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Wondrous Dance of Illusion: The Autobiography of Khenpo Ngawang Palzang
Wondrous Dance of Illusion: The Autobiography of Khenpo Ngawang Palzang


 
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Author: Khenpo Ngawang Palzang
Translator: Heidi L. Nevin, J. Jakob Leschly
ISBN: 9781559394277
Publication Date: Dec. 28 2013


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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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