Dzogchen Essentials: The Path That Clarifies Confusion

Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang, Padmasambhava, Compiled and edited by Marcia Binder Schmidt

ISBN 10: 9627341533 / ISBN 13: 9789627341536

Published by Rangjung Yeshe Publications (16 July 2004), 2004

About this Item

Seller Inventory # LU-9789627341536

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dzogchen Essentials: The Path That Clarifies Confusion
• Publisher: Rangjung Yeshe Publications (16 July 2004)
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9627341533
• ISBN 13: 9789627341536
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 14.73W x 2.29H x 22.35D centimeters 14.73 centimeters width by 2.29 centimeters height by 22.35 centimeters depth

About this title

Synopsis

The Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice known as Dzogchen is a pragmatic method for getting in touch with the pure, clear awareness that is hidden under our constant flow of anxious thoughts. Dzogchen Essentials makes available the methods to meet and utilize this rich spiritual path.

Marcia Binder Schmidt, a long time, close attendant to one of the foremost Dzogchen Masters of the last century, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, has put together the most comprehensive and accessible collection of the essential instructions vital to this subject. She has organized them into a handbook for the genuine trainee of this tradition. The book includes a useful preface an introductory teaching by a leading Dzogchen Master as well as classical and original pieces that impart crucial explanations. This is a book for the layperson as well as the scholar.

For centuries, Dzogchen has been a secretly held and privately transmitted teaching, which was unknown beyond the confines of Tibetan culture. But that changed in the final decades of the last century, as many Tibetans saw the long-awaited unfolding of a famous ninth-century prophecy: "When the Dark Age is rampant, the Dzogchen teachings will blaze like wildfire."

About the Author

Marcia Binder Schmidt has been an editor and publisher of books on Vajrayana Buddhism for over fifteen years. With her husband, author and translator Erik Pema Kunsang, she founded and currently runs Rangjung Yeshe Publications, an independent publisher of Buddhist texts in English.