Toh 2103 · classical Tibetan · Tengyur edition

Attainment of the Essential Drop

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

Edition 1.0 · 2026 · not a critical edition machine draft

Catalogue: Toh 2103
Genre: Treatise
Period: classical Tibetan
Edition: Tengyur vol. 049_རྒྱུད་འགྲེལ།_ཚི.txt
Extent: 2 passages · 1,548 Tibetan characters · 399 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)

The Attainment of the Essential Drop (Tilakasiddhi) is a technical manual focused on the purification of the mind through the manipulation of bindus (drops). The text positions itself as a method for removing mental stains by employing a specific sequence of bindu-related practices to achieve certainty. The author argues that the accomplishment of the bindu is predicated on five specific components: the unsurpassed awakening of the Buddha, the perfection of application (and single application), abiding in mindfulness and great enjoyment, and the inconceivable. By integrating these five elements, which the text identifies as the quintessence of the Middle Way, the practitioner is said to release their bonds through the authority of the holy mouth. The work commits the reader to a precise meditative or energetic discipline designed to bridge the gap between philosophical understanding of the Middle Way and the actualized experience of liberation.

Provenance

About this text

A treatise on the accomplishment of the bindu, the Tilakasiddhi is a work of classical Tibetan Buddhist literature. It is attributed to the Indian author Avadhūtipa Advayavajra. The text was translated into Tibetan by Prajñāśrījñānakīrti and is preserved in the Tengyur, volume ཚི, where it comprises two pages. Within the canonical structure, it is situated among the Other Skillful Means Tantras. The work enacts a method for removing the stream of stains from the mind through a sequence of bindu practices intended to bring about certainty. It argues that the accomplishment of the bindu is achieved through five elements: the unsurpassed awakening of the Buddha, the perfection of application and single application, abiding in mindfulness and great enjoyment, and the inconceivable. These are presented as the quintessential instructions of the Middle Way, obtained from the Lord of the Hermitage, which serve as the stages for entering the innermost. A scholar or serious reader consults this text today to examine the technical intersection of Middle Way philosophy and the energetic discipline of bindu manipulation designed to release the practitioner's bonds.

Sanskrit title: Tilakasiddhi
Indian author: Avadhūtipa Advayavajra
Tibetan translators: Prajñāśrījñānakīrti
Canonical collection: Other Skillful Means Tantras
Genre: Treatise
Source edition: Tengyur, vol. ཚི
Period: classical Tibetan

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Significance

The work is significant for its attempt to synthesize Middle Way philosophy with the somatic and energetic practices of bindu yoga. For the modern reader, it illustrates the intersection of emptiness-based metaphysics and the technical physiological models characteristic of Indo-Tibetan tantric traditions.

Structure

Passages	Section	Description
1-2	Introduction and Methodology	Provides the Sanskrit and Tibetan titles, an invocation to Mañjuśrī, and outlines the five essential components required for the accomplishment of the bindu.

Themes

Bindu Yoga (1-2)
Mental Purification (1)
Middle Way Quintessence (2)

