Toh 2392 · classical Tibetan · Tengyur edition

Personal Instructions on Cutting Off the Downward Flow

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

Edition 1.0 · 2026 · not a critical edition machine draft

Catalogue: Toh 2392
Genre: Instruction
Period: classical Tibetan
Edition: Tengyur vol. 053_རྒྱུད་འགྲེལ།_ཟི.txt
Extent: 2 passages · 1,352 Tibetan characters · 376 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)

This short instructional text, titled 'The Pith Instructions for Cutting Off Leakage' (Srapa-paricchedana-nāma), provides a hybrid approach to treating a specific physiological condition described as the 'leakage of cold.' The text attributes the onset of this condition to a combination of environmental factors, such as cold and ocean swelling, and behavioral factors, specifically faulty conduct. To remedy this, the author prescribes a dual-track intervention: a material pharmacological treatment involving the consumption of pomegranate peel boiled in milk with sugar, and a ritualistic spiritual remedy. The latter is specifically indicated for cases where the condition is linked to the impairment of samaya (sacred vows). By linking physical symptoms to both environmental triggers and spiritual transgressions, the text commits the reader to a holistic recovery process that integrates dietary medicine with the restoration of ritual purity through offerings and the request for blessings.

Provenance

About this text

A manual of instruction for the cessation of physiological leakage, the Sravaparicchedana belongs to the General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works. The work is attributed to the Indian author Kukuripa. Preserved in the classical Tibetan tradition, the text appears in the Tengyur, volume ཟི, under the Tibetan title 'dzag pa gcod pa'i man ngag' and extends over two pages. The work enacts a hybrid therapeutic approach to treating the leakage of cold, a condition attributed to environmental factors such as cold and the swelling of the ocean, as well as faulty conduct. To remedy this, the author prescribes a combination of pharmacological interventions—specifically the consumption of pomegranate peel boiled in milk and sugar—and ritual remedies, such as offerings and torma, for those whose condition stems from the impairment of samaya. A scholar or serious reader consults this text today to examine how the tradition integrates material medicine with spiritual discipline, linking physical symptoms to both environmental triggers and the status of one's sacred vows.

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

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Summary & commentary

Significance

The work is significant for demonstrating the intersection of traditional Tibetan medicine and Vajrayana ritual practice, where physical ailments are viewed as potentially linked to the breach of tantric vows. For the modern reader, it illustrates the historical Buddhist conceptualization of the body as a site where ethical conduct and environmental conditions manifest as somatic symptoms.

Structure

Passages	Section	Description
1	Introduction and Material Remedy	Provides the title in Sanskrit and Tibetan, identifies the cause of the leakage, and suggests a medicinal drink.
2	Ritual Remedy and Conclusion	Addresses the spiritual cause of the condition related to samaya and prescribes ritual offerings and blessings.

Themes

Pharmacology (2)
Samaya and Ritual Purification (2)
Environmental and Behavioral Causality (1)

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

AnuvādaPersonal Instructions on Cutting Off the Downward Flow·

༄༅༅། ། རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། སྲ་བ་པ་རིཙྪ་དན་ནཱ་མ། བོད་སྐད་དུ། འཛག་པ་གཅོད་པའི་མན་ངག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ། ཡུམ་དོན་གྲུབ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། རྐྱེན་དང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་རྒྱས་པ་དང་། ། གྲང་བ་སྤྱོད་ལམ་ཉེས་པ་སྟེ། ། ཁ་ཟས་བྱིན་རླབས་དམ་ཚིག་གིས། ། གྲང་བ་འཛག་པ་ཆུ་རྒྱུན་བཟློག། རྡོ་རྗེའི་རྐེད་པར་དར་དཀར་བསྒྲིལ། ། དར་གྱི་སྐུད་པས་དམ་པར་བཅིངས། ། གཡས་གཡོན་ར་བ་དྲག་ཏུ་སྤྲུགས། ། བསམ་གཏན་ལྟེ་བར་གཏད་པར་གྱིས། ། རྣམ་སྣང་སྒོ་རུ་སྐུ་ཡིག་བསྒོམ། ། རྒྱུན་གཅོད་སྔགས་ནི་ཞལ་ནས་ལོངས། ། ཟླ་བ་རྒྱས་ན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ལུད། ། ཁ་བྲག་བརྒྱད་ལ་ཆུ་རྒྱུན་འཛག། གངྒཱའི་རྒྱུན་བཟློག་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཀྱེ། ། མི་ལྟུང་ཚེ་རིང་བདེ་བ་ཐོབ། ། རྡོ་རྗེའི་སྤྱི་བོར་དྲག་སེར་བསྒོམ། ། ཧྲཱིཾ་ཏྲཱིཾ་ཧཱུཾ་གི་ཐིག་ལེ་འདྲ། ། སྟེང་རླུང་བཅིངས་ནས་ཞགས་པ་ལྟར། ། གཡས་སྐོར་གཡོན་སྐོར་རྩ་ལ་གྲམ། ། རྒྱ་མཚོ་གྲང་བ་མེ་ཡིས་བསྲོ། ། བཅུད་ལེན་སྨན་གྱི་སྦྱོར་བ་བྱ། ། ཨ་རུ་གསེར་མདོག་འོ་མར་བསྐོལ། ། ཚ་བ་གསུམ་དང་ཅང་ཞི་བསྲེ། ། བཅུད་ཅན་ཟས་དང་སྦྱར་ལ་བཟའ། ། ན་བའི་ས་རུ་མུ་སྡུག་དང་། ། བེམ་རྟོལ་བརྒྱ་དང་རྩ་བརྒྱད་བརྒྱབ། ། མར་བསྐོལ་རས་བལ་མེ་བཙའ་གདབ། ། གྲང་འདོན་པགས་པ་རྐེད་ལ་དཀྲི། ། ལྷ་སྲུང་ལོག་ན་གདོན་གྱི་རྐྱེན། ། རྒྱ་མཚོ་མ་ཐུབ་འཛག་པ་ལ། ། རང་བྱུང་མེ་ཏོག་གུ་གུལ་ནག། ཡུངས་ཀར་ཐལ་བ་མེ་ཀླད་བསྲེ། ། ཧ་བུའི་སྔགས་བཟླས་རྡོ་རྗེར་བྱུག། དོག་པ་ནག་པོས་བཅིང་བར་བྱ། ། དྲག་པོའི་སྤྱོད་ལམ་བཟླས་བྱས་ནས། ། བུམ་པའི་རླུང་བཅིང་ཧཱུཾ་ཕཊ་འདྲེན། ། རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཁ་ཟས་ཉམས་ན་ནི།

