Tantric Techniques (99 page)

Sh
ā
kyamitra (
sh
ā
kya’i bshes gnyen
)

Ornament of Kosala

kosal
ā
la
ṃ
k
ā
ratattvasa
ṃ
graha
ṭī
k
ā

de kho na nyid bsdus pa’i rgya cher bshad pa ko sa la’i rgyan P3326, vols. 70-71; D2503, vol.
yi.

Shraddh
ā
karavarma

Introduction to the Meaning of the Highest Yoga Tantras

yog
ā
nuttaratantr
ā
rth
ā
vat
ā
rasa
ṃ
graha

rnal ’byor bla med pa’i rgyud kyi don la ’jug pa bsdus pa P4536, vol. 81; Toh. 3713

Shr
ī
dhara

Commentary on the Difficult Points of the “Yam
ā
ri Tantra”: Innate Illumination

yam
ā
ritantrapañjik
ā
sahaj
ā
loka

gshin rje gshed kyi rgyud kyi dka’ ’grel lhan cig skyes pa’i snang ba P2781, vol. 66

Sö-nam-tzay-mo (
bsod nams rtse mo,
1142-1182)

Presentation of the General Tantra Sets

rgyud sde spyi’i rnam par gzhag pa

Gangtok, ’Bras-ljongs-sa-ngor-chos-tshogs, 1969 Tripi
ṭ
akam
ā
la

Lamp for the Three Modes

nayatrayaprad
ī
pa

tshul gsum gyi sgron ma Toh. 3707; Dharma vol. 62

Tsong-kha-pa Lo-sang-drak-pa (
tsong kha pa blo bzang grags pa,
1357-1419)

Explanation of (N
ā
g
ā
rjuna’s) “Treatise on the Middle”: Ocean of Reasoning / Great Commentary on (N
ā
g
ā
rjuna’s) “Treatise on the Middle”

dbu ma rtsa ba’i tshig le’ur byas pa shes rab ces bya ba’i rnam bshad rigs pa’i rgya mtsho

/ rtsa shes
ṭ
ik chen

408
Tantric Techniques

P6153, vol. 156. Also: Sarnath, India: Pleasure of Elegant Sayings Printing Press, n.d. Also:
rJe tsong kha pa’i gsung dbu ma’i lta ba’i skor,
vols. 1-2. Sarnath, India: Pleasure of Elegant Sayings Press, 1975. Also: Delhi: Ngawang Gelek, 1975. Also: Delhi: Guru Deva, 1979.

English translation (chap. 2): Jeffrey Hopkins.
Ocean of Reasoning
. Dharmsala, India: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1974.

Great Exposition of the Stages of Secret Mantra / The Stages of the Path to a Conqueror and Pervasive Master, a Great Vajradhara: Revealing All Secret Topics

sngags rim chen mo / rgyal ba khyab bdag rdo rje ’chang chen po’i lam gyi rim pa gsang

ba kun gyi gnad rnam par phye ba

P6210, vol. 161. Also: Delhi: Ngawang Gelek, 1975. Also: Delhi: Guru Deva, 1979.

English translation (chap. 1): H.H. the Dalai Lama, Tsong-kha-pa, and Jeffrey Hopkins.
Tantra in Tibet.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1977; reprint, with minor corrections, Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1987.

English translation (chaps. 2-3): H.H. the Dalai Lama, Tsong-kha-pa, and Jeffrey Hopkins.
The Yoga of Tibet.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981; reprinted as
Deity Yoga.
Itha-ca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1987.

English translation (chap. 4): H.H. the Dalai Lama, Dzong-ka-ba, and Jeffrey Hopkins.
Yo-ga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2005.

Great Exposition of the Stages of the Path / Stages of the Path to Enlightenment Thoroughly Teaching All the Stages of Practice of the Three Types of Beings

lam rim chen mo / skyes bu gsum gyi nyams su blang ba’i rim pa thams cad tshang bar

ston pa’i byang chub lam gyi rim pa

P6001, vol. 152. Also: Dharmsala, India: Tibetan Cultural Printing Press, 1964. Also: Delhi: Ngawang Gelek, 1975. Also: Delhi: Guru Deva, 1979.

