Toh 2484 · classical Tibetan · Tengyur edition

The Fruit Cluster of Vajra Vehicle Transgressions

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

Edition 1.0 · 2026 · not a critical edition machine draft

Catalogue: Toh 2484
Genre: Treatise
Period: classical Tibetan
Edition: Tengyur vol. 053_རྒྱུད་འགྲེལ།_ཟི.txt
Extent: 2 passages · 1,416 Tibetan characters · 300 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)

The Fruit Cluster of Vajra Vehicle Transgressions, attributed to the scholar Abhayākaragupta, serves as a normative guide for practitioners adhering to the vows of Vajrasattva. The text focuses on the identification and avoidance of specific transgressions or downfalls (ltung ba) associated with the Vajrayāna path. By categorizing these faults, the work establishes a framework for ethical discipline and spiritual purity, committing the reader to a rigorous abandonment of prohibited behaviors to maintain the integrity of their training. The provided fragments indicate a structured approach to monastic or tantric discipline, beginning with an invocation to Vajrasattva and concluding with a colophon that situates the work's translation and editing process at the monastic university of Nālandā, emphasizing its scholarly and institutional origins in Magadha.

Provenance

About this text

A treatise concerning the vows of Vajrasattva, the Vajrayānāpattimañjarī belongs to the tradition of the General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works. The work is attributed to the Indian scholar Abhayākaragupta. Its passage into the Tibetan language was carried out by Abhayākaragupta and the alms-collecting monk Buddhakīrti, with the translation, editing, and finalization process taking place at Nālandā in Magadha. This classical Tibetan version is preserved in the Tengyur, specifically in volume ཟི, where it extends over two pages under the title rdo rje theg pa'i ltung ba'i snye ma. The work enacts a normative guide for practitioners by categorizing the downfalls associated with the Vajra Vehicle into two distinct groups: root downfalls and gross downfalls. It argues that those abiding in the training of Vajrasattva must completely abandon these faults in every respect to maintain their discipline. A scholar or serious reader consults this text today to understand the framework of ethical discipline and the specific prohibitions required to maintain spiritual purity within the Vajrayāna path, as established by the institutional and scholarly standards of the Magadha region.

Sanskrit title: Vajrayānāpattimañjarī
Indian author: Abhayākaragupta
Tibetan translators: Abhayākaragupta, dge slong bsod snyoms pa sangs rgyas grags pa
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 as it represents the systematization of tantric ethics and the codification of vows within the Indo-Tibetan tradition. Its association with Nālandā suggests it functioned as a standard reference for maintaining the purity of the Vajra Vehicle's practitioners.

Structure

Passages	Section	Description
1	Introduction	Provides the Sanskrit and Tibetan titles, an invocation to Vajrasattva, and introduces the categorization of vows.
2	Conclusion	Exhorts the practitioner to abandon faults and provides a colophon identifying Abhayākaragupta as the author and Nālandā as the site of translation.

Themes

Vajrayāna Ethics and Transgressions (1-2)
Vows of Vajrasattva (1-2)

