Resources

On the lives of the Nyingtik masters

  • Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, The Life and Times of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

  • Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Brilliant Moon: An Autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  • Jamgön Kongtrul, The Life of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

  • Janet Gyatso, Apparitions of the Self

  • Matthieu Ricard, Enlightened Vagabond - The Life and Teachings of Patrul Rinpoche

  • Tulku Thondup, Masters of Meditation and Miracles

Many biographies can be found in:

Other resources

  • Longchen Nyingtik Series on Lotsawa House

  • Anam Thubten, The Citadel of Awareness: A Commentary on Jigme Lingpa's Dzogchen Aspiration Prayer (Dharmata Foundation: 2021), Into the Haunted Ground: A Guide to Cutting the Root of Suffering (Shambhala: 2022)

  • Cortland Dahl, Entrance to the Great Perfection: A Guide to the Dzogchen Preliminary Practices 

  • Cortland Dahl, Steps to the Great Perfection: The Mind-Training Tradition of the Dzogchen Masters

  • Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Liberation from Samsara: Oral Instructions on the Preliminary Practices of Longchen Nyingthig (Bozra Press, 2014 & Wisdom Publications, 2022)

  • Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices

  • Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, The Guru Drinks Bourbon?

  • Gyurme Avertin, The Gathering of Vidyadharas: Text and Commentaries on the Rigdzin Düpa

  • Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang, A Guide to The Words of My Perfect Teacher

  • Klein, Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self

  • Patrul Rinpoche, The Words of My Perfect Teacher

  • Sam van Schaik, Approaching the Great Perfection: Simultaneous and Gradual Methods of Dzogchen Practice in the Longchen Nyingtig

  • Steven D. Goodman, ‘Rig-'dzin Jigs-med gling-pa and the kLong-Chen sNying-Thig' in Tibetan Buddhism: Reason and Revelation 

  • The Longchen Nyingtik ritual tradition at All-OTR by Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche.

Saṅghas practicing Longchen Nyingtik

Although it is acceptable to read some introductions to Vajrayāna, the real practice of tantra can only be done under the guidance of a qualified teacher. The following is an (incomplete) list of teachers and sanghas in Europe and America that practice the Longchen Nyingtik. The Longchen Nyingtik project is an independent project and not directly associated with any of these centres.