "Forward" in Vajranatha (1996). The Golden Letters. First Edition. Ithaca, New York, USA: Snow Lion Publications. ISBN1-55939-050-6, p.18
^Thondup, Tulku & Harold Talbott (Editor)(1996). Masters of Meditation and Miracles: Lives of the Great Buddhist Masters of India and Tibet. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Shambhala, South Asia Editions. ISBN1-57062-113-6 (alk. paper); ISBN1-56957-134-1, p.362
^Scheidegger, Daniel (2009). "The First Four Themes of Klong chen pa's Tsig don bcu gcig pa". Achard, Jean-Luke (director) (2009). Revue d'Etudes Tibetaines. April 2009. Source: [2] (accessed: Saturday October 31, 2009)
Sources
Buswell, Robert; Lopez, Donald S. Jr. (2014), "rdzogs chen (dzokchen)", in Buswell, Robert; Lopez, Donald S. Jr. (eds.), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princetopn University Press
Germano, David; Gyatso, Janet, "Longchenpa and the Possession of the Dakinis", in White, David Gordon (ed.), Tantra in Practice, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
External links
"Vima_Nyingtik" @ Rigpa Shedra
January 07, 2023
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Vima Nyingthig Tibetan བ མ ས ང ཐ ག Wylie bi ma snying thig Seminal Heart of Vimalamitra in Tibetan Buddhism is one of the two seminal heart Tibetan ས ང ཐ ག Wylie snying thig collections of the menngagde cycle Dzogchen the other one being Seminal Heart of the Dakini mkha gro snying thig 1 Traditionally the teachings are ascribed to Vimalamitra 2 but they were codified and collated by their Tibetan discoverers in the 11th and 12th century 3 The main discoverer of the Vima Nyingthig was Zhangton Tashi Dorje 4 5 6 Contents 1 History 2 Contents 3 Troma Tantra 4 Seventeen tantras 5 Lineage 6 Testaments of the knowledge holders 6 1 Last testament of Garab Dorje 6 2 Last testament of Manjushrimitra 6 3 Last testament of Sri Singha 6 4 Last testament of Jnanasutra 7 Vima Nyingtik Fourth Volume 7 1 The Eleven Themes 8 Notes 9 References 10 Sources 11 External linksHistory EditThe Vima Nyingthig is founded principally on the seventeen tantras and the Troma tantra 7 It is the teachings both for and of the panditas Tibetan ར ཆའ བ Wylie rgya che ba brought to Tibet by Vimalamitra 7 Contents EditThe Vima Nyingtik itself consists of three sections 8 tantras rgyud which refer to the Seventeen Tantras agamas lung which are largely Tibetan syntheses 3 note 1 upadesavargas man ngag these refer to 119 treatises of pith advice Troma Tantra EditThe Troma Tantra or the Ngagsung Tromay Tantra otherwise known as the Ekajaṭĭ Khros Ma i rGyud focuses on rites of the protector Ekajati 12 Seventeen tantras EditMain article Seventeen tantras The Seventeen tantras of the esoteric instruction cycle Tibetan མན ངག ས འ ར ད བཅ བད ན Wylie man ngag sde i rgyud bcu bdun are supports These seventeen tantras are to be found in the Nyingma Gyubum Tibetan ར ང མ ར ད འབ མ Wylie rnying ma rgyud bum Canon of the Ancient School volumes 9 and 10 folio numbers 143 159 of the edition edited by Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche commonly known as Dilgo Khyentse Thimpu Bhutan 1973 reproduced from the manuscript preserved at Tingkye Gonpa Jang Tibetan གཏ ང ས ས དག ན པ བ ང Wylie gting skyes dgon pa byang Monastery in Tibet Lineage EditRigdzin Kumaradza was a senior disciple of Melong Dorje 1243 1303 Kumaradza studied with the grand master Orgyenpa 1230 1309 who conveyed teachings of Vimalamitra s Seminal Heart Tibetan བ མ ས ང ཐ ག Wylie bi ma snying thig upon him Testaments of the knowledge holders Edit The Posthumous Teachings of the Vidyadhara Tibetan ར ག འཛ ན ག འདས ར ས Wylie rig dzin gyi das rjes are found in the Vima Nyingtik These are the last testaments of the early vidyadharas Garab Dorje Manjusrimitra Sri Singha and Jnanasutra These testaments are post humous as they were delivered by the vidhyadhara to their senior disciple from within a thigle of the Five Pure Lights in their rainbow body In this tradition the thigle is understood to be comparable to a pure land or mandala These were first compiled by Vimalamitra in his five series which consisted of the series of Golden Letters Copper Letters Variegated Letters Conch Shell Letters and Turquoise Letters These posthumous teaching belong to the series of the Golden Letters Tibetan གས ར ཡ ག ཅན Wylie gser yig can Last testament of Garab Dorje Edit The Three Statement That Strike the Essential Points or The Three Vajra Verses Tibetan ཚ ག གས མ གནད ད བར ག པ Wylie tshig gsum gnad du brdeg pa Last testament of Manjushrimitra Edit The Six Meditation Experiences Tibetan ས མ ཉམས ད ག པ Wylie sgom nyams drug pa Last testament of Sri Singha Edit The Seven Nails Tibetan གཟ ར བ བད ན པ Wylie gzer bu bdun pa Last testament of Jnanasutra Edit The Four Methods of Establishing Absorption Tibetan བཞགས ཐབས བཞ པ Wylie bzhags thabs bzhi pa Vima Nyingtik Fourth Volume EditThe Eleven Themes Edit Scheidegger 2009 p 43 in a recent work discusses the first four of The Eleven Themes Tibetan ཚ ག ད ན བཅ གཅ ག པ Wylie tshig don bcu gcig pa a work composed by Longchenpa contained in the fourth volume of the Vima Nyingtik 13 Notes Edit According to Namkhai Norbu 9 and John Myrdhin Reynolds 10 these agamas were compiled by Vimalamitra fl 8th century and are known as the five series Wylie sde tshan lnga They are the Golden Letters Wylie gser yig can the Turquoise Letters Wylie gyu yig can the Copper Letters Wylie zangs yig can the Conch Shell Letters Wylie dung yig can the Variegated Letters Wylie phra yig can 11 References Edit Buswell amp Lopez 2014 Gruber Joel 2012 Vimalamitra The Treasury of Lives Retrieved 2017 08 03 a b Germano amp Gyatso 2001 p 244 sfn error no target CITEREFGermanoGyatso2001 help Zhangton Tashi Dorje The Treasury of Lives Retrieved 2022 01 10 Germano David Gyatso Janet 2001 Longchenpa and the Possession of the Dakinis in White David Gordon ed Tantra in Practice Motilal Banarsidass Publ Hatchell Christopher 2014 Naked Seeing The Great Perfection the Wheel of Time and Visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet p 54 Oxford University Press a b Thondup Tulku amp Harold Talbott Editor 1996 Masters of Meditation and Miracles Lives of the Great Buddhist Masters of India and Tibet Boston Massachusetts USA Shambhala South Asia Editions ISBN 1 57062 113 6 alk paper ISBN 1 56957 134 1 p 33 Rigpa Shedra August 2009 Vima Nyingtik Source 1 accessed Saturday October 17 2009 1991 1996 p 18 Namkhai Norbu 1991 author amp Vajranatha 1996 translator Forward in Vajranatha 1996 The Golden Letters First Edition Ithaca New York USA Snow Lion Publications ISBN 1 55939 050 6 p 18 Thondup Tulku amp Harold Talbott Editor 1996 Masters of Meditation and Miracles Lives of the Great Buddhist Masters of India and Tibet Boston Massachusetts USA Shambhala South Asia Editions ISBN 1 57062 113 6 alk paper ISBN 1 56957 134 1 p 362 Scheidegger Daniel 2009 The First Four Themes of Klong chen pa s Tsig don bcu gcig pa Achard Jean Luke director 2009 Revue d Etudes Tibetaines April 2009 Source 2 accessed Saturday October 31 2009 Sources EditBuswell Robert Lopez Donald S Jr 2014 rdzogs chen dzokchen in Buswell Robert Lopez Donald S Jr eds The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism Princetopn University Press Germano David Gyatso Janet Longchenpa and the Possession of the Dakinis in White David Gordon ed Tantra in Practice Motilal Banarsidass Publ External links Edit Vima Nyingtik Rigpa Shedra Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Vima Nyingtik amp oldid 1104948536, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
