Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)
This brief instructional fragment outlines a specific meditative procedure for practitioners of the highest capacity to realize suchness. The text prescribes a sequence beginning with the generation of a deity, followed by the dissolution of that deity into emptiness. The central argument is that this process reveals the mind's inherent nature, which is characterized as naturally pure and luminous. By emphasizing that this state is unproduced by causes, the text asserts that the luminous nature of the mind is likewise indestructible. The reader is committed to a practice that moves from conceptual visualization to the direct experience of a non-dual, primordial state of consciousness, utilizing the framework of the Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti to achieve this realization.
Provenance
About this text
A treatise on the meditation on suchness for those of the sharpest faculties, the dbang po rab kyis de kho na nyid bsgom pa is a work belonging to the Yoga Tantra Treatises. It is attributed to the Indian author Mañjuśrīmitra. This classical Tibetan text is preserved in volume ངུ of the Tengyur. The work enacts a meditative procedure based on the Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti, directing the practitioner to generate a deity and subsequently dissolve that deity into emptiness. Through this process, the text argues that the mind is revealed as naturally pure and luminous, asserting that because this state is not produced by any cause, it cannot be destroyed by any condition. By abiding in an awareness sealed by emptiness and free from conceptualization, the practitioner realizes the inherent nature of the mind. A scholar or serious reader consults this two-page fragment today to examine the specific technical instructions for transitioning from conceptual visualization to the direct experience of a non-dual, primordial state of consciousness within the Yoga Tantra tradition.
Cite thisAnuvāda, “Cultivating Suchness By Means of the Supreme Faculty” (Toh 2567), machine draft, 2026.https://naxiai.com/tibetan/works/toh2567
Summary & commentary
Significance
The text is significant for its representation of the intersection between deity yoga and the philosophy of luminous mind. It illustrates a specific tantric methodology where visualization serves as a bridge to the realization of emptiness and inherent purity.
Structure
Passages
Section
Description
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Meditation on Suchness
Instructions on the dissolution of the deity and the recognition of the mind's luminous, unproduced nature.
Themes
Luminous Mind (1)
Deity Yoga (1)
Suchness (1)
Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.
AnuvādaCultivating Suchness By Means of the Supreme Faculty·
Homage to Mañjuśrī Kumārabhūta.
Regarding the meditation on suchness by those of the sharpest faculties through the Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti: Having generated the deity and dissolved them into emptiness, the mind is naturally pure and luminous. Since it is not produced by any cause, it is not destroyed by any condition. Abiding in that very awareness, which is sealed by emptiness free from all conceptual desire, is the dharmakāya. The essence of awareness being unestablished, yet never separated from the experience of self-luminous vidyā, is the saṃbhogakāya. That very clarity of awareness, appearing while lacking inherent existence, is the nirmāṇakāya. By meditating on the inseparability of the three bodies during the causal stage, the three bodies of the fruition are attained: the dharmakāya is the perfection of abandonment and primordial wisdom; the saṃbhogakāya is endowed with the major and minor marks for the bodhisattvas of the ten grounds; and the nirmāṇakāya is the appearance to the beings of the six realms. Thus, the three bodies of the fruition are attained.
This concludes the meditation on suchness for those of the sharpest faculties, composed by the master Mañjuśrīmitra.
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.