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

AnuvādaThe Fruit Cluster of Vajra Vehicle Transgressions·

༄༅༅། ། རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། བཛྲ་ཡཱ་ན་པཏྟི་མཉྫ་རི་ནཱ་མ། བོད་སྐད་དུ། རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པའི་ལྟུང་བའི་སྙེ་མ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་དཔལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡོམ་པ་འཛིན་པ་ལ་ལྟུང་བའི་སྡེ་ཚན་རྣམ་པ་གཉིས་ཏེ། རྩ་བའི་ལྟུང་བ་བཤད་པ་དང་། སྦོམ་པོའི་ལྟུང་བ་བཤད་པའོ། ། དེ་ལ་བླ་མ་ལ་མ་གུས་པ་དང་། བདེ་བར་གཤེགས་པའི་བཀའ་ལས་འདས་པ་དང་། ཞེ་སྡང་གིས་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྤུན་ལ་སྐྱོན་འབྲུ་བ་དང་། བྱམས་པ་གཏོང་བ་དང་། བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་གཏོང་བ་དང་། ཐེག་པ་གསུམ་ལ་སྨོད་པ་དང་། ཡོངས་སུ་མ་སྨིན་པ་ལ་གསང་བ་སྒྲོགས་པ་དང་། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་བདག་ཉིད་ཕུང་པོ་ལྔ་ལ་སྨོད་པ་དང་། ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་རང་བཞིན་མེད་པར་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་ལ་ཐེ་ཚོམ་(ཟབ་,ཟ་བ་)དང་། གདུག་པ་ལ་བྱམས་པ་དང་ལྡན་པ་དང་། ཐོག་མ་དང་། ཐ་མ་དང་། དབུས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་སྟོང་པ་ལ་ཐོག་མ་དང་ཐ་མ་དང་དབུས་སུ་རྟོག་པ་དང་། དད་ལྡན་གྱི་སེམས་སུན་འབྱིན་པ་དང་། ཇི་ལྟར་རྙེད་པའི་དམ་ཚིག་མི་བསྟེན་པ་དང་། བུད་མེད་ལ་སྨོད་པ་སྟེ་རྩ་བའི་ལྟུང་བ་བཅུ་བཞིའོ། ། དེ་ལ་སྟོབས་ཀྱིས་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ་ལེན་པ་དང་སྟོབས་ཀྱིས་དེའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་ལེན་པ་དང་། གསང་བ་མི་སྦོད་པ་དང་། དམ་ཚིག་ལ་རྩོད་པ་དང་། དད་པ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ལ་ཕྱིན་ཅི་ལོག་གི་ཆོས་སྟོན་པ་དང་། ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པ་པ་དང་ལྷན་ཅིག་ཞག་བདུན་དུ་གནས་པ་དང་། རྣལ་འབྱོར་མི་ཤེས་པར་རྣལ་འབྱོར་པར་མངོན་པའི་ང་རྒྱལ་བྱེད་པ་དང་། མི་དད་པ་ལ་ཆོས་སྟོན་པ་སྟེ་སྦོམ་པོའི་ལྟུང་བ་བརྒྱད་དོ། །

In the language of India: Vajrayānapattimañjarī-nāma. In the language of Tibet: rDo rje theg pa’i ltung ba’i snye ma zhes bya ba (The Cluster of Downfalls of the Vajra Vehicle). Homage to the Blessed One, the glorious Vajrasattva. For those who uphold the vows of Vajrasattva, there are two categories of downfalls: the explanation of the root downfalls and the explanation of the gross downfalls. Regarding the root downfalls, there are fourteen: disrespecting the guru; transgressing the word of the Sugata; finding fault with a vajra sibling out of hatred; abandoning loving-kindness; abandoning the bodhicitta; disparaging the three vehicles; revealing secrets to those who are not fully ripened; disparaging the five aggregates, which are the nature of the Tathāgata; doubting the purity of all phenomena as being without intrinsic nature; possessing loving-kindness for the wicked; conceptualizing a beginning, middle, and end in all phenomena which are empty of beginning, middle, and end; disparaging the minds of those who possess faith; failing to observe the samaya as it has been received; and disparaging women. These are the fourteen root downfalls. Regarding the gross downfalls, there are eight: taking a yoginī by force and taking her bodhicitta by force; not keeping secrets; quarreling over the samaya; teaching perverted doctrines to those who possess faith; staying together with followers of the Śrāvaka vehicle for seven days; acting with the pride of being a yogin without knowing yoga; and teaching the Dharma to those who lack faith. These are the eight gross downfalls.

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.

periodལྟུང་བ → “downfall”. In Vinaya material ལྟུང་བ is a monastic offence (āpatti); 'fall' is the literal sense but reads as a physical fall in English. Use 'downfall' or 'transgression'.

definitionལྟུང་བ “downfall” — See “ transgression .”

