Toh 1473 · classical Tibetan · Tengyur edition

Clarification of the Generic Fire Offering of the Glorious Saṃvara

Translated from the Tibetan by buddhist-nlp/mitra-qwen35-translate · machine-assisted

Edition 1.0 · 2026 · not a critical edition machine draft

Catalogue: Toh 1473
Genre: Ritual
Period: classical Tibetan
Edition: Tengyur vol. 022_རྒྱུད་འགྲེལ།_ཞ.txt
Extent: 2 passages · 1,377 Tibetan characters · 355 English words
Translation: buddhist-nlp/mitra-qwen35-translate (English, machine-assisted)
Status: Edition 1.0 · 2026 · machine draft
Rights: Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)

This text provides a concise procedural manual for the generic fire offering (homa) associated with the deity Cakrasaṃvara. The work outlines a linear ritual sequence, beginning with the physical preparation of the hearth and the drawing of designs, followed by the offering of five substances and the ignition of the fire. It instructs the practitioner on the generation of the deity and the use of specific invocations, such as ehi, to invite wisdom beings. The process concludes with the offering of torma, the use of a hundred-syllable mantra to rectify ritual errors, the dedication of merit, and the formal dismissal of the fire god, Agni. By condensing these steps, the text commits the reader to a rigorous adherence to ritual precision, ensuring that the transition from physical preparation to metaphysical accomplishment is handled according to established tantric protocols.

Provenance

About this text

A procedural manual for the general fire offering associated with Cakrasaṃvara, the bde mchog gi sbyin sreg spyi'i gsal byed belongs to the classical Tibetan tradition. The work is attributed to the Indian author Padmaghoṣa. It is preserved in the Tengyur, specifically volume ཞ, where it is situated within the collection of the Śaṃvara and Related Tantras and spans one page. The text enacts a precise ritual sequence for the homa, beginning with the preparation of the hearth and the drawing of designs, followed by the stacking of fuel and the offering of five substances. It details the ignition of the fire, the generation of the deity, and the invitation of wisdom beings through specific invocations. The ritual concludes with the offering of torma, the rectification of errors via the hundred-syllable mantra, the dedication of virtue, and the dismissal of the fire god, Agni. A scholar or serious reader consults this text today to understand the rigorous adherence to ritual precision required to transition from physical preparation to metaphysical accomplishment according to established tantric protocols.

Sanskrit title: not recorded
Indian author: Padmaghoṣa
Tibetan translators: not recorded
Canonical collection: Śaṃvara and Related Tantras
Genre: Ritual
Source edition: Tengyur, vol. ཞ
Period: classical Tibetan

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Summary & commentary

Significance

The work is significant as it illustrates the integration of Vedic fire elements, such as the deity Agni, within the framework of Vajrayana ritual practice. For the modern reader, it demonstrates the technical nature of tantric liturgy and the importance of corrective measures, like the hundred-syllable mantra, in maintaining ritual purity.

Structure

Passages	Section	Description
1	Ritual Preparation and Invocation	Instructions on hearth preparation, fuel stacking, fire ignition, and the generation of the deity.
2	Conclusion and Dismissal	Guidelines for torma offerings, ritual rectification, dedication of virtue, and the departure of Agni.

Themes

Ritual Procedure (1-2)
Deity Generation and Invocation (1)
Ritual Rectification (2)

Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.