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

AnuvādaAttainment of the Essential Drop·

༄༅༅། ། ། རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། ཏི་ལ་ཀ་སིདྡྷི། བོད་སྐད་དུ། ཐིག་ལེ་གྲུབ་པ། འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། གང་བློ་དྲི་མའི་རྒྱུན་འཛག་གང། ། ངེས་པར་བྱེད་པའི་ཐིག་ལེ་རིམ། ། གང་གིས་གང་ལ་དེ་བསྟན་ན། ། བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུན་འཛག་འགྱུར། ། མཆོག་བཟང་བླ་མའི་ཞབས་པད་ལ། ། དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་དང་མཚུངས་བཏུད་དེ། ། ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་བླ་མ། ། གསང་བའི་ཐིགས་པ་བཤད་པར་བྱ། ། བདག་ཉིད་ལྷའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱིས། ། ས་བོན་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་ཀུན་བསྡུས་ཏེ། ། དེ་ཉིད་ལ་ནི་དམིགས་པ་ཡིས། ། ཡི་གེ་དྲན་པ་རྫོགས་པར་འགྱུར། ། སྐད་ཅིག་ལ་ནི་རྣམ་གྲངས་བརྒྱད། ། གོ་རིམ་བཟླས་པ་བསྟན་པ་དང་། ། ཐིག་ལེ་ཆེན་པོར་ཡང་བསྡུས་ཏེ། ། རེག་བྱའི་དྲན་པ་རྫོགས་པར་འགྱུར། ། དེ་ཉིད་བཅུ་དྲུག་གྱུར་པ་གང་། ། ཡི་གེའི་ཕྲེང་བས་བགྲང་བྱས་ཏེ། ། འཕོ་དང་འཇུག་པའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱིས། ། རླུང་གི་དྲན་པ་རྫོགས་པར་འགྱུར། ། རྣམ་ཤེས་ཡེ་ཤེས་མཐོང་བ་གང་། ། ཡུལ་མིན་ཤེས་པའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ལས། ། འགྲོ་དང་འོང་བ་མི་དམིགས་པ། ། ཐིག་ལེ་དྲན་པ་རྫོགས་པར་འགྱུར། ། སྟེང་དང་འོག་ལ་དམིགས་པའི་ཡིད། ། ཐིག་ལེ་སྟོང་པ་ཡི་གེ་བརྒྱ། ། ཡིད་གནས་ལྡང་འཇུག་མེད་པ་དང་། ། སྟོང་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡི་གེ་ལྔ། ། འོག་གི་གནས་ལ་དམིགས་ནས་ཀྱང་། ། ཐིག་ལེ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡི་གེ་མེད། ། ཕྱེད་ཆ་ལྷག་པ་ཟླ་བའི་གནས། ། གསང་སྔགས་ཆེན་པོ་རིགས་གསུམ་པ། ། འབྱུང་དང་འཇུག་དང་དྲན་པར་བཟླས། ། གསང་སྔགས་ལས་བྱུང་ཡི་གེ་མེད། ། གནས་མེད་གནས་ལ་གནས་པ་གང་། ། སངས་རྒྱས་ཀུན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་བྱ་བ། །

In the language of India: Tilakasiddhi. In the language of Tibet: Thig le grub pa (The Accomplishment of the Bindu). Homage to the noble Mañjuśrī, the Great Being of Wisdom. That which causes the stream of stains to flow from the mind, the sequence of the bindus that bring about certainty—when that is shown to whom, the stream of great bliss will flow. Bowing to the lotus feet of the supreme and excellent guru, who is equal to the Three Jewels, I shall explain the secret drop of the Guru, the Holder of the Wisdom Vajra. Through the yoga of oneself as the deity, having gathered all the miraculous displays of the seed-syllable, by focusing upon that very reality, the recollection of the syllables will be perfected. In a single instant, the eight enumerations are taught in their proper order; having also condensed them into the Great Bindu, the recollection of the tactile will be perfected. That which becomes the sixteenfold [reality], counted by the garland of syllables, through the yoga of shifting and entering, the recollection of the winds will be perfected. That which is the vision of consciousness and wisdom, characterized by a cognition that is not an object, in which going and coming are not perceived—the recollection of the bindu will be perfected. The mind focused on the upper and lower [centers], the hundred syllables of the empty bindu; the mind abiding without arising or entering, the five syllables of the Great Emptiness; and focusing on the lower place, the Great Bindu without syllables; the place of the moon with its additional half-part, the great secret mantra of the three families—recite by remembering the arising and entering. The syllableless arising from the secret mantra, that which abides in the placeless place, is that which is to be realized by all the Buddhas.

structureTitle block: the Sanskrit title is given as it is transmitted in Tibetan transliteration, not reconstructed from Sanskrit sources; the Tibetan title is translated after it.

definitionབླ་མ “guru” — One of the fourteen rākṣasīs .

definitionདཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ “the Three Jewels” — The Tibetan literally means “the three rare and precious ones,” the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha‍—the three objects of Buddhist refuge.

