Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)
The provided fragment of the Vajraḍākinī Perfection Stage (Vajraḍākinīniṣpannakrama) introduces a tantric practice focused on the deity Vajravārāhī. The text opens with a formal homage and employs a metaphorical framework to describe the process of realization. By depicting the Vajra Ḍākinī using a bow and arrow, the text frames the attainment of non-duality as a precise strike against the target of all phenomena. This suggests that the work is designed to guide the practitioner through the completion stage of tantra, committing the reader to a meditative process where the dualistic perception of reality is systematically dismantled. The brevity of the passage indicates an introductory section that establishes the symbolic and philosophical orientation of the subsequent technical instructions on the perfection stage.
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About this text
A treatise on the completion stage of the Vajra Ḍākinī, the Vajraḍākinīniṣpannakrama belongs to the tradition of the General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works. The work is attributed to the Indian author Vīnapa. Preserved in the classical Tibetan period, the text appears in the Tengyur, volume ཟི, where it extends over two pages. The translation, titled rdo rje mkha' 'gro'i rdzogs pa'i rim pa, opens with an homage to Vajravārāhī and enacts a meditative process through the metaphor of the Vajra Ḍākinī using a bow and arrow. By framing all phenomena as a target to be struck by the arrow of non-duality, the work seeks to dismantle the dualistic perception of meditation and its object, thereby erasing the perception of rebirth. A scholar or serious reader consults this work today to examine the symbolic and philosophical orientation of the completion stage, specifically how the dismantling of extremes is conceptualized within the technical framework of the Unexcelled Yoga Tantras.
This work is significant as it represents the completion stage of a Vajra Ḍākinī cycle, which is central to the Anuttarayoga Tantra tradition. For the modern reader, it illustrates the use of deity yoga and symbolic imagery to conceptualize the collapse of subject-object duality.
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Introduction
Contains the title in Sanskrit and Tibetan, a homage to Vajravārāhī, and a metaphorical description of the Vajra Ḍākinī achieving non-duality.
Themes
Non-duality (1)
Deity Yoga (1)
Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.
In the language of India: Vajraḍākinīniṣpannakrama. In the language of Tibet: rDo rje mkha’ ’gro’i rdzogs pa’i rim pa (The Completion Stage of the Vajra Ḍākinī). Homage to Vajravārāhī!
The Vajra Ḍākinī takes the bow;
All phenomena are set as the target.
She shoots with the arrow of non-duality.
There is no meditation and no object of meditation.
By striking, rebirth is not perceived.
The extremes of self and other are also severed.
She shoots with the arrow of non-duality.
There is neither meditation nor an object of meditation.
Having drawn the bow of emptiness,
She strikes with the arrow that does not miss.
There is neither the slayer nor the slain.
She shoots with the arrow of non-duality.
There is neither meditation nor an object of meditation.
Through the great magical display of space,
All the nature of phenomena is gathered.
She shoots with the arrow of non-duality.
There is neither meditation nor an object of meditation.
Having performed this cycle in this way,
From one up to twenty,
There is no entering into any phenomenon whatsoever.
The empty syllable is granted as the nourishment.
She shoots with the arrow of non-duality.
There is neither meditation nor an object of meditation.
The Vajraḍākinīniṣpannakrama, composed by the master Bhinapa and transmitted from the master Virūpa, is hereby complete.
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.