Toh 2469 · classical Tibetan · Tengyur edition

Differentiating the Path of the Seven Glorious Yogas

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

Edition 1.0 · 2026 · not a critical edition machine draft

Catalogue: Toh 2469
Genre: Treatise
Period: classical Tibetan
Edition: Tengyur vol. 053_རྒྱུད་འགྲེལ།_ཟི.txt
Extent: 2 passages · 1,686 Tibetan characters · 409 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)

Differentiating the Path of the Seven Glorious Yogas is a technical manual designed to delineate the specific stages and nature of a meditative system. The text begins with traditional Indian and Tibetan titling and a prostration to the Buddha, establishing its lineage and authority. It argues that the path to buddhahood is predicated on the realization of the luminosity of the mind's profound nature, which is characterized by the emptiness of diverse movements. The author posits that this luminosity is intrinsically linked to the vast compassion of bodhicitta, suggesting that the cognitive realization of emptiness and the affective quality of compassion are inseparable components of the process. By framing the ultimate fruit as perfect buddhahood, the text commits the reader to a rigorous practice guided by the power of the guru, emphasizing that the transition from the nature of mind to enlightenment requires specific instructional transmission.

Provenance

About this text

A treatise delineating the path of the seven glorious yogas, the Śrīsaptayogamārgaviniścaya is attributed to the Indian author Mitrayogin. Preserved in the classical Tibetan tradition as the dpal rnal 'byor bdun gyi lam rnam par nges pa, the work is found within the General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works collection. The source edition is the Tengyur, volume ཟི, where the text extends over three pages. The work enacts a system for taming the mind through seven essential pith instructions, asserting that the luminosity of the mind's profound nature is characterized by the emptiness of diverse movements. It argues that this luminosity is inseparable from the vast compassion of bodhicitta, with the ultimate fruit being the attainment of perfect buddhahood. A scholar or serious reader consults this text to understand the specific instructions for resting in seven aspects, a process facilitated by the power of the guru and transmitted to the figure known as Grogs-po-mig, the eye of Jambudvīpa.

Sanskrit title: Śrīsaptayogamārgaviniścaya
Indian author: Mitrayogin
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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Significance

The work is significant for its synthesis of emptiness, luminosity, and bodhicitta, reflecting a characteristic approach in Indo-Tibetan tantric systems. For the modern reader, it illustrates the interdependence of philosophical view and practical instruction within the Vajrayana tradition.

Structure

Passages	Section	Description
1	Introduction and Preliminaries	Contains the Sanskrit and Tibetan titles and the initial homage to the Buddha.
2	The Nature of the Path	Defines the relationship between the luminosity of the mind, bodhicitta, and the attainment of buddhahood.

Themes

Luminosity and Emptiness (2)
Bodhicitta (2)
Guru Devotion (2)

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AnuvādaDifferentiating the Path of the Seven Glorious Yogas·