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

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

periodཟླ་བ → “moon; month”. In calendrical and cosmological passages ཟླ་བ is 'month' (twelve months to a year) or 'moon', not the god Candra. Candra is the rendering only where the text addresses or names the deity — a sūtra listing the moon as a time unit is not naming a god.

homonymཟླ་བ is rendered “moon; month” here; the glossary also records Candrā, Candramas, Moon for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionཟླ་བ “moon; month” — The deity of the moon, as well as the moon itself. In the Kāraṇḍavyūha , when Avalokiteśvara emanates Candra , it is the deity that is meant.

terminologyསངས་རྒྱས → “buddha”. The title, not a name. In Old Tibetan the spelling is usually སངས་རྒྱས already; the plural sense ('the buddhas') is carried by context, not by a suffix.

homonymསངས་རྒྱས is rendered “buddha” here; the glossary also records Awakened, awakened, Buddha for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

termཕྱག་འཚལ → homage

termབླ་མ → guru

termདཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ → the Three Jewels

termཡེ་ཤེས → wisdom

termལྷ → god

termཟླ་བ → moon; month

སངས་རྒྱས་བྱང་ཆུབ་བླ་ན་མེད། ། སྦྱོར་བ་རྫོགས་དང་སྦྱོར་བ་གཅིག་པ་དང་། ། དྲན་པས་གནས་དང་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་ཆེན་པོ་དང་། ། བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་དང་ལྔ་ཡིས་ཐིག་ལེ་གྲུབ། ། དམ་པའི་ཞལ་གྱི་ཚིག་གིས་འཆིང་བ་གྲོལ། ། རི་ཁྲོད་མགོན་པོ་ལས་རྙེད་པའི། ། མན་ངག་གཞུང་གི་དབུ་མ་ལྔ། ། ནང་གི་ནང་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་རིམ། ། ཀུན་ཀྱང་བདེ་གཤེགས་གནས་ཐོབ་ཤོག། ཐིག་ལེ་གྲུབ་པ་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མཁན་པོ་དཔལ་ལྡན་གཉིས་སུ་མེད་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེས་མཛད་པ་རྫོགས་སོ། ། ། ། རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་བསོད་སྙོམས་པ་པྲཛྙཱ་ཤྲཱི་ཛྙཱ་ན་ཀཱིརྟིས་རང་འགྱུར་དུ་མཛད་པའོ། ། ། །

The unsurpassed awakening of the Buddha, The perfection of application and the single application, Abiding in mindfulness and great enjoyment, And the inconceivable—by these five, the bindu is accomplished. Through the words of the holy mouth, the bonds are released. These five Middle Way quintessential instructions, Obtained from the Lord of the Hermitage, Are the stages of entering the innermost of the inner. May all attain the state of the Sugatas. The Bindusiddhi, composed by the Indian abbot Śrī Advayavajra, is complete. It was translated into Tibetan by the yogi, the mendicant Prajñāśrījñānakīrti, himself.

Terminology used in this text (8)

Term	Rendering	×	Note
སངས་རྒྱས	buddha	2	The title, not a name. In Old Tibetan the spelling is usually སངས་རྒྱས already; the plural sense ('the buddhas') is carr
ཕྱག་འཚལ	homage	1
བླ་མ	guru	1
དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ	the Three Jewels	1
ཡེ་ཤེས	wisdom	1	Distinguish from ཤེས་རབ (prajñā, 'insight'): ཡེ་ཤེས is the buddhas' non-dual wisdom, ཤེས་རབ the discriminating faculty o
ལྷ	god	1	Standard 84000 rendering is 'god'; 'deity' where the text contrasts classes of beings.
ཟླ་བ	moon; month	1	In calendrical and cosmological passages ཟླ་བ is 'month' (twelve months to a year) or 'moon', not the god Candra. Candra
མཁན་པོ	abbot	1	In colophons it is the Indian preceptor who authorised the translation; 'abbot' is wrong there. Use 'preceptor' in colop

Colophon

Source: tengyur vol. 049_རྒྱུད་འགྲེལ།_ཚི.txt. Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction).

Translation status: Not among 84000's published translations, and not in progress there. Translations published elsewhere have not been searched for, so one may exist. (source: 84000 catalogue + registry; checked 2026-11-10).

Set in Newsreader and EB Garamond; Tibetan in Noto Serif Tibetan; Chinese in Noto Serif SC.

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