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Illuminating the Excellent Path to Omniscience (༄༅། །ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་ངག་འདོན་རྣམ་མཁྱེན་ལམ་བཟང་གསལ་བྱེད་བཅས་བཞུགས་སོ།། །།, Wyl. rnam mkhyen lam bzang gsal byed) is a brief commentary by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo on the Longchen Nyingtik ngöndro.

This commentary is particularly useful for students because it goes into the various visualizations involved in the practice in great detail, and also offers advice on how to do the ngöndro as a daily practice.

There are two versions of the text:

The Essence of the Nectar of Profound Meaning, ༄༅། །རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་དམིགས་རིམ་སྙིང་པོར་དྲིལ་བ་ཟབ་དོན་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཉིང་ཁུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །, sngon 'gro'i dmigs rim snying por dril ba zab don bdud rtsi'i nying khu, the straightforward commentary text, and
Illuminating the Excellent Path to Omniscience, ༄༅། །ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་ངག་འདོན་རྣམ་མཁྱེན་ལམ་བཟང་གསལ་བྱེད་བཅས་བཞུགས་སོ།། །།, rnam mkhyen lam bzang gsal byed, a version of the same commentary that weaves the text with the root verses of the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro. The latter version includes several additional prayers that were not part of Dodrupchen Jikmé Trinlé Özer’s original edition.

Translations

Cortland Dahl, Entrance to the Great Perfection: A Guide to the Dzogchen Preliminary Practices, Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2010
Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, An Elucidation of the Path to Excellent Omniscience, Halifax: Vajravairochana Translation Committee, 1996

References

༄༅། །རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་དམིགས་རིམ་སྙིང་པོར་དྲིལ་བ་ཟབ་དོན་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཉིང་ཁུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Collected Works, Vol. བ་, p.419.

Internal Links

Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol took Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo's Ngöndro commentary as a basis for his own Ngöndro Compendium, which extends and further clarifies Khyentse Wangpo's explanations.

External Links

The commentary with interleaved Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro is translated at:

Illuminating the Excellent Path to Omniscience

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-'''Illuminating the  Excellent Path to Omniscience''' — a brief [[Longchen Nyingtik ngöndro]] commentary by [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]].
+'''Illuminating the  Excellent Path to Omniscience''' (༄༅།  །ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་ངག་འདོན་རྣམ་མཁྱེན་ལམ་བཟང་གསལ་བྱེད་བཅས་བཞུགས་སོ།།  །།, [[Wyl.]] ''rnam mkhyen lam bzang gsal byed'') is a brief commentary by [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]] on the [[Longchen Nyingtik ngöndro]].
-This commentary is particularly useful for students because it goes into the various visualizations  involved in the practice in great detail, and also offers  advice on how to do the [[ngöndro]] as a daily practice.  There are two versions of the text: one is a straightforward  commentary and the other weaves the commentary into  the root verses. The latter version includes several additional prayers that were not part of [[Dodrupchen Jikmé Trinlé Özer]]’s original edition.
+This commentary is particularly useful for students because it goes into the various visualizations  involved in the practice in great detail, and also offers  advice on how to do the [[ngöndro]] as a daily practice.
+There are two versions of the text:
+* ''The Essence of the Nectar of Profound Meaning'', ༄༅། །རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་དམིགས་རིམ་སྙིང་པོར་དྲིལ་བ་ཟབ་དོན་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཉིང་ཁུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །, ''sngon 'gro'i dmigs rim snying por dril ba zab don bdud rtsi'i nying khu'', the  straightforward  commentary text, and
+* ''Illuminating the  Excellent Path to Omniscience'', ༄༅།  །ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་ངག་འདོན་རྣམ་མཁྱེན་ལམ་བཟང་གསལ་བྱེད་བཅས་བཞུགས་སོ།།  །།, ''rnam mkhyen lam bzang gsal byed'', a version of the same commentary that weaves the text with the root verses of the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro. The latter version includes several additional prayers that were not part of [[Dodrupchen Jikmé Trinlé Özer]]’s original edition.
+==Translations==
+*Cortland Dahl, ''Entrance to the Great Perfection: A Guide to the Dzogchen Preliminary Practices'', Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2010
+*Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, ''An Elucidation of the Path to Excellent Omniscience'', Halifax: Vajravairochana Translation Committee, 1996
+==References==
+* ༄༅། །རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་དམིགས་རིམ་སྙིང་པོར་དྲིལ་བ་ཟབ་དོན་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཉིང་ཁུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །, [[Collected works of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo#Vol. 15 (བ)|Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, ''Collected Works'', Vol. བ་]], p.419.
+==Internal Links==
+[[Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol]] took Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo's Ngöndro commentary as a basis for his own [[Ngöndro Compendium]], which extends and further clarifies Khyentse Wangpo's explanations.
 ==External Links==
-*{{LH|tibetan-masters/sakya-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/illuminating-excellent-path|Illuminating the Excellent Path to Omniscience}}
+The commentary with interleaved Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro is translated at:
+*{{LH|tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/illuminating-excellent-path|Illuminating the Excellent Path to Omniscience}}
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