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Restricted Title
PLEASE NOTE: This is a restricted text. It has a seal of secrecy and
is guarded by the protectors of the Vajrayana. Until you have received
the reading transmission and/or permission to read it from a qualified
lineage master, please keep it on your shrine as an object of veneration.
Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, also known as Khenpo Ngakchung or Khenpo Ngaga, was one of the great masters in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. He was an extremely influential teacher who taught some of the great lamas of the next generation, including Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche. Khenpo Ngaga was considered a living emanation of Vimalamitra and Longchenpa.
In this autobiography, Khenpo Ngaga tells his life story through memories
and reflections in a way that presents the entire Buddhist path, including the renunciation of worldly pursuits, finding and attending to a qualified teacher, engaging in mind training, practicing the preliminaries, studying the sutras and tantras, engaging in the generation and completion stages, and Dzogchen. Throughout he shares stories, visionary experiences, and advice that serve as a model for the reader on the path to emulate. The great Tibetologist Gene Smith considered this autobiography so important that he devoted the first chapter of his seminal study Among Tibetan Texts to it, writing that Khenpo Ngaga's autobiography is significant as a treasury of authentic instruction on the essentials of Buddhism and Rdzogs chen meditation.
Wondrous Dance of Illusion: The Autobiography of Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, Snow Lion Publications, Hardcover, 396 pp, $39.95
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CONTENTS: Wondrous Dance of Illusion
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Foreword by Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche
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ix
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Foreword by Tulku Thondrup Rinpoche
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xiii
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Translators' Introduction
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xvii
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Benedictions for the Autobiography by Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche
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3
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Homage and Author's Pledge
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7
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PART ONE. The Period from My Birth to Adolescence
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11
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PART TWO. How, by Relying on a Spiritual Mentor, I Studied, Reflected, and Meditated Impartially upon the Textual Tradition of the Sutras and Tantras
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23
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PART THREE. The Responsibilities That I Assumed While in an Effort to Ostensibly Benefit Others
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137
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Appendix 1.
Elixir That Restores and Increases Faith:
A Compendium of Miscellaneous Biographical Writings about the Omniscient Lama Ngakyi Wangpo by Khenpo Sonam Tenpa
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197
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Appendix 2. Timeline
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221
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Appendix 3. Liturgies by Khenpo Ngawang Palzang
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225
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Supplication and Aspiration Prayer to the Vidyadharas of the Three Lineages |
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Guru Sadhanda: Bringing Down a Rain of Blessings |
232 |
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General Confession Prayer for the Three Levels of Vows |
237 |
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Prayer to Khenpo Ngawang Palzang with a Brief Summary of His Precious Lives |
241 |
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Short Devotional Supplications |
243 |
| Appendix 4: Key to Translations |
245 |
| Appendix 5: Khenpo Ngawang Palzang's Name Variants |
249 |
| Notes |
251 |
| Glossary of Place Names |
281 |
| Glossary of Personal Names |
287 |
| Glossary of Enumerations |
297 |
| Bibliography of Texts Referenced by the Author |
317 |
| Reference Bibliography |
375 |
| Index |
383 |
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