Toh 2371 · classical Tibetan · Tengyur edition

The Song of Mahāsukhatāvajra

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

Edition 1.0 · 2026 · not a critical edition machine draft

Catalogue: Toh 2371
Genre: Treatise
Period: classical Tibetan
Edition: Tengyur vol. 053_རྒྱུད་འགྲེལ།_ཟི.txt
Extent: 1 passages · 890 Tibetan characters · 237 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 Song of Mahāsukhatāvajra is a short liturgical or instructional piece that advocates for a non-dual realization of reality. The text employs a classic Buddhist metaphor—comparing the pervasive nature of Mañjuśrī's body to sesame oil within a seed—to argue that the three realms are fundamentally identical to the wisdom-body of the bodhisattva. By framing this as the yoga of spontaneous presence, the work commits the practitioner to a meditative shift in perception, moving from a dualistic view of the world to one of inherent bliss. The text positions the act of singing this song as a method of engaging with the sublime Dharma, suggesting that the realization of the emptiness and luminosity of all phenomena is achieved through the recognition of the compassionate, nameless consort of the Sugatas.

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About this text

A song of the sublime Dharma of great bliss, the ma hA su kha ta'i glu is a treatise belonging to the General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works. This classical Tibetan work is preserved in the Tengyur, volume ཟི, where it extends over two pages. The text enacts a meditative shift in perception through the yoga of spontaneous presence, employing the metaphor of sesame oil pervading a seed to illustrate how the body of Mañjuśrī fills the three realms. By associating with the compassionate, nameless consort of all the Sugatas, the practitioner is told that all suffering is dispelled. A scholar or serious reader consults this piece to examine how the recognition of the luminosity of all phenomena is framed as a method of engaging with the Dharma, moving from a dualistic view of the world toward a non-dual realization of inherent bliss.

Sanskrit title: not recorded
Indian author: not recorded
Tibetan translators: not recorded
Canonical collection: General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works
Genre: Treatise
Source edition: Tengyur, vol. ཟི
Period: classical Tibetan

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Summary & commentary

Significance

The work is significant for its representation of the integration of Mañjuśrī imagery with the yoga of spontaneous presence, typical of certain Vajrayāna traditions. It illustrates the transition from philosophical assertion to meditative practice through the medium of a song.

Structure

Passages	Section	Description
1	Introduction to the Yoga of Spontaneous Presence	The text establishes the omnipresence of Mañjuśrī and encourages the practitioner to sing the song of great bliss.

Themes

Omnipresence of Wisdom (1)
Yoga of Spontaneous Presence (1)

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

AnuvādaThe Song of Mahāsukhatāvajra·

༄༅། ། ཇི་ལྟར་ཏིལ་ལ་ཏིལ་མར་ཁྱབ་པ་བཞིན། ། དེ་བཞིན་ཁམས་གསུམ་འཇམ་དཔལ་སྐུ་ཡིས་གང་། ། དེ་ཤེས་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་བསྒོམ་པ་ཡིས། ། བདེ་ཆེན་དམ་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གླུ་འདི་ལོང་། ། བདེ་གཤེགས་ཀུན་གྱི་བཙུན་མོ་མིང་མེད་མ། ། སྣ་ཚོགས་གཟུགས་ཅན་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཅན་དེ་དང་། ། ལྷན་ཅིག་འགྲོགས་ན་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཐམས་ཅད་སེལ། ། བདེ་ཆེན་དམ་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གླུ་འདི་ལོང་། ། ནམ་མཁའ་ནམ་མཁའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ཅི་འདྲ་བར། ། སེམས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ཉིད་དེ་འདྲ་བླ་མ་གསུང་། ། བླ་མེད་དོན་དེ་མི་ཤེས་བསྒོམ་མི་ནུས། ། བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གླུ་འདི་ལོང་། ། ཉི་མ་མེ་ཤེལ་རས་བལ་འདུས་ཇི་བཞིན། ། ལུང་དང་མན་ངག་དེ་བཞིན་བསྟེན་པ་ལས། ། རང་རིག་ཡེ་ཤེས་མེ་ནི་འབར་བར་འགྱུར། ། བདེ་ཆེན་དམ་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གླུ་འདི་ལོང་། ། གླེགས་བམ་ཆོས་དང་གཞན་ལག་གནས་པའི་ནོར། ། ཆོས་ནོར་མིན་ཏེ་དགོས་པའི་དུས་ན་མེད། ། འཕགས་པའི་ནོར་ཆེན་རང་གི་སེམས་ལ་ཆོངས། ། བདེ་ཆེན་དམ་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གླུ་འདི་ལོང་། ། བདེ་དང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གནས་སྐབས་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ། ། ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་འདྲའི་དེ་ཉིད་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། ། འཇམ་དཔལ་ཀུན་འདུལ་ཉིན་མཚན་ནན་ཏན་བྱོས། ། བདེ་ཆེན་དམ་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གླུ་འདི་ལོང་། ། མ་ཧཱ་སུ་ཁ་ཏའི་གླུ་རྫོགས་སོ། །

