The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Book 14

Title: THE COMPLETE NYINGMA TRADITION FROM SUTRA TO TANTRA

Secondary Title: Book 14 An Overview of Buddhist Tantra

Note from the Publisher: This is a restricted text meant to only be read by those who have completed the preliminary practices according to tantric Buddhist custom.

Today is a great day for any of us linked with Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and Pema Osel Ling, and for anyone with a connection to or interest in the vast Nyingma tradition.  

One of the projects most dear to Rinpoche, particularly in his last decade with us, was reviving this 19th century masterpiece, titled in Tibetan as Do Gyud Dzod, literally the Treasury of Sutra and Tantra, by the Repkong ngagpa Choying Tobden Dorje. This text was introduced to Rinpoche by his uncle, the great master Lama Sherab Dorje who came from the same community as the author.  This massive text, at nearly 3,000 pages of Tibetan, is a complete path to Buddhahood.  Rinpoche spent an enormous amount of time breathing new life into this work: collecting the extant editions, proofreading and correcting, marshalling the resources to publish this in Tibetan and English, re-establish this text in its homeland and the West, and more. 

In 1838, Choying Tobden Dorje, a Buddhist yogi-scholar of eastern Tibet, completed a multivolume masterwork that traces the entire path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end. Written by a lay practitioner for laypeople, it was intended to be accessible, informative, inspirational, and above all, practical. Its twenty-five books, or topical divisions, offer a comprehensive and detailed view of the Buddhist path according to the early translation school of Tibetan Buddhism, spanning the vast range of Buddhist teachings from the initial steps to the highest esoteric teachings of great perfection. Choying Tobden Dorje’s magnum opus appears in English here for the first time.

An Overview of Buddhist Tantra is the fourteenth volume from this collection and the first in the series to focus on tantra. Whereas previous volumes presented the general exoteric teachings of Buddhism, this work outlines the esoteric practice of tantra according to the Nyingma system. The author defines the parameters of tantra by dividing the work into outer and inner tantras, and concludes with explaining the result of the tantric path—enlightenment itself. Designed to be a companion for dedicated practitioners who receive direct instructions from a qualified teacher, this work is a comprehensive manual that provides the foundation for understanding the genuine and profound teachings of Buddhist tantra.

Author: Choying Tobden Dorje

Translator: Ngawang Zangpo

Publisher: Snow Lion Publications (Boulder & London)

Style: Hardcover

Edition Print: 2017 (First Edition)

ISBN: 9781559394598

Pages: 416