Dzogchen empowerments

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From the DamNgak Dzo volume 2

The elaborate empowerment manual "The net of Brahma". Author: Longchen rabjam
Unelaborate empowerment called "Jewel Net". Author: Longchen Rabjam .
Very unelaborate empowerment called "Lotus Net". Author: Longchen Rabjam
Extremely unelaborate empowerment called "Net of Light". Author: Longchen Rabjam

Anyone know if these are from the Vima Nyinthik or the Khandro Nyingtik? If anyone knows about a translation of these texts I would be very grateful. Receiving these empowerment's changed the course of my life. Any other information about them are very welcome, I can just find this below on the net.


"Shri Singha was able to withdraw the texts Manjushrimitra had hidden in the rock near Bodhgaya and divided the Secret Precept series of instruction into outer, inner, secret and uttermost secret cycles, graduated according to the heightening lack of conceptual elaboration. These four were to be accessed through the four Dzogchen empowerments - elaborate, simple, very simple and most simple."

http://www.kathok.org.sg/masters/dzogch ... singha.htm


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[mutsuk]

These are from the Lama Yangtik. Translations in French were done by Jean-Luc, although they are unpublished so far.

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These are from the Lama Yangtik. Translations in French were done by Jean-Luc, although they are unpublished so far.

Hi mutsuk, thanks. A little further on in the same volume there is;

The instructions on the two lineages merging into one of the Dzogpa Chenpo Sangwa Nying-tik tradition called "The words of the unstained (Longchenpa)". Author: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye

Is this the manual for the empowerment's I mentioned before or is it a separate empowerment, do you know?

Also a little further;

The sadhana of guru yoga according to Dzogpa Chenpo Man-ngag Nying-tik called "The ornament of creativity of Samantabhadra". Author: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye

Apart from Jean-Luc's translation have you heard of an English of that text?

thanks a lot

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[mutsuk]

Hi,
I just asked JL about this and his answer is that the first text you mention is a later manual on the Bima Nyingthik tradition. It says it represents the merging of the earlier and later Nyingthik, which is the case, as the author himself clearly states at the beginning that this manual contains the profound instructions (zab khrid) merging into a single flow (chu bo gcig 'dres) the tradition of mother and son Heart Drops (snying thig ma bu) of Vimalamitra. By "mother and son" one has to understand here Bima Nyingthik properly and Lama Yangtik. So it's a general manual compiling the instructions of these two cycles into a single text. The teachings were given recently (I don't remember exactly when but it's about a couple of years ago, more or less) in France by Norbu Rinpoche in a Kagyü center.

I don't know any English translation of the second text you list. I will ask JL if he knows and possibly come back to you here if he has an answer. I'm sure you must have already asked Erik Pema Kunsang, no?

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I don't know any English translation of the second text you list. I will ask JL if he knows and possibly come back to you here if he has an answer. I'm sure you must have already asked Erik Pema Kunsang, no?

Thanks mutsuk I do appreciate your help. To ask Erik you got to catch him first.

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Hi,
I just asked JL about this and his answer is that the first text you mention is a later manual on the Bima Nyingthik tradition. It says it represents the merging of the earlier and later Nyingthik, which is the case, as the author himself clearly states at the beginning that this manual contains the profound instructions (zab khrid) merging into a single flow (chu bo gcig 'dres) the tradition of mother and son Heart Drops (snying thig ma bu) of Vimalamitra. By "mother and son" one has to understand here Bima Nyingthik properly and Lama Yangtik. So it's a general manual compiling the instructions of these two cycles into a single text. The teachings were given recently (I don't remember exactly when but it's about a couple of years ago, more or less) in France by Norbu Rinpoche in a Kagyü center.

I was so close to go to that teaching, I got to have some karmic connection there. Anyway, it is an instruction manual not an empowerment?

Also do you know what the "seven groups of Dharma protectors" are in the last empowerment (Ekajati) of volume 2?

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The teachings were given recently (I don't remember exactly when but it's about a couple of years ago, more or less) in France by Norbu Rinpoche in a Kagyü center.

Actually it was in September 2010.

[mutsuk]

Anyway, it is an instruction manual not an empowerment?

Yes it is. It's a "triyik" (khrid-yig), instruction manual.

Also do you know what the "seven groups of Dharma protectors" are in the last empowerment (Ekajati) of volume 2?

They are the Damchen Dedun (dam-can sde-bdun), the seven oath-bound deities : 1. Maning Nakpo, 2. Ekadzati, 3. Remati, 4. Shenpa Sodrup, 5. Zadü Rahula, 6. Dorje Lekpa, and 7. Nödjin Marnak.

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Anyway, it is an instruction manual not an empowerment?

Yes it is. It's a "triyik" (khrid-yig), instruction manual.

Also do you know what the "seven groups of Dharma protectors" are in the last empowerment (Ekajati) of volume 2?

They are the Damchen Dedun (dam-can sde-bdun), the seven oath-bound deities : 1. Maning Nakpo, 2. Ekadzati, 3. Remati, 4. Shenpa Sodrup, 5. Zadü Rahula, 6. Dorje Lekpa, and 7. Nödjin Marnak.

