Lama Vajranatha
Did the Buddha practice magic? Did Padmasambhava practice magic? Do Tibetan Lamas practice magic? Before we can understand what magic means in the context of the Buddhist teaching and its practice, we must ask what magic means to us here in the West.
This work contains translations from the Bonpo Dzogchen practice manual for the Zhang Zhung Nyangyud, known as the Gyalwa Chaktri of Druchen Yungdrung, and from the Odsal Dunkor, the Sevenfold Cycle of the Clear Light, being the dark retreat practice from the same tradition, translated with commentaries and notes by John Reynolds.
A translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, with a commentary by Lama Tharchin and Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, and an appendix that critically examines the original translation by Evans-Wentz.
Lopon Tenzin Namdak compares the Dzogchen view with the views of Madhyamaka, Chittamatra, Tantra and Mahamudra, indicating the similarities and the differences among them.
The historical origin of the Dzogchen meditation teachings and the relationship of Dzogchen meditation to certain other Buddhist teachings and traditions, such as Yogachara and Ch’an or Zen, has puzzled scholars not only in the West, but in Tibet itself.
Here is a preliminary survey of the Bonpo tradition of Dzogchen meditation known as the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud. This Bonpo tradition is especially important for research into the historical origins of Dzogchen meditation.
Article looks at how Tibetan culture and religious tradition approaches the existential fact of our mortality.
This core Buddhist teaching directly introduces the meditation practitioner to the Nature of Mind, or innate Buddha-nature, which has been there from the very beginning.
Translation of the Twenty-One Little Nails. The Precepts of the Dharmakaya is a translation of a root text and its commentary from the Zhang Zhung Nyan Gyud, with advanced instructions on the practice of Bonpo Dzogchen meditation.