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'''Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation''' (Tib. ''Samten Ngalso''; [[Wyl.]] ''bsam gtan ngal gso'') — part of the [[Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease]] by [[Longchenpa]].
'''Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation''' (Tib. བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོ་, ''Samten Ngalso''; [[Wyl.]] ''bsam gtan ngal gso'') — part of the [[Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease]] by [[Longchenpa]].
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==Outline==
==Outline==
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Aside from the root text, there are three other texts on the same topic:
Aside from the root text, there are three other texts on the same topic:


#''A Summary called The Pundarika Garland'' (''rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i bsdus don Pundarika'i phreng ba'')
:1. ''A Summary called The Pundarika Garland''
#A Commentary called ''The Pure Chariot'' (''rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i 'grel pa Shing rta rnam par dag pa'')
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#A Practical Instruction called ''The Quintessential Heart Essence'' (''rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i don khrid snying po bcud bsdus'')
:2. A Commentary called ''The Pure Chariot''
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:3. A Practical Instruction called ''The Quintessential Heart Essence''
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==Translations and Commentaries==
==Translations and Commentaries==

Revision as of 16:28, 20 March 2011

Longchen Rabjam

Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation (Tib. བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོ་, Samten Ngalso; Wyl. bsam gtan ngal gso) — part of the Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease by Longchenpa.

Outline

The root text consists of three chapters:

  1. Locations for Cultivating Samadhi
  2. The Meditator
  3. The Dharma to be Practised

Related Texts

Aside from the root text, there are three other texts on the same topic:

1. A Summary called The Pundarika Garland
རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོའི་བསྡུས་དོན་པུཎྜ་རཱི་ཀའི་ཕྲེང་བ་, rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i bsdus don puN+Da rI ka'i phreng ba
2. A Commentary called The Pure Chariot
རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཤིང་རྟ་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་, rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i 'grel pa shing rta rnam par dag pa
3. A Practical Instruction called The Quintessential Heart Essence
རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོའི་དོན་ཁྲིད་སྙིང་པོ་བཅུད་བསྡུས་, rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i don khrid snying po bcud bsdus

Translations and Commentaries

English

  • The Dalai Lama, Mind in Comfort and Ease: The Vision of Enlightenment in the Great Perfection, Wisdom, 2007
  • H.V. Guenther, Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Part 2: Meditation, Dharma Publishing, 1975

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