Thank you so much mutsuk! Do you know which text in the DamNgak contain the Longde empowerment because I am sure we got one? Here are the texts that seems to be about Longde in vol 1;

15. The selection of the root texts of Long-de teachings of Dzogpa Chenpo. Author: Need to check pp 379-394
16. The sadhana of the elaborate meditation on the Lama from Dzogchen Long-de Dorje Zampa called "The stream of Wisdom". Author: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye pp 395-416
17. The instruction manual of the meditation according to the precious oral instructions of Long-de Dorje Zampa. Author: Shamar Chennga Chodrak pp 417-440
18. The sadhana of the four yogas of Long-de Dorje Zampa and Heruka Ngon Zog Gyalpo called "The Ocean of Wisdom"; Author: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye pp 440-478

There are 2 sadhanas there, ever heard about a translation?

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[mutsuk]

Hi Magnus,

As far as I can see from the titles and contents, there is no Longde initiation ritual in these volumes. Usually, Longde has a set of initiations centered on Ngondzok Gyelpo (main yidam deity), such as in the Kama collection. I think there are several Italian and French translations of these works but I don't know what is published or not. I know JL has a publication scheduled on Longde but I haven't seen the draft yet.

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Hi Magnus,

As far as I can see from the titles and contents, there is no Longde initiation ritual in these volumes. Usually, Longde has a set of initiations centered on Ngondzok Gyelpo (main yidam deity), such as in the Kama collection. I think there are several Italian and French translations of these works but I don't know what is published or not. I know JL has a publication scheduled on Longde but I haven't seen the draft yet.

Hi mutsuk,

Yeah, strange isn't! But we got a Longde empowerment all right during the DamNgak Dzo. I made a note of it at the time. My memory (which isn't that good) is that it was more like a ordinary empowerment than the Semde and the Mengakde that was far from "ordinary". If anyone is interested the Semde empowerment was this:

The instructions on how to give the empowerment of the eighteen mother and child teachings of Sem-de according to the works of Yungton Dorje Pal Zangpo called "The Instructions of the Lama". Author: Kathok Mogton Dorje Palzang

It took a long time to receive and centered around samanthabadra/samanthabadri and the 8 bodhisattvas and their consorts. If I remember correctly there was four lines of pith instructions for each deity.

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[ratna]

Hi Magnus, No 16 in your list is the empowerment. The translation of the title is a bit misleading, it's not a sadhana, it's a blessing rite.

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Hi Magnus, No 16 in your list is the empowerment. The translation of the title is a bit misleading, it's not a sadhana, it's a blessing rite.

R

Thank you a lot Ratna! That was the missing piece for me. You know anything about translations of the Longde sadhana "The sadhana of the four yogas of Long-de Dorje Zampa and Heruka Ngon Zog Gyalpo called "The Ocean of Wisdom"; Author: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye" and Menagkde guru-yoga "The sadhana of guru yoga according to Dzogpa Chenpo Man-ngag Nying-tik called "The ornament of creativity of Samantabhadra". Author: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye" ?

Thanks a lot!

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Thank you a lot Ratna! That was the missing piece for me. You know anything about translations of the Longde sadhana "The sadhana of the four yogas of Long-de Dorje Zampa and Heruka Ngon Zog Gyalpo called "The Ocean of Wisdom"; Author: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye" and Menagkde guru-yoga "The sadhana of guru yoga according to Dzogpa Chenpo Man-ngag Nying-tik called "The ornament of creativity of Samantabhadra". Author: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye" ?

I don't know about the translations of these texts, unfortunately. The first is a text on the four practices of cleansing; actions of body, speech and mind; the Guru's blessing; and the yoga of the wisdom vajra. The last of these consists of creation and completion, of which this text treats the creation stage practice of Heruka Ngondzog Gyalpo which takes up most of the text.

R

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Thank you a lot Ratna! That was the missing piece for me. You know anything about translations of the Longde sadhana "The sadhana of the four yogas of Long-de Dorje Zampa and Heruka Ngon Zog Gyalpo called "The Ocean of Wisdom"; Author: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye" and Menagkde guru-yoga "The sadhana of guru yoga according to Dzogpa Chenpo Man-ngag Nying-tik called "The ornament of creativity of Samantabhadra". Author: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye" ?

I don't know about the translations of these texts, unfortunately. The first is a text on the four practices of cleansing; actions of body, speech and mind; the Guru's blessing; and the yoga of the wisdom vajra. The last of these consists of creation and completion, of which this text treats the creation stage practice of Heruka Ngondzog Gyalpo which takes up most of the text.

R

Thank you very much for sharing this information Ratna, it is much appreciated. Could you elaborate a little on this four yogas if you feel it is appropriate in a public forum or just send me a PM? Thanks!

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[ratna]

Thank you very much for sharing this information Ratna, it is much appreciated. Could you elaborate a little on this four yogas if you feel it is appropriate in a public forum or just send me a PM? Thanks!

I have really only glanced at this text, it would be better if someone more knowledgeable about this system commented on it.

R