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Tapihritsa

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Tapihritsa or Tapahritsa (c 7th ~ 8th century) was a Bon practitioner who achieved the Dzogchen mastery of the rainbow body and consequently, as a fully realised trikaya Buddha, is invoked as an iṣṭadevatā (Classical Tibetan: yi dam) by Dzogchen practitioners in both Bon[1] and Tibetan Buddhism.[2] He is known for his achievement of the rainbow body.[3][4]

The historical Tapihritsa was born in Zhangzhung to a family of nomads. Tapihritsa's principal teacher was Dawa Gyaltsen.[4]

Tapihritsa was contemporaneous with Ligmincha, King of Zhangzhung, and Trisong Detsen, Emperor of Tibet.[4]

Tapihritsa is often visualized as representing the realization of all the masters of the Zhangzhung Whispered Transmission (Wylie: zhang zhung snyan brgyud) lineage, one of the three Bon Dzogchen lineages.[citation needed]

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Tapihritsa's primary notable work is The Twenty-One Nails (rdzogs pa chen po zhang zhung snyan rgyud las gzer bu gnyis shu rtsa gcig). There are two translations of this text and commentary into English, as follows:

  • Reynolds, John Mrydhin (2014). The Precepts of the Dharmakaya: Advanced Instructions on the Practice of Bönpo Dzogchen According to the Zhang-Zhung Tradition of Tibet. Vajra Books. ISBN 978-9937-623-15-5. A translation of Tapihritsa's The Twenty-One Nails.
  • Tapihritsa (2019). The Twenty-One Nails: According to the Zhang Zhung Oral Transmission Lineage of Bon Great Completion. Translated by Brown, Daniel P.; Gurung, Sonam. United States: Integral Publishing House. ISBN 978-1-7321579-7-2.

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Further reading

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  • Achard, Jean-Luc (2017). The Six Lamps: Secret Dzogchen Instructions of the Bön Tradition. United States: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-1614293644.
  • Hatchell, Christopher (2014). Naked Seeing: The Great Perfection, the Wheel of Time, and Visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199982912.
  • Reynolds, John Myrdhin (2005). The Oral Tradition from Zhang-Zhung: An Introduction to the Bonpo Dzogchen Teachings of the Oral Tradition from Zhang-Zhung. Kathmandu: Vajra Publishers. ISBN 978-9994664443.
  • Wangyal, Tenzin (2000). Wonders of the natural mind: the essence of Dzogchen in the native Bon tradition of Tibet. United States: Snow Lion Publications. ISBN 978-1559391429.
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