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

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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 source of the Thodgal visions experienced in practice. Also included in this volume are the Tibetan of the root text in transliteration and further annotations to the transliterations drawn for the extensive oral explanations of Yongdzin Rinpoche given on a number of occasions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Myrdhin Reynolds

John Myrdhin Reynolds (Vajranatha) is a translator of Tibetan, a scholar in the fields of Tibetan Studies, Buddhist Philosophy, and Comparative Religion, who has taught at a cumber of universities in the West.  He was ordained as a Ngakpa Lama in the Nyingmapa tradition by HH Dudjom Rinpoche, and for more than ten years he has worked closely with Lopon Tenzin Namdak on the translation of early Bonpo Dzogchen and Tantra texts.  His earlier works, The Golden Letters and Self-Liberation, published by snow Lion, dealt with the origin of Dzogchen in the Nyingmapa Buddhist tradition coming from India and Central Asia.

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Title
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
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1st. ed.
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9789937623155
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9+311p., 22cm.
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