The Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Tupten Trinlé Palzangpo (1927–2022) took Jigme Lingpa's original fire offering, which was composed for both peaceful and wrathful practices—and was itself based on the fire offering for Nyangral Nyima Özer's Kagyé Deshek Düpa—as the basis for this peaceful fire offering for the Rigdzin Düpa practice within the Longchen Nyingtik.
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This prophetic guide of the Longchen Nyingtik was revealed during Jigme Lingpa's initial vision in which he flew to the Boudha stūpa in Nepal. The text recounts the history of Padmasambhava's entrustment of the treasure to the destined disciples, who would later emanate as Jigme Lingpa and his students, to reveal and propagate the Longchen Nyingtik. It also refers to key events in Jigme Lingpa's life and the physical and psychological attributes that identify him as the treasure revealer.
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Advice on how to transform feelings of hope and fear or strong panic by visualizing Guru Padma Tötreng Tsal and recognizing all appearances as the deity's expression. From such a perspective, in the recognition of non-duality, ordinary dualistic perception seems nothing short of incredible.
Verses of advice that stress the importance of recollecting impermanence, training in study, contemplation and meditation, and avoiding the pitfalls of dry scholasticism.
Latest from the Nyingtik Yabzhi Project
The third of three testaments of the buddhas contained in the Heart-Essence of the Ḍākinīs collection, this covers the crucial points of body, speech and mind in Tögal practice.
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In these verses, the Kuri Chhu River answers a series of questions, conveys a message from Marpa's home in Lhodrak, and offers aspirations for the flourishing of the Dharma.
This short versified overview of the two truths—conventional and ultimate—was composed by Chögyal Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen (1235–1280) in 1263.
The author draws upon a variety of sources to compose this plea for the guru's blessings as a means of deepening renunciation, compassion, devotion and realization.
In this reply to a question from a devoted disciple, Gorampa Sonam Senge (1429–1489) explains how to establish the correct view, both according to the Vehicle of Perfections (Pāramitāyāna) and according to the Vajrayāna.
General instructions on view, meditation, conduct, result, and supports of the path, composed for the benefit of a renunciant disciple.
This empowerment rite for the Vajrakīlaya practice of Pudri Rekpung, or 'Razor That Destroys at a Touch', was composed at the request of Chatral Rinpoche, Sangye Dorje (1913–2015).
Patrul Rinpoche does not mince words in this pithy, plainspoken advice for himself. Constance Wilkinson's translation successfully captures the tone of the original.
Dudjom Rinpoche tells us that he composed this aspiration for his own recitation based on the vajra words of advice from great masters of the past. The prayer became one of his best known compositions.
Latest from the Ḍākinī Treasury Series
Seven verses of advice on the nature of the ground, path and fruition and the techniques of view, meditation and conduct.
Verses of advice stressing the importance of maintaining ethical discipline, generating a vast altruistic motivation and diligently practising the Great Perfection.
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Composed in Lerab Ling, France in 2005 at the request of several translators, led by Tenzin Jamchen (Sean Price) and Chökyi Nyima (Richard Barron), this is a prayer of aspiration to be recited by modern-day lotsāwas.
Jamyang Khyentse offered these words of heart-advice, encapsulating the entire Buddhist path, to Khandro Tsering Chödrön (1929–2011), his spiritual consort.
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Texts on the theme of nonsectarianism, impartiality or the absence of sectarian bias, a central ideal of the so-called nonsectarian or rimé (ris med) movement that blossomed in nineteenth-century Kham.
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