Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)
This text, attributed to the master Paṅka, provides a instructional framework for Mahāmudrā practice centered on the conceptual triad of the ground, path, and result. The work aims to guide practitioners of humble capacity through a specific meditative methodology involving the three syllables and the role of the guru. By framing the guru as the embodiment of the ground, path, and result, the text commits the reader to a practice of visualization and identification where the teacher serves as the primary vehicle for realizing the nature of mind. The structure is designed to move the practitioner from the foundational state through the process of cultivation toward the final fruition of the Great Seal, integrating the external guidance of the guru with the internal realization of the Buddhist path.
Provenance
About this text
A treatise on the practice of Mahāmudrā, the Sthānamārgaphalamahāmudrābhāvanā focuses on the meditation of the ground, path, and result. The work is attributed to the Indian author Paṅkaja. Preserved in the classical Tibetan tradition, the text appears in the Tengyur, volume ཟི, where it comprises two pages and is situated within the General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works. The work enacts a meditative methodology designed for those of humble capacity, specifically detailing the practice of the three syllables and the gurus of the three lineages. By framing the guru as the embodiment of the ground, path, and result, the treatise guides the practitioner through a process of visualization and identification, utilizing the teacher as the vehicle for realizing the nature of mind. A scholar or serious reader consults this text today to examine the integration of external guidance with internal realization, moving from the foundational state through cultivation toward the final fruition of the Great Seal.
Cite thisAnuvāda, “The Practice of the Great Seal in Cultivating the Basis, Path, and Fruit” (Toh 2388), machine draft, 2026.https://naxiai.com/tibetan/works/toh2388
Summary & commentary
Significance
The work is significant for its integration of the guru-devotion model with the technical stages of the ground, path, and result within the Mahāmudrā tradition. It illustrates how complex ontological categories are operationalized into a practical meditative system for practitioners.
Structure
Passages
Section
Description
1
Introduction
Provides the Sanskrit and Tibetan titles, an invocation to Heruka, and the intended audience and scope of the practice.
2
Conclusion
Formal closing statement attributing the composition to the master Paṅka.
Themes
Mahāmudrā (1-2)
Ground, Path, and Result (1-2)
Guru Yoga (1-2)
Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.
AnuvādaThe Practice of the Great Seal in Cultivating the Basis, Path, and Fruit·
In the language of India: Sthānamārgaphala-mahāmudrā-bhāvanā-nāma. In the language of Tibet: The Practice of Mahāmudrā: The Meditation on the Ground, Path, and Result. Homage to the glorious Heruka!
I shall explain to those of humble capacity the practice of the three syllables and the gurus of the three lineages of the ground, path, and result.
From the emanation wheel at the navel, up to the two nostrils and the Brahma-aperture, one should focus the mind upon the three channels. The left channel is white, the right is red, and the central one is the blue Akṣobhya. On the right is the syllable HŪṂ and on the left is OṂ; at the Brahma-aperture, one should visualize the syllable A.
The blue, white, and red luminosities pervade the three realms with emanated light. Having subdued those to be trained, the light dissolves back again. Upon the crescent moon of the three syllables, above the bindu of emptiness, one should meditate on the luminosity of the lineage gurus. Above that, one should meditate as follows:
Upon the syllables at the left nostril, one should meditate on the luminosity of the gurus of realized experience, like stars. The guru of the manifest result is upon the crescent moon of the syllable HŪṂ; one should meditate on this with stable concentration.
The three winds are blocked and the three demons are dispelled. One becomes free from the conceptualizations of the three poisons and abandons the conceptualization of cause and effect. As the hermitage of the body becomes stable, one realizes the meaning of the non-duality of self and other, and abandons the fears of the charnel grounds. In the expanse of the sky of Hari-candra, one enjoys the city of the gandharvas.
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.