Kindly Bent to Ease Us: Wonderment (Part 3) (v. 3)

by Longchenpa

Other authorsHerbert V. Guenther (Translator)
Paperback, 1976

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Available

Call number

LON-203

Publication

Dharma Publishing (1976), Edition: part 3, 171 pages

Description

The third volume of Longchenpa's Trilogy shows the practitioner how to transcend ordinary limited perspectives using eight classic and evocative images that reveal the open nature of reality. Can be read independently of Parts One and Two.

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LibraryThing member dirkjohnson
Guenther's isn't the best translation of this wonderful work, but he deserves a great deal of credit for being the first and for having pure intention and doing the best that he was able to at the time with the tools at hand. My only difficulty with Guenther lies in what appears to me to be an
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attempt to reconcile the existentialist philosophy of Martin Heidegger with the Dzogchen philosophy of Longchenpa. I could be wrong. He may simply have been borrowing existential terminology as being the closest European language equivalent and hoping to re-define the terminology as Dzogchen rather than trying to re-define Dzogchen as existentialism.
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ISBN

0913546453 / 9780913546451

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Pages

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