The Mirror of the Mind of Samantabhadra


The Mirror of the Mind of Samantabhadra is one of the Seventeen tantras of Dzogchen Upadesha.

English discourse

In the Lungi Terdzö the prose autocommentary by Longchenpa to his Chöying Dzö -- which are numbered amongst the Seven Treasuries -- the following embedded quotation from this Tantra has been rendered into English by Barron, et al. and the Wylie has been secured from Wikisource and interspersed and embedded in the English gloss for :wikt:probity|probity:
"You should understand that the nature of all phenomena is that of the five aspects of Samantabhadra . What are these? you ask . They are Samantabhadra as nature , Samantabhadra as adornment , Samantabhadra as teacher , Samantabhadra as awareness , and Samantabhadra as realization ."

"Phenomena" in the abovementioned quotation should be understood as a rendering of dharmas which may also be glossed "constituent factors". "Nature" is an analogue of svabhava. "Awareness" is a gloss of rigpa. Though Buddhism is for the most part non-theistic, Dzogchen and other Buddhadharma traditions often personify attributes or qualities with a deity in textual discourse as Samantabhadra herein is the Adi-Buddha and is iconographically "attributeless" and "unadorned", the "primordial Buddha", and Samantabhadra is often so for many textual traditions of Dzogchen in both lineagues of Bonpo and Nyingmapa. Following Longchenpa, wherever Samantabhadra is Samantabhadri is evident indivisibly in Yab-yum.

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