The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 15 to 17

Title: THE COMPLETE NYINGMA TRADITION FROM SUTRA TO TANTRA

Secondary Title: Books 15 to 17, The Essential Tantras of Mahayoga

Description:

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 yogin and scholar of northeastern Tibet, completed a multivolume masterwork that traces the entire path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end. Written by a mantra practitioner for the benefit of mantra practitioners living among the lay community, it was intended to be 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.

Books 15 to 17: The Essential Tantras of Mahayoga is presented in two volumes and concerns the first of the three classes of inner tantra. It presents the entire text of the Guhyagarbha Tantra, in Tibetan and English, together with the interlinear sections of one of its most important commentaries, Dispelling the Darkness of the Ten Directions, by the outstanding fourteenth-century master Longchen Rabjam. Also included is Choying Tobden Dorje’s rewriting of Candragomin’s inspirational Extensive Commentary on the Sublime Litany of the Names of Manjushri.

Author: Choying Tobden Dorje

Translator: Gyurme Dorje

Introduction: Alak Zenkar Rinpoche

Publisher: Snow Lion Publications

Style: Hardcover (Two Book Boxed Set)

Edition Print: 2016 (First Edition)

ISBN: 9781559394369

Pages: 1416