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The Union of the Sun and Moon is one of the 'Seventeen tantras

Seventeen tantras

In Tibetan Buddhism, specifically in the literature and practice of Dzogchen, the seventeen tantras of the esoteric instruction cycle are a suite of tantras belonging to the textual division known as the "esoteric instruction cycle" .-History and tradition:The seventeen tantras, though not...

of the esoteric instruction cycle' which are a suite of tantras known variously as: Nyingtik, Upadesha or Menngagde

Menngagde

In Tibetan Buddhism and Bön, Menngagde , , is the name of one of three scriptural and lineage divisions within Dzogchen, teachings...

within Dzogchen

Dzogchen

According to Tibetan Buddhism and Bön, Dzogchen is the natural, primordial state or natural condition of the mind, and a body of teachings and meditation practices aimed at realizing that condition. Dzogchen, or "Great Perfection", is a central teaching of the Nyingma school also practiced by...

discourse.

"This tantra shows which experience a person undergoes in the intermediate state, the bardo, after passing away. It teaches how to resolve one's master's oral instructions during the bardo of this life, how to stabilize awareness during the bardo of dying, how to attain enlightenment through recognizing awareness during the bardo of dharmata, and, if necessary, how to be assured a rebirth in a natural nirmanakaya realm during the bardo of becoming and there reveal buddhahood without further rebirths."

English discourse

Namkha'i and Shane (1986, 1999: p. 91) open the discourse of the 'Song of the Vajra' (Wylie: rdo rje'i glu zhig) an excerpt of the Union of the Sun and Moon into the English language and render it thus:

Unborn, yet continuing without interruption,

neither coming nor going, omnipresent,

Supreme Dharma,

unchangeable space, without definition,

spontaneously self-liberating--

perfectly unobstructed state--

manifest from the very beginning,

self-created, without location,

with nothing negative to reject,

and nothing positive to accept,

infinite expanse, penetrating everywhere,

immense, and without limits, without ties,

with nothing even to dissolve

or to be liberated from,

manifest beyond space and time,

existing from the beginning,

immense ying [Wylie: dbyings, inner space,

radiant through clarity

like the [S]un and the [M]oon,

self-perfected,

indestructible like a Vajra,

stable as a mountain,

pure as a lotus,

strong as a lion,

incomparable pleasure beyond all limits,

illumination, equanimity,

peak of the Dharma,

light of the [U]niverse,

perfect from the beginning.

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