Practicing the great perfection : instructions on the crucial points / Shechen Gyaltsap Gyurmé Pema Namgyal ; translated by the Padmakara Translation Group.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhe-chen Rgyal-tshab Padma-ʼgyur-med-rnam-rgyal, 1871-1926, author.

Contributor:

Comité de traduction Padmakara, translator.

Language:

English

Tibetan

Subjects (All):

Rdzogs-chen.

Rnying-ma-pa (Sect)--Texts.

Rnying-ma-pa (Sect).

Perfection--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Perfection.

Genre:

Texts.

Physical Description:

xxi, 152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Shambhala Publications, Inc., [2020]

Summary:

"After Shechen Gyaltsap's death, many claimed that his relics had the power to protect them from all external dangers. His wealth of realization overflowed into literary composition, and he is said to have left four or five volumes of writings. These unfortunately were never properly assembled and published, and were eventually lost. It is said that even in the time when Khyentse Rinpoche was still in Tibet, only one short collection of songs of realization and practice instructions had survived; and perhaps by now these too have vanished into oblivion. The texts quoted by Shechen Gyaltsap in the present book may therefore be the only surviving compositions of that great Dzogchen yogi"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Brilliant Lamp: A Summary of the Crucial Points of Mind Practice

2. An Instruction for Khenpo Jigme Drayang

3. A Pith Instruction on the Great Perfection for Beginners

4. Answers to the Questions of Khenpo Jigme Drayang

5. Taken from the Teachings of the Great Siddha Sherab Yarphel

6. More from Sherab Yarphel

7. An Instruction for Yinor

8. In Answer to a Tulku's Request

9. An Instruction on How to Practice

10. Concluding Instruction.

Notes:

Translated from the Tibetan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781559394932

1559394935

OCLC:

1119476779