The Six Lamps
eBook - ePub

The Six Lamps

Secret Dzogchen Instructions of the Bön Tradition

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Six Lamps

Secret Dzogchen Instructions of the Bön Tradition

About this book

Esteemed Tibetologist Jean-Luc Achard contextualizes and provides a clear translation of highly secret precepts on Dzogchen practice unlike anything published. 

The Instructions on the Six Lamps is a profound and important work from the Bön Dzogchen tradition and is one of the root texts of the Zhangzhung Nyengyü (Oral Transmission of Zhangzhung) series of orally transmitted teachings. Considered to be the central work of the inner cycle of these teachings, it expertly details the principles of the natural state and its visionary marvels. The root text describes highly secret precepts of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) practice—the teachings of Trekchö and Thögel—as revealed by Tapihritsa to Gyerpung Nangzher Löpo. The teachings in this text represent oral instructions transmitted by a single master to a single disciple in the mode known as “single transmission.” It is through such a practice that one can see the clear light of one’s own mind before achieving complete buddhahood. In this respect, the text contains a complete teaching of Dzogchen, from beginning to end.

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Information

Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781614293644
eBook ISBN
9781614293804

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Part One. Instructions on the Six Lamps: Extracted from the Oral Transmission of the Great Perfection in Zhangzhung
  7. Part Two. Complementary Instructions
  8. Glossary
  9. Bibliography
  10. Index
  11. About the Author
  12. Also Available from Wisdom Publications
  13. About Wisdom Publications
  14. Copyright

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