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The Oral Teaching of the Lord of Secrets
(gsang bdag zhal lung)
by Minling Lochen Dharma Śrī
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Posted: June 25, 2003
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Brief title: The Oral Teaching of the Lord of Secrets (gsang bdag zhal lung)
Full title: The Oral Teaching of the Lord of Secrets: An Eloquent General Survey of the Magical Web of Emanations, the King of Tantras The Glorious and Definitive Nucleus of Mystery
Author: Minling Lochen Dharma Śrī Chöphel Gyatso (smin gling lo chen chos dpal rgya mtsho, 1654-1718)
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Cross-references: THDL Text Ng.dg.192
Description: A general survey 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 is one of the central examples representing the more conservative "transmitted precepts" (bka' ma) tradition of exegesis, which explained the tantra as contextualized within its own Mahāyoga classes of tantra rather than drawing upon either Great Perfection (rdzogs chen) or new revelations (gter ma). Minling Lochen Dharma Śrī was a central figure in the renewal of the transmitted precepts tradition within the Nyingma school, and offering a renewed set of commentaries on the tradition's central tantra was an important aspect of that.
Credits: this text has been input twice and corrected at Shechen Monastery in the 1990s.
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