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Enlightened Journey, Buddhist Practice as Daily Life
By: Thondup Tulku
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This collection of fifteen articles and talks by Tulku Thondup-never before published in book form- constitutes a manual on how to transmute the situations encountered in daily life, whether external or internal, into spiritual disciplines and experiences.
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Four-themed Precious Garland: An Introduction to Dzogchen
By: Longchen Rabjampa
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To realise the beginningless purity and perfection of all reality as an indivisible unity of Voidness and appearance is to realise Dzog-ch'en, the Great Completeness. The lineage of this Mahayana system of meditation traces from Shakyamuni Buddha and was taken from India to Tibet by such masters as Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava and Vimalamitra.
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Kindly Bent to Ease Us: Part 1-Mind
By: Longchenpa / Guenther
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There is depth, breadth, and magic in Nyingma thought and its beauty grows the more one studies it. Longchenpa, one of Tibet's greatest masters, exemplifies and transmits the transforming power of these ancient teachings. His writings shine with a light that radiates compassion and meaning.
Born in the 14th century, Longchenpa studied with the foremost teachers of his day. He soon earned the title kun-mkhyen, or all-knowing, and the passage of time has upheld the value of his contributions. His works, which number over two hundred, order into a comprehensive system the range of philosophical thought and psychological applications of the Dzog chen school, the pinnacle of Vajrayana Buddhism.
In Kindly Bent to Ease Us Longchenpa offers a guide to enlightenment that begins with traditional reflections on the preciousness of a human existence, finite in time but unlimited in opportunities. Since understanding mind and its workings is essential for a deeper inquiry into meaning and being, the first part of "The Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease" emphasizes insight into the nature of mind. The translator, Dr. H. V. Guenther, introduces each chapter with explications based on Longchenpa's own commentaries.
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Kindly Bent to Ease Us: Part 2-Meditation
By: Longchenpa
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Meditation, the second volume of Longchenpa's Trilogy introduces a central practice of Dzochen, the Teachings of the Great Perfection. The form of meditation presented here is considered the pinnacle of all Buddhist meditative traditions. Its purpose is to liberate us from mind's restrictive operations, and reveal th unparalleled radiance of awareness. The experience of this meditation is like the sun emerging from the clouds; it fills the mind with light and transforms the practitioner's understanding.
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Kindly Bent to Ease Us: Part 3- Wonderment
By: Longchenpa / Guenther
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This third volume of the Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease deals with "the paradox of there being nothing and yet there is a presence." In this poetic work, permeated by the warmth and imagery of direct experience, the 14th-century Nyingma master Longchenpa presents the meaning and scope of Being. Describing our usual human experience as a narrow, dilute form of Being, he encourages us to open our perspective and live in the light of a far more expanded vision.
Interweaving the teachings of Buddhist Sutra and Tantra, Longchenpa explicates the meaning of each of the eight aspects of Being stated by the great philosopher Nagarjuna. He gently eases us into a broader view, revealing our world and experience as an interdependent whole, fluid and alive with meaning. Through this wider perspective we can taste the joy and unparalleled freedom of Being.
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Longchenpa's Advice from the Heart
By Longchenpa & Chogyal Namkhai Norbu
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Longchenpa's Thirty Words of Advice are like nuggets of gold offered to us in his open hand. Their inspiration can turn our mind to a sincere and uncorrupted spiritual practice. Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, with his clear introduction to the principles and practice of Dzogchen, sets in context the thirty words of advice and then proceeds to explain each one as the basis of Longchenpas spiritual experience, in a way that is relevant to us as individuals in our time.
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Maya Yoga: Longchenpa's Finding Comfort and Ease in Enchantment
By: Keith Dowman
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Maya Yoga is the title of Keith Dowman's translation of "finding Comfort and Ease in Enchantment" written by the inimitable Longchen Rabjampa. In the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism, this text is considered second to none in its power to evoke the nature of the nondual reality of the Dzogchen view. With poetic mastery, Longchenpa provides the precepts that can instantly illuminate the buddha-reality that is our ordinary everyday experience. He asserts that we are presently under the spell of magical illusion and that by recognizing it we are instantaneously released from a conceptual cage into enchanting reality which is pure pleasure itself. That reality is maya, apparent yet absent, and the recognition of it in that state of natural relaxation is maya yoga. In this renowned atiyoga manual, we find the key to the natural mystical state that Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, constantly evokes.
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Now That I Come to Die: Intimate Guidance from One of Tibet's Greatest Masters
By Longchenpa
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The first work in this collection, “Now that I Come to Die,” contains Longchenpa’s heartfelt advice to his closest disciples on how to make the teachings a path of transformation. The two other works focus on the powerful practices of the Four Immeasurables: Love, Joy, Compassion, and Equanimity. The commentary, never before published in book form, shows how systematic practice of these “catalysts of being” can upend the usual routines of our daily existence and lead us beyond the limits we have learned to take for granted. Worldliness is done witthis life's show is over!
This new volume also includes the master's own commentary on chapter 7 of Kindly Bent to Ease Us Volume 1, which presents The Four Immeasurable Qualities of Equanimity, Love, Compassion, and Joy, the inner resources for strength, serenity, and well-being.
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Practice of Dzogchen
By: Longchen Rabjam / Tulku Thondup
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The Practice of Dzogchen" is an anthology of writings on Dzogpa Chenpo (Dzogchen) by Longchen Rabjam (1308-1363), the most celebrated writer and adept of the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism. Dzogpa Chenpo is the innermost esoteric philosophy and meditation training, which until recent decades waas only whispered into the ears of heart-disciples by the learned masters. Dzogpa Chenpo employs a meditative technique which effortlessly uncovers the emotional and intellectual layers of the mind and instantly awakens its essential nature, which is Buddha Mind or Buddhahood itself.
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Precious Treasury of Philosophical Systems
By: Longchen Rabjam
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The Precious Treasury of Philosophical Systems discusses the philosophical tenets of the entire spectrum of Buddhist teachings - Hinayana, Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Dzogchen - providing an invaluable perspective on the multifaceted nature of the Buddhist tradition in both India and Tibet. On the basis of his extensive research and nonsectarian viewpoint, Longchenpa analyzes Tibetan Buddhism according to Sarma and Nyingma interpretations, concluding with the innermost teachings of the Dzogchen approach.
This is the fourth volume in our ongoing project to translate Longchenpa's Seven Treasuries and includes an introduction by the Ven. Tulku Thondup Rinpoche and a foreword by H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche.
Padma Publishing is engaged in the long-term project of translating into English the revered Dzogchen commentaries known as the Seven Treasuries, authored by the fourteenth-century Nyingma master, Longchen Rabjam (Longchenpa). This masterpiece, admired by scholars for centuries, synthesizes more than 600 years of development in the spiritual tradition first brought to Tibet by Padmasambhava in the eighth century. Padma Publishing editions include both the Tibetan source text (in Tibetan script) and the English translation, as well as structural outlines, critical notes, lists of key terms, and glossaries.
Producing an English edition of the Seven Treasuries is a daunting task, both scholastically and linguistically. Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, late head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, felt that such a project would be a extremely important undertaking, but pointed out that these comprehensive and profoundly intricate texts presented enormous challenges to quality translation. Every line, and often each word, of Longchenpa's text presents challenges. The Padma Translation Committee established a multi-leveled editorial process, similar to the traditional manner of translation projects in Tibet's great monastic institutions. In addition to having received input and direction from Chagdud Rinpoche, the translators have benefited from several visiting scholars, who have lent their expertise in elucidating and clarifying difficult points in the texts.
It was Chagdud Rinpoche's vision that the Seven Treasuries of Longchenpa be made available to Western students of the Dzogchen tradition, and for this reason he founded the Translation Project in 1987, inviting Richard Barron (Lama Chokyi Nyima) to assist Padma in its endeavors. To date, the Padma Translation Committee has produced two of the Seven Treasuries, as well as numerous sadhana texts, ritual liturgies, prayers, and other practice materials.
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Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena
By: Longchen Rabjam
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Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena
Source or root verses which provide a a poetic summary of the subject matter dealt with at length in the Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission: A Commentary on the Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena also part of the Seven Treasure Series. Treats the great perfection approach of trekcho (cutting through solidity), which brings spiritual practitioners of the highest acumen to freedom effortlessly.
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Precious Treasury of the Pith Instructions
By: Longchen Rabjam
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his work is the shortest of the renowned Seven Treasuries set of texts
by Longchenpa and is the only one composed entirely in verse.
Writing
as a spiritual mentor giving advice to his students, Longchenpa
distills the principles underlying the entire range of Buddhist
practice in 400 stanzas, each consisting of six instructions or pieces
of advice. Although the later stanzas place greater emphasis on the
Dzogchen approach, introductory teachings and advice are interspersed
throughout the book with profound instructions on the nature of being
itself and the ultimate level of truth. Longchenpa's uncompromising
tone reflects his commitment to the highest realization and to the
welfare of those inspired by his message.
Patrul Rinpoche
exhorts us to read the Precious Treasury of Pith Instructions:
"Summarized in groups of six, the perfect treasury of sacred Dharma
distills the heart essence of all pith instructions. Even if you were
to meet the actual Victorious One, wouldn't it be hard to hear
teachings on such an excellent path all at once?"
This volume includes an introduction by Tulku Thondup Rinpoche and a foreword by Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche.
Hardcover, 262 Pages
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Precious Treasury of the Way of Abiding
By: Longchen Rabjam
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Precious Treasury of the Way of Abiding
Longchen Rabjam is revered as one of the greatest masters in the Nyingma school of Vajrayana Buddhism. He wrote more than 250 treatises on a wide variety of topics, but is best known for his works on Dzogchen, especially the extensive scholastic exegesis of the Dzogchen tantras known as The Seven Treasuries. This collection discusses the primordial nature that is the ground of all experience, the view, meditation, and conduct of the spiritual path, and the final freedom that is the fruition of that path.
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Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission
By: Longchen Rabjam
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A Commentary on the Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena
This is a commentary on the root text or source verses of the Precious Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena, part of the Seven Treasure Series. Offers explanations of the root verses on the great perfection approach of trekcho (cutting through solidity), which brings spiritual practitioners of the highest acumen to freedom effortlessly. Longchen Rabjam summarizes the definitive topics of t his approach from the perspectives of the basic space of phenomena -- naturally occurring timeless awareness, awakened mind.
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You Are the Eyes of the World
By: Longchenpa
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Just as the images on television are nothing more than light, so are our experiences merely the dance of awareness.
Often we form attachment to, or feel enslaved by, these experiences. But they are only reflections. As easily as television pictures vanish when the channel is changed, the power of out experiences fades if we penetrate to the heart of reality - the light of the natural mind within everyone.
You Are the Eyes of the World presents a method for discovering awareness everywhere, all the time. This book does not discuss how to turn ordinary life off, it does not describe how to create beautiful spiritual experiences; it shows how to live within the source of all life, the unified field where experience takes place.
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