English translation: Tsong-kha-pa.
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
3 vols. Trans. and ed. Joshua W. C. Cutler and Guy Newland. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2000-2004.

English translation of the part on the excessively broad object of negation: Elizabeth Napper.
Dependent-Arising and Emptiness,
153-215
.
London: Wisdom Publications, 1989. English translation of the parts on calm abiding and special insight: Alex Wayman.
Calm-ing the Mind and Discerning the Real,
81-431. New York: Columbia University Press,

1978; reprint, New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1979.

Extensive Explanation of (Chandrak
ī
rti’s) “Supplement to (N
ā
g
ā
rjuna’s) ‘Treatise on the Middle’”:

Illumination of the Thought

dbu ma la ’jug pa’i rgya cher bshad pa dgongs pa rab gsal

P6143, vol. 154. Also: Sarnath, India: Pleasure of Elegant Sayings Press, 1973. Also: Delhi: Ngawang Gelek, 1975. Also: Delhi: Guru Deva, 1979.

English translation (chapters 1-5): Jeffrey Hopkins.
Compassion in Tibetan Buddhism,
93—

230. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1980.

English translation (chap. 6, stanzas 1-7): Jeffrey Hopkins and Anne C. Klein.
Path to the Middle: Madhyamaka Philosophy in Tibet: The Oral Scholarship of Kensur Yeshay Tupden,
by Anne C. Klein, 147-183, 252-271. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Medium-Length Exposition of the Stages of the Path / Small Exposition of the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

lam rim ’bring / lam rim chung ngu / skyes bu gsum gyi nyams su blang ba’i byang chub

lam gyi rim pa

P6002, vols. 152-153. Also: Dharmsala, India: Tibetan Cultural Printing Press, 1968. Also: Mundgod, India: dga’ ldan shar rtse, n.d. (includes outline of topics by Trijang Rinbochay). Also: Delhi: Ngawang Gelek, 1975. Also: Delhi: Guru Deva, 1979.

English translation of the section on special insight: Jeffrey Hopkins.
Tsong-kha-pa’s Final

Bibliography
409

Exposition of Wisdom.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2008. Also: Robert Thurman. “The Middle Transcendent Insight.”
Life and Teachings of Tsong Khapa,
108-185. Dharmsala, India: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1982.

Quintessential Instructions on the King of Tantras, the Glorious Guhyasam
ā
ja: Lamp Thoroughly Illuminating the Five Stages

rgyud kyi rgyal po dpal gsang ba ’dus pa’i man ngag rim pa lnga rab tu gsal ba’i sgron

me Varanasi: 1969

Treatise Differentiating the Interpretable and the Def initive: The Essence of Eloquence

drang ba dang nges pa’i don rnam par phye ba’i bstan bcos legs bshad snying po Editions: see the preface to my critical edition,
Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism,
355. Also: Ye shes thabs mkhas.
shar tsong kha pa blo bzang grags pas mdzad pa’i drang ba dang nges pa’i don rnam par phye ba’i bstan bcos legs bshad snying po.
T
ā
la’i bla ma’i ’phags bod, vol. 22. Varanasi, India: v
āṇ
a dbus bod kyi ches mtho’i gtsug lag slob gnyer khang, 1997.

English translation: Prologue and Mind-Only section,
Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism
,
Dynamic Responses to Dzong-ka-ba’s
The Essence of Eloquence, volume 1. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999; Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2000. Also: Robert A. F. Thurman.
Tsong Khapa’s Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence,
185-385. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Chinese translation: Venerable Fa Zun. “Bian Liao Yi Bu Liao Yi Shuo Cang Lun.” In
Xi Zang Fo Jiao Jiao Yi Lun Ji,
2, 159-276. Taipei: Da Sheng Wen Hua Chu Ban She, 1979.

