Nang Jang
The Nang Jang (Tib. སྣང་སབྱང་, Wyl. snang sbyang; Eng. purifying appearances) is a collection of the most secret instructions Dudjom Lingpa received through a series of visions of various enlightened beings, including Vajradhara, Vajrayogini, Ekadzati, Shri Singha, Longchen Rabjam, Saraha, and others.
These instructions point out the view of Dzogchen. This text focuses primary on Trekchö, and is of central importance in the Dudjom Tersar tradition.
The Nang Jang is "a direct transmission of Dudjom Lingpa's Dzogchen approach, so powerful that even hearing it read aloud ensures that the listener will eventually escape the suffering of samsara."[1]
According to Dudjom Rinpoche, "The Nang Jang was prepared as an inexhaustible treasure trove of the gift of the Buddha's teachings, the relics of the dharmakaya."[2]
Root Text
- Buddhahood Without Meditation: Advice for Revealing Your Own Face as the Nature of Reality, the Great Perfection (Tib.
རང་བཞིན་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་རང་ཞལ་མངོན་དུ་བྱེད་པའི་གདམས་པ་མ་བསྒོམ་སངས་རྒྱས་, Wyl. rang bzhin rdzogs pa chen po’i rang zhal mngon du byed pa’i gdams pa ma bsgom sangs rgyas)
- English translation: Dudjom Lingpa, Buddhahood without Meditation, translated by Richard Barron (Junction City: Padma Publishing, 1994, revised edition 2002)
- English translation: Dudjom Lingpa, Buddhahood Without Meditation in Dudjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection Book 2, B. Alan Wallace (translator), (Wisdom Publications, 2016).
Commentaries
- Sera Khandro, Garland for the Delight of the Fortunate. (Tib. རང་བཞིན་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མ་བསྒོམ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཟིན་བྲིས་དཔལ་ལྡན་བླ་མའི་ཞལ་རྒྱུན་ནག་འགྲོས་སུ་བཀོད་པ་ཚིག་དོན་རབ་གསལ་སྐལ་ལྡན་དགྱེས་པའི་མགུལ་རྒྱན, Wyl. rang bzhin rdzogs pa chen po ma bsgom sangs rgyas kyi zin bris dpal ldan bla ma'i zhal rgyun nag 'gros su bkod pa tshig don rab gsal skal ldan dgyes pa'i mgul rgyan)
- English translation: Garland for the Delight of the Fortunate, by Sera Khandro in Dudjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection Book 2, B. Alan Wallace (translator), (Wisdom Publications, 2016). The book also contains her presentation of the preliminary practices, entitled The Fine Path to Liberation.
Further Reading
- Refining Our Perception of Reality, Sera Khandro's Commentary on Dudjom Lingpa's Account of His Visionary Journey, translated by Ngawang Zangpo (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2014)