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==English Translations==
==English Translations==
*English translation: ''Vajra Verses on the Natural State'', in Approaching the Great Perfection by Sam van Schaik, pages 170-171.
*English translation: ''Vajra Verses on the Natural State'', in ''Approaching the Great Perfection'' by Sam van Schaik (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2004), pages 170-171.
*English translation: {{LH|tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/vajra-verses-on-the-natural-state|''Vajra Verses on the Natural State''}}, Translated by Adam Pearcey, 2015, at the request of Dza Kilung Rinpoche. The translator is indebted to Sam van Schaik, whose excellent version of this text appears in ''Approaching the Great Perfection'' (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2004, pp. 170–171). Any significant differences in interpretation here are based on our reading of Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol's commentary.
*English translation: {{LH|tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/vajra-verses-on-the-natural-state|''Vajra Verses on the Natural State''}}, Translated by Adam Pearcey.
*Colophon: ''Samaya. Signs are fading. To my only son, Khyentse Özer, this was given by the Samantabhadra of awareness in the manner of a transmission of blessings and realization. Do not show it to anyone, but conceal it in your heart.Thus, in the Akaniṣṭha cave on the twenty-sixth day of the Month of Miracles, at a time when the ḍākinīs gathered during my dark retreat, I set this down on a side of precious paper.This profound aural transmission is sealed with atham. Only this! Only this! The contents are elaborated upon in The Words of the Omniscient One.''
**Colophon: ''Samaya. Signs are fading. To my only son, Khyentse Özer, this was given by the [[Samantabhadra]] of awareness in the manner of a transmission of blessings and realization. Do not show it to anyone, but conceal it in your heart. Thus, in the [[Akanishtha]] cave on the twenty-sixth day of the Month of Miracles, at a time when the ḍākinīs gathered during my dark retreat, I set this down on a side of precious paper. This profound aural transmission is sealed with atham. Only this! Only this! The contents are elaborated upon in The Words of the Omniscient One.''


==Commentaries==
==Commentaries==

Revision as of 19:57, 24 June 2024

Vajra Verses on the Natural State (Tib. གནས་ལུགས་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཚིག་རྐང་, Wyl. gnas lugs rdo rje'i tshig rkang) is a Dzogchen pith instruction and mind-treasure by the Omniscient Jikmé Lingpa.

Tibetan Text

tshig rkang - gnas lugs rdo rje'i tshig rkang（yi) Volume 8 Pages 664-666 {{{3}}} and in Shechen Edition of Longchen Nyingtik Core Texts Volume 3, 525-528.

English Translations

  • English translation: Vajra Verses on the Natural State, in Approaching the Great Perfection by Sam van Schaik (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2004), pages 170-171.
  • English translation: Vajra Verses on the Natural State, Translated by Adam Pearcey.
    • Colophon: Samaya. Signs are fading. To my only son, Khyentse Özer, this was given by the Samantabhadra of awareness in the manner of a transmission of blessings and realization. Do not show it to anyone, but conceal it in your heart. Thus, in the Akanishtha cave on the twenty-sixth day of the Month of Miracles, at a time when the ḍākinīs gathered during my dark retreat, I set this down on a side of precious paper. This profound aural transmission is sealed with atham. Only this! Only this! The contents are elaborated upon in The Words of the Omniscient One.

Commentaries

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

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