This guide provides readers with essential background information for studying and practicing with Patrul Rinpoche's Words of My Perfect Teacher— the text that has, for more than a century, served as the reliable sourcebook to the spiritual practices common to all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. By offering chapter-by-chapter commentary on this renowned work, Khenpo Pelzang provides a fresh perspective on the role of the teacher; the stages of the path; the view of the Three Jewels; Madhyamika, the basis of transcendent wisdom; and much more.
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"Anyone with a true interest in the teachings of Buddha, and especially the practice of Dzogchen, will treasure Patrul Rinpoche's Words of My Perfect Teacher as a simply indispensable source of teachings on all practices, whether preliminaries or main. How wonderful now to have this guide, a priceless treasure of explanation, clarification, and practical advice from the heart of the great oral lineage of the Great Perfection, handed down by Patrul Rinpoche himself and recorded by Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang, one of the most influential Dzogchen masters of recent times."—Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
"The definitive guide to Patrul Rinpoche's classic is now available in English, allowing English-speaking practitioners to deepen their study and understanding of this indispensable collection. This remarkable volume is an important step in the ongoing transmission of buddhadharma to the West."—Khandro Rinpoche, author of This Precious Life
"A brilliant and beautifully tapestried companion to a timeless Tibetan classic. Essential for all who aspire to develop selfless compassion and to follow the path to realization in this life."—Reginald A. Ray, author of Secret of the Vajra World
"The definitive guide to Patrul Rinpoche's classic is now available in English, allowing English-speaking practitioners to deepen their study and understanding of this indispensable collection. This remarkable volume is an important step in the ongoing transmission of buddhadharma to the West."—Khandro Rinpoche, author of This Precious Life
"A brilliant and beautifully tapestried companion to a timeless Tibetan classic. Essential for all who aspire to develop selfless compassion and to follow the path to realization in this life."—Reginald A. Ray, author of Secret of the Vajra World
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Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang (1879–1941) was a major teacher and abbot in the Nyingma Lineage of Buddhism in Tibet. He studied for years with a close disciple of Patrul Rinpoche, from whom he received direct instructions on how to study and practice with The Words of My Perfect Teacher.
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If you are doing the Longchen Nyingthik ngondro or if you are connected in any way to this lineage, this book will open new doors of understanding and depth for you. This is as close to oral pithy instructions as it gets in books. It is a true gem.
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Together with this guide's book mother - "The Words of My Perfect Teacher" -, this book works as a vehicle of the good, correct and true understanding of the noblemen beginnings of the teachings of the Tibetan Buddhism. Who read the book above mentioned certainly was in ecstasy, such the beauty and depth of their teachings. A book wonderful, poetic, heart writing, for a master worthy of like this to be called. And this guide could not leave for minus, because that explains and you/he/she enlarges the understanding that she can reach to the if she reads Patrul Rinpoche's book. And to everything this is added the authority in the great master's Khenpo Hgawang Pelsang subject. These two books have to be acquired together: they are the alpha and omega of the tibetan Buddhism, Yin and Yang, it Lies and Heart, Body and Soul... Without these two preciousness, every understanding and daily practice of the Buddhist teachings they would be as powerful cars without fuel. It is now, with this two books the Buddhism is a car "totalflex" (bi-fuel), as we say in Brazil.
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three supreme methods, arousing bodhichitta, six transcendent perfections, samaya deity, conceptual obscurations, root samayas, conceptual particles, resultant refuge, perfection phase, outer preliminaries, ten positive actions, inner preliminaries, worldly vehicle, liberating instructions, karmic perceptions, supreme bodhichitta, postmeditation period, ten negative actions, causal refuge, pure samaya, expedient meaning, ripening empowerments, unsurpassable teacher, three outer tantras, undertaking positive actions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Perfection, The Words of My Perfect Teacher, Secret Mantrayana, Inner Sangha of Vidyadharas, Middle Way, Ancient Tradition, Basic Vehicle, Causal Vehicle of Characteristics, Secret Mantra Vajrayana, Great Vehicle, Mount Meru, New Tradition, Buddha Bhagavan, Patrul Rinpoche, Way of the Bodhisattva, Courageous One, Four Noble Truths, Prayer of Good Actions, Vast Activity, Condensed Transcendent Wisdom, Guru Vajrasattva, Hemasagara Buddhas, Ultimate Torment New!
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three supreme methods, arousing bodhichitta, six transcendent perfections, samaya deity, conceptual obscurations, root samayas, conceptual particles, resultant refuge, perfection phase, outer preliminaries, ten positive actions, inner preliminaries, worldly vehicle, liberating instructions, karmic perceptions, supreme bodhichitta, postmeditation period, ten negative actions, causal refuge, pure samaya, expedient meaning, ripening empowerments, unsurpassable teacher, three outer tantras, undertaking positive actions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Perfection, The Words of My Perfect Teacher, Secret Mantrayana, Inner Sangha of Vidyadharas, Middle Way, Ancient Tradition, Basic Vehicle, Causal Vehicle of Characteristics, Secret Mantra Vajrayana, Great Vehicle, Mount Meru, New Tradition, Buddha Bhagavan, Patrul Rinpoche, Way of the Bodhisattva, Courageous One, Four Noble Truths, Prayer of Good Actions, Vast Activity, Condensed Transcendent Wisdom, Guru Vajrasattva, Hemasagara Buddhas, Ultimate Torment New!
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- The Words of My Perfect Teacher, Revised Edition (Sacred Literature Series) by Patrul Rinpoche on 4 pages
- Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish by Stanley Frye in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Conquering Drug & Alcohol Addiction Through Hypnosis by Bernie Schallehn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History by Dudjom Rinpoche in Back Matter
- Guru Rinpoche: His Life and Times (Tsadra Foundation Series) by Ngawang Zangpo in Back Matter
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- Dzogchen Essentials: The Path That Clarifies Confusion by Padmasambhava in Back Matter
- The Refuge Vow by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Back Matter
- The Bodhisattva Vow: A Sourcebook by Chögyam Trungpa on page 76
- Blazing Splendor: The Memoirs of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in Back Matter
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