AnuvādaClarification of the Generic Fire Offering of the Glorious Saṃvara·

༄། ། བདེ་མཆོག་གི་སྦྱིན་སྲེག་སྤྱིའི་གསལ་བྱེད་བཞུགས། ༄༅༅། ། འཕགས་པ་ཀུན་དུ་བཟང་པོ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། སྡོམ་ནི། ཐབ་ ཁུང་བཅས་ཏེ་རི་མོ་བྲི། ། བུད་ཤིང་བརྩིགས་ཏེ་ལྔ་ཡིས་མཆོད། ། ཛྭ་ལས་མེ་སྦར་ལྷ་བསྐྱེད་ཅིང་། ། ཨེ་ཧི་སོགས་ཀྱིས་ཡེ་ཤེས་གཞུག། སརྦྦས་ཡུངས་ཀར་ཆུ་ཟན་གྱིས། ། རྡུལ་བསལ་སུཾ་བྷས་བསང་བར་བྱ། ། ཨརྒྷཾ་ལ་སོགས་ཕུལ་ནས་ནི། ། ཨགྣེས་མར་གྱི་སྲེག་བླུགས་ གསུམ། ། དབུལ་ལོ་ཏིལ་དང་མ་ཉམས་འབྲས། ། སརྦྦ་དང་ནི་པུཥྚས་དབུལ། ། གཙོ་བོ་གསུམ་ལས་ཁྱད་པར་བསྲེ། ། སརྦྦ་སཾ་པད་སྔགས་ཀྱིས་ནི། ། ཞོ་ཟན་བུ་རམ་ལས་སྦྱར་བསྲེག། དཱུར་བ་མེ་ཏོག་བཅས་པ་ནི། ། བཛྲ་ཨཱ་ཡུས་བསྲེག་པར་བྱ། ། ཨ་པྲ་ཏི་ཡིས་ཀུ་ཤ་དང་། ། ཡམ་ ཤིང་ཏིལ་གྱི་སྣ་ལའོ། ། འབྲུ་དང་འབྲས་གཞན་ཇི་སྙེད་པ། ། སྐབས་འདིར་སྔར་བཞིན་གསུམ་གསུམ་དབུལ། ། ན་མཿཨགྣེར་བཅས་པ་ཡིས། ། པཱུརྞ་ཧུར་ཏི་དབུལ་བར་བྱ། ། དུང་ཆོས་ཆུ་ཡིས་བསངས་ནས་ནི། ། ལྔ་ཡིས་མཆོད་དེ་ཞུ་བར་བསམ། ། དེར་ནི་རྟེན་དང་བརྟེན་པར་བཅས། ། དཀྱིལ་ འཁོར་མན་ངག་བཞིན་དུ་བསམ། ། བསང་བ་ཨརྒྷཾ་ལ་སོགས་པ། ། སྔར་བཞིན་རྣམ་པ་ལྔ་ཡིས་མཆོད། ། ཡེ་ཤེས་ལྔ་ཡི་གསང་སྔགས་ཀྱིས། ། ཡམ་ཤིང་སྐུ་ཤ་མ་གཏོགས་པ། ། པཱུརྞ་ཧུར་ཏིའི་མཐར་ཐུག་པ། ། རྫས་རྣམས་སྔར་བཞིན་བསྲེག་པར་བྱ། ། པཱུརྞ་རྐང་པ་བརྒྱད་པས་སོ། ། བསྒྲུབ་པའི་སྦྱིན་སྲེག་འདི་རུ་བསྐྱར། ། མིན་ན་དེའི་རྗེས་བསྡུས་ལྷག་བསྲེག། དེ་ནི་ཡི་གེ་གསུམ་པོའམ། ། རྐང་པ་བརྒྱད་པའི་སྔགས་ཀྱིས་སོ། ། བསང་བ་བྱས་ཏེ་ལྔ་ཡིས་མཆོད། །

The General Clarification of the Homa for Cakrasaṃvara Homage to the noble Samantabhadra! The summary is as follows: Prepare the hearth and draw the designs. Stack the fuel and offer the five [substances]. Ignite the fire with jvala and generate the deity. With ehi and so forth, cause the wisdom beings to enter. With sarva, use white mustard, water, and food to clear away dust. With sumbha, perform the cleansing. Having offered arghaṃ and so forth, Offer three oblations of ghee with agni. Offer sesame and unbroken rice with sarva and puṣṭa. Mix the specific substances from the three principal [deities]. With the sarvasampat mantra, Offer the burnt offering of curd-rice mixed with molasses. With vajrāyuṣ, burn the dūrvā grass and flowers. With apratihata, [burn] the kuśa grass, The firewood, and the tips of the sesame. Whatever other grains and fruits there may be, Offer them three by three here as before. With namaḥ agnaye and so forth, Offer the pūrṇāhuti. Having cleansed with water from a conch, Offer the five [substances] and visualize [the deity] melting. There, visualize the mandala together with the support and the supported, According to the pith instructions. Perform the cleansing with arghaṃ and so forth, And offer the five types as before. With the secret mantras of the five wisdoms, Except for the firewood and kuśa grass, Burn the substances up to the end of the pūrṇāhuti, As before, using the eight-line [mantra]. In this accomplishment homa, repeat [the offerings]. Otherwise, after that, burn the remaining [substances] in brief. This is done with the three syllables Or with the eight-line mantra. Having performed the cleansing, offer the five [substances].

definitionསྦྱིན་སྲེག “homa” — The casting of a prescribed offering into a ritual fire. The practice of homa is first attested in pre-Buddhist Vedic literature, and serves as a core, pervasive ritual paradigm in exoteric and esoteric rites in both Bud

definitionའཕགས་པ “ārya” — The Sanskrit ārya has the general meaning of a noble person, one of a higher class or caste. In Buddhist literature, depending on the context, it often means specifically one who has gained the realization of the path an

terminologyལས → “action”. 84000 uses 'action' where the mechanics matter, 'karma' where it is a fixed term.

homonymལས is rendered “action” here; the glossary also records act, Action, activity for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionལས “action” — Matters that govern the saṅgha community’s daily life, regular observances (such as the rains retreat and the restoration ) and special events (like ordination) are ratified by a formal act of the saṅgha. There are one h

periodམེ → “fire”. In ritual and cosmological prose མེ is the element 'fire'; Agni is the deity only where he is named or invoked. Do not capitalise the element.

homonymམེ is rendered “fire” here; the glossary also records Āgneya, Analā, Acalā for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionམེ “fire” — Classified as a “ lord of beings ” ( prajāpati ).

periodལྷ → “god”. Standard 84000 rendering is 'god'; 'deity' where the text contrasts classes of beings.

homonymལྷ is rendered “god” here; the glossary also records deva, divine being, God for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionལྷ “god” — In the most general sense the devas‍—the term is cognate with the English divine ‍—are a class of celestial beings who frequently appear in Buddhist texts, often at the head of the assemblies of nonhuman beings who atten

terminologyཡེ་ཤེས → “wisdom”. Distinguish from ཤེས་རབ (prajñā, 'insight'): ཡེ་ཤེས is the buddhas' non-dual wisdom, ཤེས་རབ the discriminating faculty on the path.

homonymཡེ་ཤེས is rendered “wisdom” here; the glossary also records awareness, Wisdom, knowledge for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionཡེ་ཤེས “wisdom” — The term jñāna is formed by the root jñā , meaning “to know,” “to know of,” “to understand,” “to be aware of,” with the addition of the pratyaya lyuṭ , which can be interpreted as having different values (the instrument

termསྦྱིན་སྲེག → homa

termའཕགས་པ → ārya

termཕྱག་འཚལ → homage

termལས → action

termམེ → fire

termལྷ → god

ཇི་བཞིན་གཏོར་མ་བཏང་ནས་ནི། ། ཡི་གེ་བརྒྱ་པས་ལྷག་ཆད་བསྐང་། ། དངོས་གྲུབ་བླངས་ཏེ་དགེ་རྩ་ བསྔོ། ། པདྨའི་ཕྱག་རྒྱས་བསྡུ་བར་བྱ། ། མེ་ལྷ་ཡང་ནི་གཤེགས་སུ་གསོལ། ། བསྡུས་ལྷག་བསྲེགས་ཏེ་མེ་ལྷ་ཡི། ། སྙིང་གའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་འཁོར་ལོ་བསམ། ། ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི་དཔལ་བདེ་མཆོག་གི་སྦྱིན་སྲེག་སྤྱིའི་གསལ་བྱེད་པདྨ་དབྱངས་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པ་རྫོགས་སོ། ། ། །

