Report March 2024: Repairing Impairments & Conferring the Long-Life Empowerment
This month we have translated and published two texts from the Tsapö or Core Texts, never translated before, bringing us once again closer to our goal of having the complete Tsapö translated. Five texts of the Yumka Dechen Gyalmo cycle have also been published in German. Sehr gut! But we have more excellent news this month: we received a grant from the Tertön Sogyal Trust and we received a very kind message from the great Alak Zenkar Rinpoche!
The grant that we have recently received from the Terton Sogyal Foundation is a Light of Dharma grant to translate the Instructions on the Stages of the Practice of the Approach and Accomplishment of the Guru, Yidam Deity and Ḍākinī of the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (klong chen snying thig gi rtsa ba gsum gyi bsnyen sgrub bya ba'i rim pa grub brnyes rig 'dzin gong ma'i gshegs shul) written by the late Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche (1927-2022). You can read more about it in our blog here.
The message from Alak Zenkar Rinpoche can be read here.
Our first text for this month is the Pith Instruction for Repairing Impairments and Breakages by Jigme Lingpa. This short text outlines a simple method for repairing impairments and breakages of the samaya commitments.
Our second text is The Quintessence of Deathless Amṛta, A Concise Method for Conferring the Long-Life Empowerment of the Vidyādharas Multiple Times, by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. This is a simple liturgy to be recited when conferring the long-life empowerment of the vidyādharas from the Longchen Nyingtik multiple times.
Translations into German
All translated by Karin Behrendt and proofread by Erika Bachhuber.
Die Quelle der Vollendung, die Frucht der zweifachen Wahrheit, Ein Gebet an die Weisheits-Ḍākinī Dechen Gyalmo, von Dodrupchen Jikme Trinle Özer
Der Schauer großer Glückseligkeit, Ein Gebet an die Übertragungslinie der Gewahrseinshalterin (Yumka), von Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
Zusätzliches Bekenntnis- und Erfüllungsgebet für die Ansammlung der Praxis „Den Ruf der Ḍākinīs abwenden“, von Rigdzin Jikme Lingpa
Der grundlegende Leitfaden für die Rezitation der weiblichen Praxis der Königin der großen Glückseligkeit, aus der Herzessenz der weiten Ausdehnung, von Jigme Lingpa
Die Geschichte der weiblichen Praxis der „Königin der großen Glückseligkeit“, von Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa