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Table of Contents: Translators introduction
The Brilliant Lamp: A Summary of the Crucial Points of Mind Practice
An Instruction for Khenpo Jigme Drayang
A Pith Instruction on the Great Perfection for Beginners
Answers to the Questions of Khenpo Jigme Drayang
Taken from the Teachings of the Great Siddha Sherab Yarphel
More from Sherab Yarphel
An Instruction for Yinor
In Answer to a Tulku's Request
An Instruction on How to Practice
Concluding Instruction
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Shechen Gyaltsap (1871-1926) was widely recognized as one of the greatest meditation masters and most compassionate bodhisattvas in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. He lived a life of complete devotion and commitment to monastic discipline and study, and became the root teacher of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, who said of Shechen Gyaltsap's teachings that they were "worth more than all the gold in the entire world." This collection, intended for the advanced Buddhist practitioner who has received initiation from a qualified master, provides the essential instructions of Dzogchen, or Great Perfection, practice. Written with a clear simplicity that belies their profundity, the teachings give practical and pointed advice on how students should meditate and behave in ordinary life. The work begins with an extensive reflection on the problem of self-clinging and the analytical meditation designed to uproot it, and proceeds to more specific instructions for the mind practice itself.… (more)