Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)
This instructional text provides a technical guide to the practice of Anuyoga, specifically focusing on the yoga that follows the cultivation of suchness and bliss. The work begins with a formal homage to the Perfect Yoginī and the non-dual nature of phenomena, establishing a non-conceptual ontological foundation. It then transitions into a specific somatic meditation practice. The text directs the practitioner to visualize the five wisdoms radiating from a central point and to focus on the navel area. Here, the practitioner is instructed to visualize a six-petaled lotus containing a specific six-syllable seed mantra (A, ṆI, SU, TRI, PRE, DU). The primary objective of this visualization is the ritual blocking of the six classes of beings, thereby preparing the practitioner's subtle body for the attainment of buddhahood. The text commits the reader to a precise combination of voidness-based contemplation and detailed internal visualization.
Provenance
About this text
An instructional guide to the yoga that follows the cultivation of suchness and bliss, the Tattvasukhabhāvanānusāriyogabhāvanopadeśa belongs to the tradition of the General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works. The work is attributed to the Indian author Kukuripa. It is preserved in the classical Tibetan period within the Tengyur, specifically in volume ཟི, where it comprises two pages. In the Tibetan tradition, it is known as the de nyid bde ba bsgom pa'i rjes su 'brang ba'i rnal 'byor bsgom pa'i man ngag. The work enacts a technical somatic practice beginning with homage to the Perfect Yoginī and the non-dual expanse of phenomena. It directs the practitioner to visualize the five wisdoms radiating from the heart's union and to focus on the navel, where a six-petaled lotus contains the syllables A, ṆI, SU, TRI, PRE, and DU. This visualization serves to block the six classes of beings and dissolve the syllables into the letter KA to facilitate the achievement of buddhahood. A scholar or serious reader consults this text today to examine the precise intersection of voidness-based meditation and the ritual manipulation of the subtle body within the Anuyoga framework.
Cite thisAnuvāda, “Personal Instructions on the Cultivation of the Yoga that Follows the Cultivation of Suchness and Bliss” (Toh 2391), machine draft, 2026.https://naxiai.com/tibetan/works/toh2391
Summary & commentary
Significance
The work is significant as a representative of the Anuyoga tradition, illustrating the integration of mantra, subtle body anatomy, and the realization of suchness. For the modern reader, it demonstrates the technical complexity of the Nyingma school's approach to the transformation of the physical body into a vehicle for enlightenment.
Structure
Passages
Section
Description
1
Introduction and Homage
Provides the Sanskrit and Tibetan titles and offers prostrations to the non-dual nature of phenomena.
2
Meditation Instructions
Details the visualization of the five wisdoms and the placement of a six-syllable mantra at the navel to block the six classes of beings.
Themes
Non-duality and Suchness (1)
Subtle Body Visualization (2)
Mantra and Seed Syllables (2)
Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.
AnuvādaPersonal Instructions on the Cultivation of the Yoga that Follows the Cultivation of Suchness and Bliss·
In the language of India: Anuyogatattvabhāvanopadeśa-nāma. In the language of Tibet: De nyid bde ba bsgom pa’i rjes su ’brang ba’i rnal ’byor bsgom pa’i man ngag ces bya ba. Homage to the Perfect Yoginī.
I prostrate to the nature of phenomena, the equal and non-dual expanse,
In the center of the lotus of the heart’s union,
Where the nature of mind is subtle, luminous, pervasive, and endowed with experience,
Through which the three realms are all attained as non-dual.
When the wild horses of the fluctuating senses are dissolved within,
The wise attain non-duality and swiftly realize the meaning
As the true vessel for the wisdom of the Victors;
Thus, the glorious, stainless view is established like the sky.
Through the yoga of recollecting the Buddha in the expanse of phenomena,
By meditating on phenomena and their nature, the nature of the Dharmakāya is attained.
Through the awareness of that very reality, primordial wisdom is seen;
The purpose of intense meditation is the luminosity free from doubt.
The syllable-less bindu abiding in the heart
Causes primordial wisdom to arise in the yogi who meditates.
Within that, all the compassionate Vajradākas reside,
Along with the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and their realms.
By offering that very nature, one receives offerings from those worthy of worship.
Whosoever practices this yoga is honored by the Buddhas;
That which practices the offering and meditation is the speech of the Buddha, the fruit.
Through the internal union of the two in Vajrayoga,
The wise offer with the vajra offering.
The five wisdoms radiate forth; there is no doubt that buddhahood will be achieved. For any yogi, at the navel, the emanation wheel, in the center of the six-petaled lotus like a bandhūka fruit, one should meditate on the six syllables—A, ṆI, SU, TRI, PRE, and DU—to block the six classes of beings. In the center, the six syllables, hollow within, gradually dissolve into the letter KA; thus the nature of mind is blocked and becomes unborn. The obscured and the obscurer are one's own stainless mind, free from focal points. These were taught to discipline the mental continuums; they are not the ultimate meaning of yoga. All buddhas will be achieved through this great natural offering. The twenty great sites are one's own abode, and the stages of the paths and grounds are attained. Therefore, do not seek thatness elsewhere; it abides in oneself. If one wanders without realizing that very yoga, what is to be done? If that very reality is realized, what else is there to do? The fortunate self is accomplished within oneself and that very reality is attained. Through whatever application, the practitioner of the vow acts like a madman in non-dual meditative concentration. Whether clad in space or otherwise, that is not [ordinary] yoga. The yidam deity abides in the body; meditate on that very nature. Restraining speech for six months, one meets the ḍākinīs. Wisdom light radiates, and the yogi becomes equal to the buddhas. Like a magician, one performs the supreme discipline for the benefit of beings. This concludes the instruction for meditating on the yoga that follows the meditation on that very bliss, composed by the master Kukuripa.
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.