In the language of India: Srapa-paricchedana-nāma. In the language of Tibet: 'Jag-pa gcod-pa'i man-ngag ces-bya-ba (The Pith Instructions for Cutting Off Leakage). Homage to the Mother, Siddhārthā. Due to conditions, the swelling of the ocean, cold, and faulty conduct, the leakage of cold is reversed through the blessing of food and the samaya. Wrap a white silk cloth around the waist of the vajra and bind it tightly with a silk thread. Shake the left and right sides forcefully and focus the meditative concentration on the navel. Meditate on the syllable of the body at the gate of Vairocana; receive the mantra for cutting the flow from the mouth. When the moon is full, the ocean overflows; at the eight fissures, the stream of water leaks. O yogi, reverse the flow of the Ganges! You will attain non-falling, long life, and bliss. Meditate on a fierce yellow [syllable] at the crown of the vajra, like the bindu of Hrīṃ, Trīṃ, and Hūṃ. Having bound the upper wind like a lasso, spread it through the channels by circling right and left. Warm the cold ocean with fire and perform the medicinal preparation of rasāyana. Boil golden arura in milk and mix it with the three hot spices and chang-zhi. Consume it combined with nutritious food. At the site of the ailment, apply one hundred and eight mu-stug and bem-stol [blows]. Apply moxibustion with boiled butter and cotton wool. To extract the cold, wrap a skin around the waist. If the protective deities are subverted, it is due to the influence of demons. For leakage where the ocean cannot be contained, mix self-arisen flowers, black guggulu, white mustard, ash, and me-klad. Recite the ha-bu mantra and smear it on the vajra. Bind it with a black cord. Having performed the fierce conduct and recitation, bind the vase-breath and draw out Hūṃ Phaṭ. If the yogi’s food and conduct decline...

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.

homonymདམ་ཚིག is rendered “samaya” here; the glossary also records sacred vow, commitment, samaya vows for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionདམ་ཚིག “samaya” — Literally, in Sanskrit, “coming together.” Samaya refers to precepts given by the teacher, the corresponding commitment by the pupil, and the bond that results, which can also be the bond between the practitioner and the

terminologyསྔགས → “mantra”. སྔགས་པ is a mantra-practitioner, not 'the mantric one'.

definitionསྔགས “mantra” — A formula of words or syllables that are recited aloud or mentally in order to bring about a magical or soteriological effect or result. The term has been interpretively etymologized to mean “that which protects ( trā )

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.

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 ).

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

termཕྱག་འཚལ → homage

termདམ་ཚིག → samaya

termསྔགས → mantra

termཟླ་བ → moon; month

termམེ → fire

termལྷ → god

། སེའུའི་ཤུན་ལྤགས་འོ་མར་བསྐོལ། ། ཁ་ར་བཏབ་འཐུངས་འགག་པར་འགྱུར། ། དམ་ཚིག་ཉམས་ནས་རྒྱུ་བ་ལ། ། མཆོད་དང་གཏོར་མ་བྱིན་རླབས་ཞུ། ། གཞན་དུ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ལ། ། ཡོད་པ་དག་ནི་མ་ཡིན་ནོ། ། འཛག་པ་གཅོད་པའི་མན་ངག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་སློབ་དཔོན་ཀུ་ཛི་པས་མཛད་པ་རྫོགས་སོ། །

Boil pomegranate peel in milk and drink it with sugar added; it will cause [the flow] to cease. If the samaya has been impaired and [the fluid] is flowing, perform offerings and give torma, and request blessings. Otherwise, these are not present for all yogins. This concludes "The Pith Instruction for Cutting Off Leakage," composed by the master Kuñjipa.

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

terminologyགཏོར་མ → “offering cake”. 'Torma' is defensible for specialists; in a general text 'offering cake' says what it is.

homonymགཏོར་མ is rendered “offering cake” here; the glossary also records Bali, oblation, bali offering for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionགཏོར་མ “offering cake” — Bali wrested control of the world from the devas , establishing a period of peace and prosperity with no caste distinction. Indra requested Viṣṇu to use his wiles so that the devas could gain the world back from him. He

adherencePinned rendering paraphrased here: offering cake

checkAutomatic check: bracketed gloss waived.

termདམ་ཚིག → samaya

termགཏོར་མ → offering cake

Terminology used in this text (7)

Term	Rendering	×	Note
དམ་ཚིག	samaya	2
ཕྱག་འཚལ	homage	1
སྔགས	mantra	1	སྔགས་པ is a mantra-practitioner, not 'the mantric one'.
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
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
ལྷ	god	1	Standard 84000 rendering is 'god'; 'deity' where the text contrasts classes of beings.
གཏོར་མ	offering cake	1	'Torma' is defensible for specialists; in a general text 'offering cake' says what it is.

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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