Commentaries on the Generation, Perfection and Great Perfection Phases of the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse

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Commentaries on the Generation, Perfection and Great Perfection Phases of the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse — A publication of Dodrupchen Monastery that gathers the most crucial commentaries for retreat on the Longchen Nyingtik cycle.

Contents

-An initial exhortation

  • Mountain Dharma Oral Instructions: A Marvellous Ocean of Advice (རི་ཆོས་ - རི་ཆོས་ཞལ་གདམས་ངོ་མཚར་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, ri chos - ri chos zhal gdams ngo mtshar rgya mtsho) (585-600)
    • English translation: A Wondrous Ocean of Advice for the Practice of Those in Retreat in Solitude, in The Fearless Lion’s Roar, in The Collected Works of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Volume 3, translated by David Christensen, pages 229–235.
  • Pith Instructions for Amending Impairments and Breakages, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (མན་ངག་ཀློང་སྙིང་ - ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་ལས། ཉམས་ཆགས་སྐོང་བའི་མན་ངག་, man ngag klong snying - klong chen snying thig las/ nyams chags skong ba'i man ngag)

-Commentaries on the Common Preliminaries >According to the general tradition of awareness holders

  • A Staircase to Liberation: A Commentary on the Common Preliminary Practice of the Seven Points of Mind Training (བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་ཁྲིད་ - ཐུན་མོང་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོ་སེམས་སྦྱོང་རྣམ་བ་བདུན་གྱི་དོན་ཁྲིད་ཐར་པའི་ཐེམ་སྐས་, blo sbyongs don khrid - thun mong gi sngon 'gro sems sbyong rnam ba bdun gyi don khrid thar pa'i them skas)
    • English translation: The Steps to Liberation: Essential Instructions on the Common Preliminary Practice of the Sevenfold Mind Training by Jigme Lingpa, in Steps to the Great Perfection: The Mind-Training Tradition of the Dzogchen Masters, translated by Cortland Dahl (2016), pages 15-106.

>According to the tradition of the omniscient guru, a commentary on the common preliminaries of the Longchen Nyingtik

  • The Application of Mindfulness: A Commentary on the Uncommon Great Perfection Preliminary Practices of the Heart Essence of the Great Expanse (སྔོན་ཁྲིད་ - རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཏིག་གི་ཐུན་མོང་མ་ཡིན་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་ཁྲིད་ཡིག་དྲན་པ་ཉེར་གཞག་, sngon khrid - rdzogs pa chen po klong chen snying tig gi thun mong ma yin pa'i sngon 'gro'i khrid yig dran pa nyer gzhag)
    • English translation: The Application of Mindfulness: Instructions of the Unique Great Perfection Preliminaries of the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse, in Entrance to the Great Perfection, translated by Corland Dahl, pages 61–80.

-On the generation phase in general

  • A General Summary of the Three Yogas: the Oral Transmission of the Great Glorious One (Palchen Düpa) (ཡོ་གའི་སྤྱི་ཆིངས་ - ཡོ་ག་གསུམ་གྱི་སྤྱི་ཆིངས་དཔལ་ཆེན་ཞལ་ལུང་, yo ga'i spyi chings - yo ga gsum gyi spyi chings dpal chen zhal lung)
  • Staircase to Akaniṣṭha: Instructions on the Generation Phase of Deity Practice (བསྐྱེད་རིམ་ - བསྐྱེད་རིམ་ལྷའི་ཁྲིད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པར་གཞག་པ་འོག་མིན་བགྲོད་པའི་ཐེམ་སྐས, bskyed rim - bskyed rim lha'i khrid kyi rnam par gzhag pa 'og min bgrod pa'i them skas)
    • English translation: Ladder to Akaniṣṭha: Instructions on the Development Stage and Deity Yoga, translated by Dharmachakra Translation Committee, in Deity, Mantra and Wisdom: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra, Jikme Lingpa and Getse Mahapandita Tsewang Chokdrub, Snow Lion, (2007).
  • Clarifying the Difficult Points in the Development Stage and Deity Yoga (bskyed rim lha'i 'khrid kyi gnad zung zad bshad pa), by Patrul Rinpoche
    • English translation: Clarifying the Difficult Points in the Development Stage and Deity Yoga, translated by Dharmachakra Translation Committee, in Deity, Mantra and Wisdom: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra, Jikme Lingpa and Getse Mahapandita Tsewang Chokdrub, Snow Lion, (2007).
  • Dazzling Key Points: The Vidyādharas' Manual of Concealed Instructions, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (Rigdzin Düpa) (གབ་བྱང་ - ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་གི་ཐིག་ལེ་ལས། གབ་བྱང་གནད་ཀྱི་མིག་ཚག་, gab byang - klong chen snying gi thig le las/ gab byang gnad kyi mig tshag)
    • English translation: Gabjang—the Inner Mantra Practice: Dazzling Key Points—The Vidhyādhara's Manual of Concealed Instructions, Rigpa Translations.

-On specific practices