The Precepts of the Dharmakaya: Translation of The Twenty-One Little Nails: The Root Text and Its Commentary from the Zhang-Zhung Nyan-Gyud: Advanced Instructions on the Practice of Bonpo Dzogchen According to the Zhang-Zhung Tradition of Tibet
This book presents the advanced instructions on the practice of Bonpo Dzogchen as per the Zhang-Zhung tradition of Tibet. It contains the English translation of the root text and its commentary of The Twenty-one Little Nails, belonging to the fourth cycle of the Zhang-Zhung Nyan-gyud collection. It focuses on the fruit or result of Dzogchen practice, and in particular on the removing of doubts with regard to the Natural State of the Nature of Mind being the ...
The Practice of Dzogchen in The Zhang-Zhung Tradition of Tibet
Translations from the Bonpo Dzogchen practice manual. The Gyalwa chaktri of Druchen Gyalwa Yungdrung and The seven-fold cycle of the clear light, the dark retreat practice from the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud.
The original Dzogchen teachings are found equally in the old, unreformed Tibetan schools of the Buddhist Nyingmapas and the pre-Buddhist Bonpos. These teachings are substantially the same in both schools in terms of meaning, terminology, and practice, both traditions justly claiming unbroken lineages of transmission coming down to the present day from the 8 century, and even before. Moreover, both schools assert that Dzogchen did not originate in Tibet itself, or ...