Having offered the torma as appropriate, one should rectify any omissions or excesses with the hundred-syllable mantra. Having received the accomplishments, one should dedicate the roots of virtue and perform the withdrawal with the lotus mudrā. One should also request the fire god (Agni) to depart. Having gathered and burned the leftovers, one should visualize the wisdom cakra at the heart of the fire god. Thus concludes "The General Clarification of the Homa of Glorious Cakrasaṃvara," composed by Pema Yang.

structureColophon: closes the text and names the translators or author.

terminologyགཏོར་མ → “offering cake”. 'Torma' is defensible for specialists; in a general text 'offering cake' says what it is.

homonymགཏོར་མ is rendered “offering cake” here; the glossary also records Bali, oblation, bali offering for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionགཏོར་མ “offering cake” — Bali wrested control of the world from the devas , establishing a period of peace and prosperity with no caste distinction. Indra requested Viṣṇu to use his wiles so that the devas could gain the world back from him. He

definitionདངོས་གྲུབ “accomplishment” — Accomplishment or success in general, as well as any particular magical power or ability. In the latter sense, eight are traditionally enumerated, namely the siddhi of the magical sword, of an eye ointment that renders i

definitionརྩ “channel” — The channels are subtle psycho-physical routes which run vertically in the body. There are typically 72,000 channels said to reside in the body. Of these, however, the most important are the three main channels: the cent

definitionམེ་ལྷ “Agni” — This refers to Agni, the Vedic deity of fire, who is also invoked in Buddhist burnt offering rituals.

definitionའཁོར་ལོ “cakra” — Literally “wheel,” cakra is an energy center in the subtle body where subtle channels converge. In tantric Buddhism there are either four or five main cakras. The Hevajra Tantra teaches four cakras, namely the cakras of

adherencePinned rendering paraphrased here: offering cake

termགཏོར་མ → offering cake

termདངོས་གྲུབ → accomplishment

termརྩ → channel

termམེ་ལྷ → Agni

termམེ → fire

termལྷ → god

Terminology used in this text (14)

Term	Rendering	×	Note
སྦྱིན་སྲེག	homa	2
མེ	fire	2	In ritual and cosmological prose མེ is the element 'fire'; Agni is the deity only where he is named or invoked. Do not c
ལྷ	god	2	Standard 84000 rendering is 'god'; 'deity' where the text contrasts classes of beings.
ཡེ་ཤེས	wisdom	2	Distinguish from ཤེས་རབ (prajñā, 'insight'): ཡེ་ཤེས is the buddhas' non-dual wisdom, ཤེས་རབ the discriminating faculty o
འཕགས་པ	ārya	1
ཕྱག་འཚལ	homage	1
ལས	action	1	84000 uses 'action' where the mechanics matter, 'karma' where it is a fixed term.
སྔགས	mantra	1	སྔགས་པ is a mantra-practitioner, not 'the mantric one'.
ཆོས	dharma	1	In Abhidharma lists (སྐྱེ་མཆེད, ཁམས) ཆོས is 'phenomena', the objects of mind — not the Buddhist teaching. Same word, two
གཏོར་མ	offering cake	1	'Torma' is defensible for specialists; in a general text 'offering cake' says what it is.
དངོས་གྲུབ	accomplishment	1
རྩ	channel	1
མེ་ལྷ	Agni	1
འཁོར་ལོ	cakra	1

Colophon

Source: tengyur vol. 022_རྒྱུད་འགྲེལ།_ཞ.txt. Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction).

Translation status: 84000 catalogue + registry; grade no-translation-known; checked 2026-11-10.

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