Longchen Nyingtik Core Texts

Longchen Nyingtik Root Volumes (Tib. ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་རྩ་པོད་, Wyl. klong chen snying rtsa pod) — A collection with all the terma's or treasures revealed by Jikmé Lingpa, together with other texts written by himself and others such as the first Dodrupchen, Jikme Trinle Özer, and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, belonging to the Longchen Nyingtik, or Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse

Volume 1

• Ḍākki's Grand Secret-Talk: An Expression of My Realizations (rtogs pa brjod pa dakki'i gsang gtam chen mo) (5-17/18)
  • English Translation: Ḍākki's Grand Secret-Talk: An Expression of My Realizations concerning the Longchen Nyingtig, in Apparations of the self, The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary, Janet Gyatso, Princeton University Press (1998)

• A Great Secret: An Expression of Realizations about my Visionary Experiences Entitled Dancing Moon in the Water (rtogs brjod - gsang ba chen po nyams snang gi rtogs brjod chu zla’i gar mkhan) (19-70)
  • English translation: A Great Secret: An Expression of Realizations about my Visionary Experiences Entitled Dancing Moon in the Water, in Apparations of the self, The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary, Janet Gyatso, Princeton University Press (1998)

• A Casket of Enlightened Mind, a Manual of Essential Instructions, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (gnad byang - klong chen snying gi thig le las/ gnad byang thugs kyi sgrom bu) (71-80)

• The Root Tantra of the Vidyādharas, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (rtsa rgyud - klong chen snying gi thig le las/ rig ‘dzin rtsa rgyud thod pa’i dum bu) (81-87/88)

• The King’s Coronation Kamandalu Vase Root Empowerment, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse, the Inner Enabling Empowerment (rtsa dbang - klong chen snying gi thig le las/ rtsa dbang rgyal thabs spyi blugs/ nang nus pa 'jug pa'i dbang ngo')' (89-94)

• Clarifying the Essential Meaning, the General Meaning of the Empowerment, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (dbang spyi - klong chen snying gi thig le las/ dbang gi spyi don snying po don gsal) (95-131/132)

• The Outer Practice, the Guru Yoga called The Wish-fulfilling Jewel (bla ma’i rnal ‘byor - phyi sgrub bla ma’i rnal ‘byor yid bzhin nor bu) (133-142)
  • English translation: The Excellent Path to Omniscience: The Dzogchen Preliminary Practice of Longchen Nyingtik
  • Colophon: This arrangement of the practices to be recited for the Dzogchen Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro, The Excellent Path to Omniscience, was written by the tantric yogin Jikme Trinle Özer, who was nurtured by the kindness of the vidyādhara Jikme Lingpa as well as many other holy teachers, and attained a firm conviction in the samaya vow. Through this merit, may followers of this lineage actually see the master as a buddha in person, and may this cause Samantabhadra’s original face, their own self-cognizant rigpa, to become fully evident to them, so they become of ceaseless benefit for limitless living beings. Sarvada Maṅgalaṃ!