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Dispelling All Darkness Throughout the Ten Directions
(phyogs bcu mun sel)
by Longchenpa
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Posted: June 24, 2003
Revised: not as yet
Brief title: Dispelling All Darkness Throughout the Ten Directions (phyogs bcu mun sel) by Longchenpa
Full title: Dispelling all Darkness Throughout the Ten Directions: A Commentary on the Glorious and Definitive Nucleus of Mystery Tantra (dpal gsang ba snying po de kho na nyid nges pa'i rgyud kyi grel ba phyogs bcu'i mun sel/)
Author: Longchen Rabjam Drimä Özer (klong chen rab 'byams dri med 'od zer, 1308-1363)
Length: 616 pages
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Description: A detailed commentary on The Nucleus Mystery of Tantra (gsang ba snying po, Skt. Guhyagarbha Tantra), the most important classic tantra for the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism. This specific commentary was famed for its Great Perfection (rdzogs chen) oriented reading of the tantra, which itself is normally treated as part of the separate Mahāyoga classes of tantra.
Credits: this text has been input twice at Shechen Monastery by Sonam Wangpo and Urgyen Phuntsok respectively in 1996; the latter then compared the two in October 1999, and created the current text from that.
Corrections: none as of now
Work status: no known activity. Volunteer markup offers are appreciated!