Vajragarbha (
rdo rje snying po
)

Commentary on the Condensation of the Hevajra Tantra

hevajrapi
ṇḍā
rtha
ṭī
k
ā

kye’i rdo rje bsdus pa’i don gyi rgya cher ’grel pa P2310, vol. 53

Vajrap
āṇ
i (
phyag na rdo rje,
born 1017)

Quintessential Instructions on the Stages of the Guru Transmission

gurupara
ṃ
parakramopade
ś
a

bla ma brgyud pa’i rim pa’i man ngag P4539, vol. 81

Varabodhi (
byang chub mchog/ ye shes mchog
)

Condensed Means of Achievement of Susiddhi/ Clear Realization of Susiddhi

susiddhikaras
ā
dhanasa
ṃ
graha

legs par grub par byed pa’i sgrub pa’i thabs bsdus pa P3890, vol. 79

Vasubandhu (
dbyig gnyen,
fl. 360)
Eight Prakara
ṇ
a Treatises

1. Commentary on (Maitreya’s) “Differentiation of the Middle and the Extremes”
   

   madhy
   ā
   ntavibh
   ā
   ga
   ṭī
   k
   ā
   

   dbus dang mtha’ rnam par ’byed pa’i ’grel pa / dbus mtha’i ’grel pa P5528, vol. 108
   

   Sanskrit: Gadjin M. Nagao.
   Madhy
   ā
   ntavibh
   ā
   ga-bh
   āṣ
   ya
   . Tokyo: Suzuki Research Foundation, 1964. Also: Ramchandra Pandeya.
   Madhy
   ā
   ntavibh
   ā
   ga-
   śā
   stra
   . Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1971.
   

   English translation: Stefan Anacker.
   Seven Works of Vasubandhu.
   Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1984. Also: Thomas A. Kochumuttom.
   A Buddhist Doctrine of Experience.
   Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1982. Also, of chapter 1: Th. Stcherbatsky.
   Madhy
   ā
   ntavibh
   ā
   ga: Discourse on Discrimination between Middle and Extremes Ascribed to Bodhisattva Maitreya and Commented by Vasubandhu and Sthiramati
   . Bibliotheca Buddhica 30 (1936). Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag, 1970; reprint, Calcutta: Indian Studies Past and Present, 1971.
   

   410
   Tantric Techniques
   

   

   Also, of chapter 1: David Lasar Friedmann,
   Sthiramati, Madhy
   ā
   ntavibh
   ā
   ga
   ṭī
   k
   ā
   : Analysis of the Middle Path and the Extremes.
   Utrecht, Netherlands: Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1937.
   

2. Explanation of (Maitreya’s) “Ornament for the Great Vehicle S
   ū
   tras”
   

   s
   ū
   tr
   ā
   la
   ṃ
   k
   ā
   r
   ā
   bh
   āṣ
   ya
   

   mdo sde’i rgyan gyi bshad pa P5527, vol. 108
   

   Sanskrit: S. Bagchi.
   Mah
   ā
   y
   ā
   na-S
   ū
   tr
   ā
   la
   ṃ
   k
   ā
   ra of Asa
   ṅ
   ga
   [with Vasubandhu’s commentary]. Buddhist Sanskrit Texts 13. Darbhanga, India: Mithila Institute, 1970.
   

   Sanskrit and translation into French: Sylvain Lévi.
   Mah
   ā
   y
   ā
   nas
   ū
   tr
   ā
   la
   ṃ
   k
   ā
   ra, exposé de la doctrine du grand véhicule selon le système Yog
   ā
   c
   ā
   ra
   . 2 vols. Paris: Libraire Honoré Champion, 1907, 1911.
   

   English translation: L. Jamspal
   et al.
   The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature.
   Editor-in- chief, Robert A.F. Thurman. New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, 2004.
   

