Report February 2022

This month we were thrilled to publish our longest text thus far: The Lamp That Illuminates the Excellent Path of Great Bliss: A Guide to the Practice Text of the Female Awareness-Holder, the Queen of Great Bliss, or in short the Yumka Zindri, by the Third Dodrupchen, Jigme Tenpe Nyima.

This commentary is the second major commentary on Yumka, the ḍākinī practice of the Longchen Nyingtik, (not including Jigme Lingpa's own writings) after the much longer and more elaborate Raṭik commentary, which it supplements. The text begins with a discussion of the role and significance of Yeshe Tsogyal, and then proceeds to examine the practice itself, highlighting its special qualities and elaborating on many of its profound and subtle features. For an overview of the Yumka cycle and a summary of this and all the other commentaries on Yumka, please see our blog post Overview of the Literature related to the Queen of Great Bliss Cycle.

Tenpe Nyima himself writes at the end of this text “Do not teach this to those who have not received the highest empowerment”. In line with that, our usual restricted text warning applies.

Secondly, our recent translation of Jigme Lingpa’s Aspiration to Be Reborn in the Realm of Sukhāvatī has been translated in Portuguese by Sofia Esteves and can be found here: Aspiração a Renascer no Reino de Sukhāvatī