༄༅༅། ། རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། ཤྲཱི་སཔྟ་ཡོ་ག་མཱརྒ་བི་ནི་ཤྩ་ཡ། བོད་སྐད་དུ། དཔལ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་བདུན་གྱི་ལམ་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་འཇིག་རྟེན་དབང་ཕྱུག་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཏེ། ། དེ་ཡི་ཞལ་གྱི་བཀའ་དྲིན་གྱིས། ། གདུལ་དཀའི་རང་སེམས་འདུལ་བ་ལ། ། སྙིང་པོའི་མན་ངག་རྣམ་བདུན་ཐོབ། ། ཀྱེ་ཧོ་བཞིན་བཟང་ང་ལ་ཉོན། ། ཐོག་མེད་འཁོར་བའི་འཁོར་ལོ་འདིར། ། ཁྱེད་ཅིག་གང་གིས་འཁོར་གྱུར་པ། ། ཨེ་མ་ཧོ་དེ་ཉིད་དེ་ཡི་རྒྱུ། ། གདོད་ནས་རྣམ་གྲོལ་རང་གི་སེམས། ། གང་ཕྱིར་ཐམས་ཅད་རང་གི་ངང་། ། འཆིང་དང་གྲོལ་བར་འགྱུར་བའི་ཕྱིར། ། འདི་ན་འཆིང་བ་གང་ཡང་མེད། ། འཆིང་བ་གང་ཡིན་དེ་གྲོལ་བའོ། ། གྲོལ་བའི་ལམ་ནི་མཁས་པར་རིག། ཀྱེ་ཀྱེ་ཨེ་མ་ཧོ་ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། ། སྡུག་བསྔལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་སྒྲོལ་བའི་གྲུ། ། རྒྱལ་བའི་བསྟན་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། ། འདི་ཡི་ངོ་བོ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། ། དེ་ཡི་ངོ་བོ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད། ། དེ་དབྱེར་མེད་པ་ཅན་ཡིན་ནོ། ། འགྲུབ་པ་ཚད་མེད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་བདག། བསྐུལ་བ་བསྒྱུར་བ་སྤྲོ་བ་དང་། ། དྲན་དང་བྲལ་བ་ལྷུན་གྱིས་གྲུབ། ། གཉུག་མ་འོད་གསལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། ། མི་རྟག་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བདག་མེད་ཀྱི། ། སྲིད་ལ་ཆགས་མེད་བསྐུལ་བར་བྱ། ། ཕྱི་ནང་གསང་བའི་རྣམ་དག་གིས། ། སྣང་སེམས་ཡེ་ཤེས་བསྒྱུར་བར་བྱ། ། རྟེན་འབྲེལ་སྟོང་ཉིད་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཡིས། ། འཁོར་འདས་འགྲོ་བའི་དོན་རབ་སྤྲོ། ། གང་ཤར་སོར་བཞག་དྲན་པ་ཡིན། ། དྲན་པ་རང་གྲོལ་བྲལ་བ་སྟེ། ། བྲལ་བ་རོ་མཉམ་ལྷུན་གྱིས་གྲུབ། ། གང་ཤར་ངོ་བོ་མ་བཅོས་པ། ། གཉུག་མའི་དེ་ཉིད་ཡུལ་དབང་གིས། །

In the language of India: Śrī-sapta-yoga-mārga-viniścaya. In the language of Tibet: dPal rnal ’byor bdun gyi lam rnam par ṅes pa. Homage to the Blessed One, the Lord of the World. Having prostrated to the Protector of the World, through the kindness of his speech, I have obtained the seven essential pith instructions for taming one’s own mind, which is otherwise difficult to subdue. Kye ho! O fair-faced one, listen to me! In this beginningless wheel of saṃsāra, by what are you bound? Ema ho! That very [nature] is the cause of it. One’s own mind is primordially liberated; because everything is its own natural state, there is no bondage whatsoever here. Whatever is bondage is itself liberation. The path of liberation is known by the wise. Kye kye! Ema ho! Ema ho! The precious teaching of the Victorious One is the boat for crossing the ocean of suffering. Its essence is bodhicitta, and its essence is emptiness; these are inseparable. It is the master of the immeasurable accomplishments. Through exhortation, transformation, and joyful effort, and through mindfulness and freedom, it is spontaneously accomplished. The innate luminosity of bodhicitta should be exhorted by being free from attachment to existence—impermanence, suffering, and selflessness. Through the outer, inner, and secret purities, appearance and mind are transformed into wisdom. Through dependent origination, emptiness, and compassion, the welfare of beings in saṃsāra and nirvāṇa is thoroughly emanated. Whatever arises is left as it is in mindfulness; mindfulness is self-liberated and free. Freedom is the spontaneous accomplishment of equal taste. Whatever arises is the uncontrived essence; by the power of the object, the innate reality [is realized].

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.

terminologyབཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས → “the Blessed One”. 84000 harmonises on 'the Blessed One'. Do not alternate with 'Bhagavān' inside one text.

homonymབཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས is rendered “the Blessed One” here; the glossary also records blessed, Blessed One, bhagavān for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionབཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས “the Blessed One” — In Buddhist literature, this is an epithet applied to buddhas, most often to Śākyamuni. The Sanskrit term generally means “possessing fortune,” but in specifically Buddhist contexts it implies that a buddha is in possess

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

definitionསྟོང་པ་ཉིད “emptiness” — Emptiness denotes the ultimate nature of reality, the total absence of inherent existence and self-identity with respect to all phenomena. According to this view, all things and events are devoid of any independent, intr

terminologyཡེ་ཤེས → “wisdom”. Distinguish from ཤེས་རབ (prajñā, 'insight'): ཡེ་ཤེས is the buddhas' non-dual wisdom, ཤེས་རབ the discriminating faculty on the path.