Just as sesame oil pervades the sesame seed, So too the three realms are filled with the body of Mañjuśrī. By meditating on the yoga of spontaneous presence that knows this, Sing this song of the sublime Dharma of great bliss! The nameless consort of all the Sugatas, That compassionate one who possesses diverse forms— If you associate with her, all suffering is dispelled. Sing this song of the sublime Dharma of great bliss! Just as space has the nature of space, The nature of the mind is likewise, the Guru says. Without knowing that unsurpassed meaning, one cannot meditate. Sing this song of the sublime Dharma of great bliss! Just as the sun, a magnifying glass, and cotton come together, By relying likewise on the scriptures and pith instructions, The fire of self-knowing primordial wisdom will blaze forth. Sing this song of the sublime Dharma of great bliss! Books of Dharma and wealth held in the hands of others Are not the Dharma or wealth; when needed, they are not there. Hold the great wealth of the Noble Ones within your own mind. Sing this song of the sublime Dharma of great bliss! In all circumstances, whether of happiness or suffering, The reality of bodhicitta is like a wish-fulfilling jewel. Mañjuśrī, the Tamer of All, apply yourself day and night! Sing this song of the sublime Dharma of great bliss! The song of Mahāsukhatā is complete.

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

periodཆོས → “dharma”. In Abhidharma lists (སྐྱེ་མཆེད, ཁམས) ཆོས is 'phenomena', the objects of mind — not the Buddhist teaching. Same word, two referents; the list decides.

homonymཆོས is rendered “dharma” here; the glossary also records special qualities, phenomena, qualities for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionཆོས “dharma” — The term “ dharma ” ( chos ) conveys ten different meanings, according to Vasubandhu’s Vyākhyāyukti . It may mean the Buddhist teachings, the awakened qualities which buddhas and bodhisattvas acquire, phenomena or thing

definitionསྡུག་བསྔལ “suffering” — The first of the four truths of the noble ones. The term “suffering” includes all essentially unsatisfactory experiences of life in cyclic existence, whether physical or mental. These comprise (1) the suffering of suffer

terminologyཆོས་ཉིད → “the nature of phenomena”. Not 'dharma-nature' in running prose; 84000 harmonises on 'the nature of phenomena'.

homonymཆོས་ཉིད is rendered “the nature of phenomena” here; the glossary also records true nature of things, suchness, basic nature for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionཆོས་ཉིད “the nature of phenomena” — The real nature, true quality, or condition of things. Throughout Buddhist discourse this term is used in two distinct ways. In one, it designates the relative nature that is either the essential characteristic of a spec

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

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 ).

adherencePinned rendering paraphrased here: the nature of phenomena

termཆོས → dharma

termསྡུག་བསྔལ → suffering

termཆོས་ཉིད → the nature of phenomena

termབླ་མ → guru

termམེ → fire

Terminology used in this text (5)

Term	Rendering	×	Note
ཆོས	dharma	1	In Abhidharma lists (སྐྱེ་མཆེད, ཁམས) ཆོས is 'phenomena', the objects of mind — not the Buddhist teaching. Same word, two
སྡུག་བསྔལ	suffering	1
ཆོས་ཉིད	the nature of phenomena	1	Not 'dharma-nature' in running prose; 84000 harmonises on 'the nature of phenomena'.
བླ་མ	guru	1
མེ	fire	1	In ritual and cosmological prose མེ is the element 'fire'; Agni is the deity only where he is named or invoked. Do not c

Colophon

Source: tengyur vol. 053_རྒྱུད་འགྲེལ།_ཟི.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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