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- 12:51, 19 September 2024 Gdams ngag mdzod Shechen Printing/Volume 2/Part Seven: Concluding Ritual Texts (hist | edit) [910 bytes] MortO (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This section comprises two texts both composed by Jamgön Kongtrul. The first is a very long sādhana of homage to the forty lineage holders of The ''Heart Essence of Vimalamitra'', from Samantabhadra until Kongtrul’s own teacher, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. It concludes with a gaṇacakra offering. The second text is a sādhana of Ekajaṭī and the six protectors belonging to her retinue. As specified in the colophon, Ekajaṭī is the main guardian of the Heart Essenc...")
- 12:48, 19 September 2024 Gdams ngag mdzod Shechen Printing/Volume 2/Part Six: Texts Taken from The Trilogy of Natural Openness and Freedom (hist | edit) [2,490 bytes] MortO (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Longchenpa’s ''Trilogy of Natural Openness and Freedom'' consists of three root texts referring in sequence to the nature of the mind, the dharmatā, and the state of equality. These root texts are in verse, and each is accompanied by a meditation guide. In Longchenpa’s catalog of his own works,1 titles are given for what appear to be autocommentaries on the three sections of the trilogy. Alas, they seem to have been lost. In the present volume of ''The Treasury of P...")
- 12:44, 19 September 2024 Gdams ngag mdzod Shechen Printing/Volume 2/Part Five: Essential Instructions (hist | edit) [3,165 bytes] MortO (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This section is composed of two items: General Teachings on the Great Perfection by Guru Padmasambhava, followed by the ''Meditation Guide for “Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind,”'' the first part of Longchenpa’s celebrated Trilogy of Rest. The texts by Guru Padmasambhava are found in the Nyingma Kama (the orally transmitted texts of the Nyingma school) and in the treasure texts of Nyangral Nyima Özer, Guru Chökyi Wangchuk, and Dorje Lingpa. In both the Nyi...")
- 12:39, 19 September 2024 Gdams ngag mdzod Shechen Printing/Volume 2/Part Four: Texts Taken from The Profound Innermost Essence (hist | edit) [652 bytes] MortO (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''The Profound Innermost Essence'' is the concluding supplement to ''The Four Parts of the Heart Essence'' and is a commentarial summary of both ''The Innermost Essence of the Master'' and ''The Innermost Essence of the Ḍākinīs''. The present section comprises a long empowerment ritual followed by two texts of guiding instructions. The first of these, ''A Great Guide for the Supreme Secret Path'', contains several extremely concise (and therefore not easy to understa...")
- 12:36, 19 September 2024 Gdams ngag mdzod Shechen Printing/Volume 2/Part Three: Commentarial Material on The Heart Essence of Vimalamitra and The Innermost Essence of the Master (hist | edit) [1,691 bytes] MortO (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''The Heart Essence Mother and Child'' is a composition of Jamgön Kongtrul himself. It sets out the path of practice related to ''The Heart Essence of Vimalamitra'' in conjunction with Longchenpa’s ''Innermost Essence of the Master'', which are respectively the mother and child texts. It explains how this path was practiced in the tradition of Minling Terdak Lingpa and is based on the commentary ''The Excellent Path of Great Bliss'' composed by Terdak Lingpa’s daugh...")
- 12:32, 19 September 2024 Gdams ngag mdzod Shechen Printing/Volume 2/Part Two: Ritual Texts Taken from The Innermost Essence of the Master (hist | edit) [1,213 bytes] MortO (talk | contribs) (Created page with "These texts are principally the rituals for the four special empowerments of the Great Perfection: elaborate, unelaborate, extremely unelaborate, and supremely unelaborate. Composed by Longchen Rabjam, they are taken from ''The Innermost Essence of the Master'' of ''The Four Parts of the Heart Essence'' but are very similar to the corresponding empowerments contained in The Heart Essence of Vimalamitra. They contain a great deal of explanatory material in the form of rub...")
- 12:28, 19 September 2024 Gdams ngag mdzod Shechen Printing/Volume 2/Part One: Primary Texts for the Heart Essence Teachings (hist | edit) [3,501 bytes] MortO (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Part One Primary Texts for the Heart Essence Teachings== The texts in this section fall into two groups: ''The Three Testaments of the Buddha'' and ''The Parting Testaments of the Four Vidyādharas''. ''The Three Testaments of the Buddha'' are taken from ''The Gold-Lettered Instructions'' preserved in ''The Heart Essence of Vimalamitra''. This group of texts in fact contains two sets of three testaments. Coming from a transmundane source, they are all referred to as t...")
- 09:39, 19 September 2024 Gdams ngag mdzod Shechen Printing/Volume 2/Introduction (hist | edit) [34,832 bytes] MortO (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Translators’ Introduction uvWVU In all the annals of Tibetan Buddhism, Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye must appear as in many ways incomparable. His five great treasuries together with his own compositions fill a library of over one hundred volumes. As a founding member of the rime, or nonsectarian movement, he demonstrated a prodigious erudition and assiduity, collecting together the texts and lineage transmissions of the whole of the Tibetan tradition, thereby preservin...")
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