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Immaculate Radiance: A Testament
by Longchen Rabjam
One of three final testaments included in the Khandro Yangtik collection, this is the longest and most famous. It includes a series of similes that illustrate the key themes of the general teachings and concludes with Longchenpa's declaration of delight at the prospect of his own death. | Read text >
Added 3 May 2024
Latest from the Nyingtik Yabzhi Project
Vima Nyingtik | Lama Yangtik | Khandro Nyingtik | Khandro Yangtik | Zabmo Yangtik
Precious Instructions on the Common Preliminaries | Zabmo Yangtik
by Longchen Rabjam
Instructions on guru yoga, maṇḍala offering, contemplating the freedoms and advantages, impermanence, saṃsāra and karma, cultivating faith and compassion, contemplating dreamlike illusoriness, and meditating on non-conceptuality. | Read text >
The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Guru Practice | Lama Yangtik
by Longchen Rabjam
From the Jewel Trilogy of the Lama Yangtik, this is the heart-practice of the guru featuring Vimalamitra, which, Longchenpa tells us, confers the blessings and attainments of realization the view and meditation. | Read text >
Restricted | Added May 2024
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Latest from the Longchen Nyingtik Project
Supplementary Texts for Mantra Recitation | Longchen Nyingtik
according to the tradition of Dodrupchen Monastery
General mantras for blessing the rosary (Skt. mālā) followed by verses specific to the mantra recitations of the major Longchen Nyingtik sādhanas: Rigdzin Düpa, Palchen Düpa, Yumka Dechen Gyalmo and Dukngal Rangdrol. | Read text >
Blessing the Vajra and Bell and Visualizing the Field of Merit | Longchen Nyingtik
according to the tradition of Dodrupchen Monastery
General mantras for blessing the vajra and bell, followed by text for the invoking the fields of merit according to each of the main Longchen Nyingtik sādhanas: Rigdzin Düpa, Palchen Düpa, Yumka Dechen Gyalpo, and Dukngal Rangdrol. | Read text >
Added May 2024
Other Recent Additions
by Tromge Tulku Arik
These verses of advice, published in a history of Yachen Orgyen Samten Ling, constitute the only composition of Tromge Tulku Arik's currently available. | Read text >
The Bestowal of the Splendour of Longevity, Merit, and All That Could Be Wished For: A Ritual Arrangement for Summoning Longevity and Prosperity | Wealth and Prosperity
by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
This practice, which combines the summoning of longevity (tshe) and prosperity, (g.yang) is classified as a pure vision (dag snang) of Lhatsün Namkha Jigme's (1597–1650) that was rediscovered by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892). | Read text >
Restricted | Added May 2024
Latest from Samye Translations
Prayer for Disciples | Prayers
by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa
A prayer to Guru Padmasambhava and the lineage masters, taken from the compilation A Shower of Precious Blessings: A Garland of Supplications to Guru Rinpoche, Embodiment of All Refuge Objects, and to the Three Roots and Lineage Masters. | Read text >
Prayer for the Faithful | Guru Rinpoche Prayers
by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa
A prayer to Guru Padmasambhava and the lineage masters, taken from the compilation A Shower of Precious Blessings: A Garland of Supplications to Guru Rinpoche, Embodiment of All Refuge Objects, and to the Three Roots and Lineage Masters. | Read text >
Added May 2024
Latest from the Ḍākinī Treasury Series
Advice to the Great Practitioner Palmo, Beginning with the Ground, Path and Fruition | Advice
by Rendawa Zhönnu Lodrö
Seven verses of advice on the nature of the ground, path and fruition and the techniques of view, meditation and conduct. | Read text >
Advice for Gema Tsultrim Drönma | Advice
by Adzom Gyalse Gyurme Dorje
Verses of advice stressing the importance of maintaining ethical discipline, generating a vast altruistic motivation and diligently practising the Great Perfection. | Read text >
Added April 2024
Highlights from Archive
Commentary on the Seven Points of Mind Training | Mind Training
by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo
This is among the best known and most commonly taught commentaries on the popular mind training slogans. The author, famous for his Thirty-Seven Practices of the Bodhisattvas, writes in the style of the pith instructions, in plain and simple language. | Read text >
Beautiful String of Jewels: A Heart Advice | Advice
by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
Jamyang Khyentse offered these words of heart-advice, encapsulating the entire Buddhist path, to Khandro Tsering Chödrön (1929–2011), his spiritual consort. | Read text >
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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. View topic >
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