Union of the Sun and Moon explained

The Union of the Sun and Moon ^[1] is one of the seventeen tantras of the esoteric instruction cycle which are a suite of tantras known variously as Nyingtik, Upadesha or Menngagde within Dzogchen discourse.

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)^[2] an excerpt of the Union of the Sun and Moon into the English language and render it thus:

Primary resources

• Nyi ma dang zla ba kha sbyor ba chen po gsang ba'i rgyud (@ Wikisource in Wylie)
• ཉི་མ་དང་ཟླ་བ་ཁ་སྦྱོར་བ་ཆེན་པོ་གསང་བའི་རྒྱུད @ Wikisource (Tibetan Unicode)
• nyi zla kha sbyor @ TBRC as PDFs of Pecha

External links

• Rachel Pang (n.d.). 'Text Analysis of the Union of Sun and Moon Tantra (nyid zla kha sbyor rgyud)' from the Tibetan Renaissance Seminar
• Namkhai Norbu & John Shane (translators) (n.d.). The Union of the Solar and Lunar Tantra (an excerpt)
• Tantra on the Secret Union of Sun and Moon

Notes and References

1. Source: Union of the Sun and Moon (Wylie: nyi zla kha sbyor) (accessed: Friday March 19, 2010)
2. Source: http://trinity.village.virginia.edu/THDLDictionary/internal_definitions/public_term/159162?mode=search (accessed: Tuesday March 23, 2010)