3. Principles of Explanation
   

   vy
   ā
   kyhayukti
   

   rnam par bshad pa’i rigs pa P5562, vol. 113
   

4. The Thirty / Treatise on Cognition-Only in Thirty Stanzas
   

   tri
   ṃś
   ik
   ā
   k
   ā
   rik
   ā
   / sarvavijñ
   ā
   nam
   ā
   trade
   ś
   akatri
   ṃś
   akak
   ā
   rik
   ā
   

   sum cu pa’i tshig le’ur byas pa / thams cad rnam rig tsam du ston pa sum cu pa’i tshig le’ur byas pa
   

   P5556, vol. 113
   

   Sanskrit: Sylvain Lévi.
   Vijñaptim
   ā
   trat
   ā
   siddhi / Deux traités de Vasubandhu: Vi
   ṃś
   atik
   ā
   (La Vingtaine) et Tri
   ṃ
   sik
   ā
   (La Trentaine)
   . Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études. Paris: Libraire Honoré Champion, 1925. Also: K. N. Chatterjee.
   Vijñapti-M
   ā
   trat
   ā
   -Siddhi (with Sthiramati's Commentary).
   Varanasi, India: Kishor Vidya Niketan, 1980.
   

   English translation: Stefan Anacker.
   Seven Works of Vasubandhu.
   Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1984. Also: Thomas A. Kochumuttom.
   A Buddhist Doctrine of Experience.
   Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1982.
   

5. Treasury of Manifest Knowledge
   

   abhidharmako
   ś
   ak
   ā
   rik
   ā
   

   chos mngon pa’i mdzod kyi tshig le’ur byas pa P5590, vol. 115
   

   Sanskrit: Swami Dwarikadas Shastri.
   Abhidharmako
   ś
   a & Bh
   āṣ
   ya of
   Ā
   c
   ā
   rya Vasubandhu with Sphu
   ṭā
   rtha Commentary of
   Ā
   c
   ā
   rya Ya
   ś
   omitra
   . Bauddha Bharati Series 5. Banaras, India: Bauddha Bharati, 1970. Also: P. Pradhan.
   Abhidharmako
   ś
   abh
   āṣ
   yam of Vasubandhu.
   Pat-na, India: Jayaswal Research Institute, 1975.
   

   French translation: Louis de La Vallée Poussin.
   L’Abhidharmako
   ś
   a de Vasubandhu
   . 6 vols. Brussels: Institut Belge des Hautes Études Chinoises, 1971.
   

   English translation of the French: Leo M. Pruden.
   Abhidharmako
   ś
   abh
   āṣ
   yam
   . 4 vols. Berkeley, Calif.: Asian Humanities Press, 1988.
   

6. The Twenty
   

   vi
   ṃś
   atik
   ā
   / vi
   ṃś
   ik
   ā
   k
   ā
   rik
   ā
   

   nyi shu pa’i tshig le’ur byas pa P5557, vol. 113
   

   Sanskrit: Sylvain Lévi.
   Vijñaptim
   ā
   trat
   ā
   siddhi / Deux traités de Vasubandhu: Vi
   ṃś
   atik
   ā
   (La Vingtaine) et Tri
   ṃ
   sik
   ā
   (La Trentaine)
   . Bibliotheque de l’École des Hautes Études. Paris: Libraire Honoré Champion, 1925.
   

   English translation: Stefan Anacker.
   Seven Works of Vasubandhu.
   Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1984. Also: Thomas A. Kochumuttom.
   A Buddhist Doctrine of Experience.
   Delhi: Mo—
   

   Bibliography
   411
   

   

   tilal Banarsidass, 1982.
   

   English translation (stanzas 1-10): Gregory A. Hillis. “An Introduction and Translation of Vin
   ī
   tadeva’s Explanation of the First Ten Stanzas of [Vasubandhu’s] Commentary on His ‘Twenty Stanzas,’ with Appended Glossary of Technical Terms.” M.A. thesis, University of Virginia, 1993.
   

7. Work on Achieving Actions
   

   karmasiddhiprakara
   ṇ
   a
   

   las grub pa’i rab tu byed pa P5563, vol. 113
   

   French translation (chap. 17): É. Lamotte. “Le Traité de l’acte de Vasubandhu, Karmasiddhiprakara
   ṇ
   a.”
   Mélanges Chinois et Bouddhiques
   4 (1936): 265-288.
   

8. Work on the Five Aggregates
   pañcaskandhaprakara
   ṇ
   a phung po lnga’i rab tu byed pa P5560, vol. 113