Heart Lamp

Book

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.

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

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.
________. 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.

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