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

definitionརྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ “Vajrasattva” — Used as a proper name, Vajrasattva is one of the principle deities of the esoteric Buddhist pantheon, regarded as both a source of the Buddhist tantras and the exemplar of the awakened state. As an adjective, the term va

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

terminologyབྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས → “bodhicitta”. Keep the Sanskrit loan; 'mind of awakening' is a gloss, and mixing the two inside one text reads as inconsistency.

homonymབྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས is rendered “bodhicitta” here; the glossary also records mind set on awakening, resolve of awakening, aspiration to enlightenment for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionབྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས “bodhicitta” — In the general Mahāyāna teachings, the “mind of awakening” ( bodhicitta ) is the intention to attain the complete awakening of a perfect buddha for the sake of all beings. On the level of absolute truth, the mind of awak

terminologyདེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ → “tathāgata”. Kept as the Sanskrit loan in translation (84000 practice), not 'Thus-Gone One'.

homonymདེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ is rendered “tathāgata” here; the glossary also records thus-gone, Thus-Gone One, thus-gone one for other contexts — the sense follows the passage, not a fixed default.

definitionདེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ “tathāgata” — A frequently used synonym for buddha . According to different explanations, it can be read as tathā-gata , literally meaning “one who has thus gone,” or as tathā-āgata , “one who has thus come.” Gata , though literally m

termལྟུང་བ → downfall

termབཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས → the Blessed One

termརྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ → Vajrasattva

termཕྱག་འཚལ → homage

termབླ་མ → guru

termབྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས → bodhicitta

རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའི་བསླབ་པ་ལ་གནས་པས་རྣམ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ་ཡོངས་སུ་སྤང་བར་བྱའོ། ། རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པའི་ལྟུང་བའི་སྙེ་མ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་མཁས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཨ་བྷྱཱ་ཀ་ར་གུཔྟས་མཛད་པ་རྫོགས་སོ། ། མ་ག་དྷཱའི་མཁས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་དེ་ཉིད་དང་། མང་དུ་ཐོས་པའི་དགེ་སློང་བསོད་སྙོམས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་གྲགས་པས་ནཱ་ལེནྡྲར་བསྒྱུར་ཅིང་ཞུས་ཏེ་གཏན་ལ་ཕབ་པའོ། །

Abiding in the training of Vajrasattva, one must completely abandon [these faults] in every respect. This concludes "The Cluster of Downfalls of the Vajrayāna," composed by the great scholar Abhayākaragupta. It was translated, edited, and finalized at Nālandā by that same great scholar of Magadha and the learned alms-collecting monk Buddhakīrti.

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

checkAutomatic check: bracketed gloss waived.

termལྟུང་བ → downfall

termདགེ་སློང → monk

termསངས་རྒྱས → buddha

Terminology used in this text (11)

Term	Rendering	×	Note
ལྟུང་བ	downfall	2	In Vinaya material ལྟུང་བ is a monastic offence (āpatti); 'fall' is the literal sense but reads as a physical fall in En
བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས	the Blessed One	1	84000 harmonises on 'the Blessed One'. Do not alternate with 'Bhagavān' inside one text.
རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ	Vajrasattva	1
ཕྱག་འཚལ	homage	1
བླ་མ	guru	1
བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས	bodhicitta	1	Keep the Sanskrit loan; 'mind of awakening' is a gloss, and mixing the two inside one text reads as inconsistency.
དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ	tathāgata	1	Kept as the Sanskrit loan in translation (84000 practice), not 'Thus-Gone One'.
ཆོས	dharma	1	In Abhidharma lists (སྐྱེ་མཆེད, ཁམས) ཆོས is 'phenomena', the objects of mind — not the Buddhist teaching. Same word, two
དམ་ཚིག	samaya	1
དགེ་སློང	monk	1
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

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).

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