Report November 2020

This month five new translations were published. We started with a concise fulfilment practice called Rain of Accomplishments for the Queen of Great Bliss cycle, written by Jigme Lingpa himself. This fulfilment practice is so rare that it was not included in previous editions of Jigme Lingpa's collected writings but appears only in modern liturgies of Shechen and Namdroling monasteries.

Also a beautiful new translation was published of a short yet profound prayer found in the Longchen Nyingtik cycle: The Vajra Verses: A Prayer of the Fierce Inner Heat, translated by Ryan Jacobson. This lineage prayer for the practice of tummo, or inner heat, is said to "disclose all the most essential points related to the path of the completion stage.”

A while ago we published an additional text for the Natural Liberation of Suffering practice, A Detailed Visualization of the Great Compassionate One’s Retinue written by the 1st Dodrupchen, Jikme Trinle Özer. That text was kept at Dodrupchen monastery, but somehow did not (yet) find its way into the Longchen Nyingtik Core Texts (tsapö). We can find another, slighter shorter version, called The Visualization of the Four Goddesses of the Great Compassionate One, composed by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo in the collection of the Core Texts, and so we have also translated that one.

Then we published a translation of an alternative or perhaps supplementary lineage prayer for Yumka Dechen Gyalmo, or The Queen of Great Bliss, the peaceful ḍākinī sādhana from the Longchen Nyingtik cycle, composed by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo called The Shower of Great Bliss.

Our final publication is yet another text by Khyentse Wangpo, the Essential Activity Manual for Palchen Düpa. This version of the Palchen Düpa sādhana was arranged by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo from the original revelation for daily use or for when the practice has to be done repeatedly in a single day, such as during a great accomplishment practice (drupchen). It is of a medium size, shorter than the full revelation but longer than the daily practice, which Khyentse Wangpo also compiled.

Finally, this month was the anniversary of Adzom Drukpa, who was one of the greatest lineage holders and propagators of the Longchen Nyingtik teachings, and so we have written a special blog post about him, which includes a list of his writings pertaining to the Longchen Nyingtik.

མཐར་ཐུག་རྩ་རླུང་ཐིག་ལེ་དབུ་མར་ཐིམ། །

Bless me so that ultimately the channels, wind-energies and essences dissolve into the central channel,

ཀ་དག་གདོད་མའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་མངོན་དུ་གྱུར། །

Bringing realization of the wisdom of primordial alpha-purity,

ལྷུན་གྲུབ་འོད་གསལ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་གསེང་ལམ་ནས། །

And, on the secret, indestructible path of spontaneously present luminosity,

ཟུང་འཇུག་གོ་འཕང་འགྲུབ་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས།།

I may attain the level of union!

-From the Shower of Great Bliss, by Khyentse Wangpo

Khyentse Wangpo, Nyingtik refuge tree Dodrupchen Monastery