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The Hevajra Tantra

A critical study

By D. L. SNELLGROVE

Lecturer in Tibetan,

Part I

Introduction and translation

London

Oxford university press

New York Toronto - 1959

PREFACE

The core of this work is an edition of the Hevjra-tantra, based upon a Nepalese manuscript, which was kindly lent me by Professor Giuseppe Tucci. This text has been translated with the help of the Tibetan translation and its most important Indian commentaries. Of these one which is preserved in Sanskrit, the Yogaratnamãlã by a certain Kãnha, has also been edited, based upon an old Bengali manuscript belonging to Cambridge University Library. It has seemed sufficient to make quotations from the other commentaries, which are all preserved in Tibetan, and to attach these in the form of notes to the translation of the main text.

The intention of the introduction is to provide some historical religious setting for the text, and to interpret to the reader the essential meaning of the tantra, as it is understood by the commentators. This part of the work is of a more general nature, and I must acknowledge my great indebtedness to Professor Tucci, whose monumental works on the art of Tibet with the many references they contain, have proved a constant support, and also to Louise de la Vallée Poussin and to Paul Mus, whose theories of the development of Buddhism I have learned to accept as fundamentally sound.

Contents

Preface

Bibliography

Introduction

I.                    Apologetic

II.                 Origins

III.               Subject-matter

IV.              Observations

Translation

Part I

Chapter i. The body of Hevajra

Chapter ii. Mantras

Chapter iii. Hevajra and his troupe

Chapter iv. Self-consecration

Chapter v. Reality

Chapter vi. The performance

Chapter vii. Secret signs

Chapter viii. The troupe of Yoginis

Chapter ix. The spheres of Purification

Chapter x. Consecration

Chapter xi. The four gazes

Part II

Chapter i. Consecrations and Oblations

Chapter ii. The certainly of success

Chapter iii. The basis of all Tantras

Chapter iv. Answers to various questions

Chapter v. the manifestation of Hevajra

Chapter vi. The making of a painting

Chapter vii. Books and feasting

Chapter viii. Subjugating

Chapter ix. Mantras

Chapter x. On reciting Mantras

Chapter xi. The five families

Chapter xii. The four consecrations

Résumé of contents

Diagrams

Glossary of special terms

Index

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