Zabchö Shitro Gongpa Rangdrol

The Zabchö Shitro Gongpa Rangdrol (Tib. ཟབ་ཆོས་ཞི་ཁྲོ་དགོངས་པ་རང་གྲོལ་, Wyl. zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol), 'The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, The Profound Dharma of Self-liberated Wisdom Mind', aka Karling Shitro Gongpa Rangdrol (Tib. ཀར་གླིང་ཞི་ཁྲོ་དགོངས་པ་རང་གྲོལ་, Wyl. kar gling zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol) is a cycle of terma teachings revealing the bardo teachings and instructions of the Nyingma tradition. They were revealed in the fourteenth century by the great tertön Karma Lingpa. The cycle contains the famous Bardo Tödrol Chenmo, the so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Texts

• small sadhana (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol gyi las byang chung ba tshor ba rang grol gyi snying po)
• Highway of the Great Yoga: A Daily Practice for the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Self-Liberated Wisdom Mind (zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol gyi rgyun khyer rnal 'byor chen po'i gzhung lam), by Dodrupchen Jikme Trinle Özer
  • English translation: Highway of the Great Yoga: A Daily Practice for the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Self-Liberated Wisdom Mind, translated by Han Kop for the Longchen Nyingtik Project, 2021.
• Natural Liberation of the Nature of Mind: The four-session Yoga which is a Spiritual Practice of the Vehicle of Indestructible Reality, the Way of Secret Mantras, an extract from the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities: A Profound Sacred Teaching, Natural Liberation through [Recognition of] Enlightened lntention (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol las/ gsang sngags rdo rje theg pa'i chos spyod thun bzhi'i rnal 'byor sems nyid rang grol), by Nyida Özer
  • English translation: pages 8-22

The Great Liberation by Hearing in the Intermediate States

(Bardo Tödrol Chenmo, bar do thos grol chen mo)

• (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol las: sku gsum bla ma'i rnal 'byor gyi gsol 'debs dug gsum ma spang rang rol)
• (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol las: chos nyid bar do'i gsal 'debs thos grol chen mo)
• (khro bo'i bar do'i 'char tshul bstan pa)
• Aspirational Prayer [Calling] to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for Assistance (sangs rgyas dang byang chub sems dpa' rnams la ra mdar sbran pa'i smon lam)
  • English translation: pages 308-309
• (bar do'i rtsa tshig)
• (Aspirational Prayer which Rescues from the Dangerous Pathways of the Intermediate States.

bar do 'phrang sgrol gyi smon lam)

• • English translation: pages 310-313
• (bar do thos grol chen mo las srid pa bar do'i ngo sprod)
• (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol las btags grol phung po rang grol)
• Aspirational Prayer which Protects from Fear of the Intermediate States (bar do'i smon lam 'jigs skyobs ma)
  • English translation: pages 314-316
• (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol las: chos spyod bag chags rang grol)
• (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol las: brgya phyag sdig sgrib rang grol zhes bya ba bar do thos grol gyi cha lag)
• (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol las: zhi khro'i klong bshags brjod pa rang grol)
• (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang gsol las: rig pa ngo sprod gcer mthong rang grol)
• (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol las: 'chi ltas mtshan ma rang grol)
• (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol las: 'chi bslu 'jigs pa rang grol)
• (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol las: srid pa bar do'i dge sdig rang gzugs bstan pa'i gdams pa srid pa bar do rang grol)
• (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol las: srid pa bar do'i dge sdig rang gzugs bstan pa'i lhan thabs lha'i gaN+Di)

Empowerments

• Meaningful to Touch: The Torma Empowerment for The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, The Profound Dharma of Self-liberated Wisdom Mind (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol gyi gtor dbang reg pa don ldan), by Karma Chakme.