Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s6.t5.2

v1.c7.s6.t5.2

“Thuvu bkwan blo bzang chos kyi nyi ma” explained great perfection: “it means birth, death and nirvana of all things in the current world reach perfection and completion in the light voidness, so it is named perfection. There is no superior way to be free from birth and death so it is named greatness.” It can be seen that “great perfection” is bright and clean intelligence of human beings for open way and abandonment of impurity of passions and is the inborn pure disposition of all beings. That is to say material movement and change processes of all things in the world as well as birth and death are generated or eliminated in the state of bright and clear voidness of spirits (thoughts) of human beings so that their spirits can be proved clean and pure in this way, people can cultivate according to dharma, so that their spirits will not be polluted and they can reach an ideal realm of voidness and cleanness. If people can treat with this clear intelligence or clean spirit and realise it by special ways, they can obtain nirvana and realise “attainment of Buddhahood in this life”.