homonymཡེ་ཤེས is rendered “wisdom” here; the glossary also records awareness, Wisdom, knowledge for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionཡེ་ཤེས “wisdom” — The term jñāna is formed by the root jñā , meaning “to know,” “to know of,” “to understand,” “to be aware of,” with the addition of the pratyaya lyuṭ , which can be interpreted as having different values (the instrument

checkAutomatic check: bracketed gloss waived.

termབཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས → the Blessed One

termཕྱག་འཚལ → homage

termསྡུག་བསྔལ → suffering

termསྟོང་པ་ཉིད → emptiness

termཡེ་ཤེས → wisdom

སྣ་ཚོགས་འགྱུ་བ་སྟོང་པ་ནི། ། སེམས་ཉིད་ཟབ་མོའི་འོད་གསལ་ཡིན། ། འོད་གསལ་གང་ཡིན་དེ་ཡི་རོ། ། བརྩེ་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། ། དེ་ཡི་འབྲས་བུ་རྫོགས་སངས་རྒྱས། ། དཔལ་ལྡན་འཇིག་རྟེན་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཞལ། ། བླ་མའི་མཐུ་ཡིས་འཛམ་གླིང་གི། ། མིག་བྱིན་གྲོགས་པོའི་མིང་ཅན་ལ། ། ངལ་སོའི་མན་ངག་རྣམ་པ་བདུན། ། དཔལ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་རྣམ་པ་བདུན་གྱི་ལམ་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཆེན་པོ་ཤྲཱི་ཛ་ག་ཏ་མི་ཏྲ་ཨཱ་ནནྡའི་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་དམ་པ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཀྱི་ཚོང་འདུས་ཆེན་པོ་དཔལ་འགུར་མོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གླིང་དུ་དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱ། འབྲེ། ལམ། ལོ། དྲོ། གཤེན་དྲུག་གི་དོན་དུ་མཛད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་རྣལ་དུ་མཚོན་པའི་མན་ངག་རྫོགས་སོ། །

The emptiness of diverse movements is the luminosity of the profound nature of mind. Whatever that luminosity is, its flavor is the vast, great compassion of bodhicitta. Its fruit is the perfect buddhahood, the face of the glorious Lord of the World. Through the power of the guru, the instructions for resting in seven aspects were given to the one named Grogs-po-mig, the eye of Jambudvīpa. This concludes the pith instructions for directly pointing out suchness, a treatise composed for the sake of the six great spiritual friends—Gya, ’Bre, Lam, Lo, Dro, and Gshen—at the glorious and great market of auspiciousness, the sacred heart-wheel of the great lord of yogins, Śrī Jagatmitrānanda, at the precious island of glorious ’Gur-mo in the Land of Jambudvīpa. This is the definitive path of the seven glorious yogas. It is finished.

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

terminologyསངས་རྒྱས → “buddha”. The title, not a name. In Old Tibetan the spelling is usually སངས་རྒྱས already; the plural sense ('the buddhas') is carried by context, not by a suffix.

homonymསངས་རྒྱས is rendered “buddha” here; the glossary also records Awakened, awakened, Buddha for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionསངས་རྒྱས “buddha” — The Indic term buddha means "The Awakened One" and is used in Buddhism as an epithet for the historical Buddha Siddhārtha Gautama as well as other spiritually enlightened beings in general. “ Buddha ” is the past partici

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

definitionདེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད “suchness” — The ultimate nature of things, the way things are in reality as opposed to the way they appear to beings who have not awakened.

termསངས་རྒྱས → buddha

termབླ་མ → guru

termདེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད → suchness

Terminology used in this text (8)

Term	Rendering	×	Note
བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས	the Blessed One	1	84000 harmonises on 'the Blessed One'. Do not alternate with 'Bhagavān' inside one text.
ཕྱག་འཚལ	homage	1
སྡུག་བསྔལ	suffering	1
སྟོང་པ་ཉིད	emptiness	1
ཡེ་ཤེས	wisdom	1	Distinguish from ཤེས་རབ (prajñā, 'insight'): ཡེ་ཤེས is the buddhas' non-dual wisdom, ཤེས་རབ the discriminating faculty o
སངས་རྒྱས	buddha	1	The title, not a name. In Old Tibetan the spelling is usually སངས་རྒྱས already; the plural sense ('the buddhas') is carr
བླ་མ	guru	1
དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད	suchness	1

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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