Wylie:Khrid brgya'i sngon 'gro thun mong ba
Having presented the historical background in the foregoing chapters, in the second part of this book, Kunga Drolchok focuses on the actual experiential cultivation of the One Hundred and Eight Guidebooks. The ordinary and extraordinary preliminary practices, briefly presented in Chapter Seven and Chapter Eight respectively are the prerequisites for those wishing to pursue any of the main practices that are compiled in the long Chapter Nine. Among them, Chapter Seven outlines the preliminary approaches suitable for individuals of lowest, average and superior capacity. The endnotes here refer to the detailed and succinct explanation of these topics found in Patrul Rinpoche’s The Words of My Perfect Teacher. As before, the chapter is introduced by auspicious verses and concludes with a signature quatrain.
- Translator's notes
- Note from Ringu Tulku
- The Common Ngondro Practice to the One Hundred and Eight Instructions.
- Notes on authorship
- None listed in the text, but TBRC lists author as ཀུན་དགའ་གྲོལ་མཆོག་ - kun dga' grol mchog.
- Other notes
- Genre from Richard Barron's Catalog
- Instruction manual
- Genre from dkar chag
- jo nang khrid brgya
- BDRC Link
- VolumeI1CZ3980
- BDRC Content Information
- Condensed common preliminary practice for the instruction lineages
Information about Unicode Tibetan and the digitization of this text
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