Part 2 of 5 of Longchenpa’s The Four-Themed Precious Garland with Tulku Thadral Rinpoche.

~ DudjomTersarNgondro
On December 18th @ 5pm, Tulku Thadral Rinpoche will continue with the Public Ngondro Teaching ~ Part 2 of 5 of Longchenpa’s The Four-Themed Precious Garland.  Attendance on site at Pema Osel Ling or via YouTube Streaming. If you want to review Part 1 from November 13th, or missed it, you can use this link YouTube Streaming link.  Rinpoche concluded the session with “Your mind wanders with busy-work and it threatens your body life. End of paragraph one on page 7 of Chapter One: Turning your Mind to the Dharma.

This teaching from Longchenpa is similar to the famous “Four Dharmas of Gampopa.” It includes teachings on the general Buddhist, Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Dzogchen approaches to practice.
The Four-Themed Precious Garland:
1. Turning Your Mind to the Dharma
2. Practicing the Dharma as a Path
3. Removing Confusion While on the Path
4. Purifying Confusion into Pristine Awareness

“To realize the beginningless purity and perfection of all reality as an indivisible unity of Voidness and appearance is to realize Dzogchen, the Great Completeness. The lineage of this Mahayana system of meditation traces from Shakyamuni Buddha and was taken from India to Tibet by such masters as Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava and Vimalamitra. It has been transmitted mainly through the Nyingma Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and its oral teachings are preserved unbroken until the present day.”

This text is one of the greatest codifiers of the Dzogchen teachings as witnessed by his trilogy “Kindly Bent to Ease Us”, is an exposition on the “Four Themes of Gampopa,“ the author of “The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”. It includes a survey of the nine vehicles to enlightenment as traveled progressively through the sutra, tantra, and Dzogchen modes of approach, as well as a description of the goal.

This is done primarily by expounding the techniques utilized at each of these stages for removing confusion about the abiding nature of reality.”

The commentary of this text was provided orally by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche and Beru Khyentse Rinpoche.

Where can you get this text? 

Slow Download: Digital Copy of the book
https://annas-archive.org/…/0570f33b2dd7083963301a7…/0/2

Amazon Purchase under $20 incudes shipping:
https://www.amazon.com/Themed-Precious-Garland-
Introduction-Dzog-chen/dp/8185102406/ref=sr_1_1

Abe Books: New and used rang $10-$15
https://www.abebooks.com/book…/author/longchen-rabjampa/