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[[Image:Jkwhandscloseup.jpg|frame|[[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]]]] | [[Image:Jkwhandscloseup.jpg|frame|[[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]]]] | ||
'''Illuminating the Excellent Path to Omniscience''' ([[Wyl.]] ''rnam mkhyen lam bzang gsal byed'') is a brief commentary by [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]] on the [[Longchen Nyingtik ngöndro]]. | '''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. | 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: | 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== | ==External Links== | ||
*{{LH|tibetan | 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}} | |||
[[Category:Texts]] | [[Category:Texts]] | ||
[[Category:Longchen Nyingtik]] | [[Category:Longchen Nyingtik]] | ||
[[Category:Ngöndro]] | [[Category:Ngöndro]] |
Latest revision as of 18:39, 28 December 2017
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: