Heart Lamp

Heart Lamp

Book

Book

 Search online

Tsele Natsok Rangdröl is renowned in the Kagyü and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism for his brilliant scholarship, profound exposition, and meditative accomplishment. Comprised of two of his most important texts, this collection presents four essential Buddhist strands of philosophical viewpoint and meditation technique: the teachings of the Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) body of literature; the philosophy of the Middle Way; Mahamudra meditation; and Dzogchen teachings and practice.The theme of these teachings is that in every person’s heart, mind, and spirit there is an identical essence that makes that person a living Buddha. The focus is on how to realize that essence through “effortless” training based on the four techniques. Since the training is unbound by cultural or temporal limitations, the truth the book conveys is as valuable today as it was in centuries past. This system has been applied by people from many walks of life, giving them a simple method to not only withstand life’s challenges but to transcend them. This redesigned edition of The Heart of the Matter and Lamp of Mahamudra features illuminating introductions and a new foreword, bringing Rangdröl’s timeless message to contemporary seekers. (Source Accessed Oct 12, 2021)

Citation	Kunsang, Erik Pema, trans. Heart Lamp: Lamp of Mahamudra & The Heart of the Matter. By Tsele Natsok Rangdröl (rtse le sna tshogs rang grol). Kathmandu: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2009.

ContentsSources

• Advice to Myselfix
• Foreword by H. H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpochexv
• Introduction by Ven. Tulku Urgyen Rinpochexvii

• Lamp of Mahamudra
• Prologue1

• Section One: GROUND MAHAMUDRA
  • The View5

• Section Two: PATH MAHAMUDRA
  • Shamatha and Vipashyana19
  • Faults and Qualities29
  • Experience and Realization37
  • The Four Yogas43
  • The Five Paths and the Ten Bhumis57
  • Enhancement71

• Section Three: FRUITION MAHAMUDRA
  • The Three Kayas of Buddhahood77

• Epilogue85

• The Heart of the Matter
• Introduction93

• Translator's Afterword153
• Well-wishes155
• Glossary for Lamp of Mahamudra157
• Masters and Texts Quoted in
  • The Heart of the Matter197

1. rtse le sna tshogs rang grol, (རྩེ་ལེ་སྣ་ཚོགས་རང་གྲོལ་). chos thams cad kyi snying po phyag rgya chen po'i don yang dag par rab tu gsal bar byed pa dri ma med pa'i sgron ma (ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོ་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་དོན་ཡང་དག་པར་རབ་ཏུ་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པ་དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་སྒྲོན་མ་). In gsung 'bum sna tshogs rang grol, Vol. 2: 1-87. New Delhi: sanje dorji, 1974.
2. ________. nges don gyi lta sgom nyams su len tshul ji ltar bar ston pa rdo rje'i mdo 'dzin (ངེས་དོན་གྱི་ལྟ་སྒོམ་ཉམས་སུ་ལེན་ཚུལ་ཇི་ལྟར་བར་སྟོན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་མདོ་འཛིན་). In gsung 'bum sna tshogs rang grol, Vol. 2: 89-137. New Delhi: sanje dorji, 1974.

The wikipage input value is empty (e.g. <code>, [[]]</code>) and therefore it cannot be used as a name or as part of a query condition.

Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

Go to the page with the definition of 'Kagyü'

Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib. རྙིང་མ་

Go to the page with the definition of 'Nyingma'

Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt. प्रज्ञापारमिता Tib. ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་,ཤེར་ཕྱིན་ Ch. 般若波羅蜜多

Go to the page with the definition of 'Prajnaparamita'

Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt. प्रज्ञापारमिता Tib. ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་,ཤེར་ཕྱིན་ Ch. 般若波羅蜜多

Go to the page with the definition of 'Perfection of Wisdom'

Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt. महासन्धि Tib. རྫོགས་ཆེན།

Go to the page with the definition of 'Dzogchen'