Zab lam khrid kyi man ngag 'phrad tshad rang grol
From Buddha-Nature
ཟབ་ལམ་ཁྲིད་ཀྱི་མན་ངག་འཕྲད་ཚད་རང་གྲོལ།
Zab lam khrid kyi man ngag 'phrad tshad rang grol
Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet: Instructions to Guide You on the Profound Path
SOURCE TEXT
Thrangu Rinpoche met Khenpo Gangshar in the summer of 1957 when Khenpo Gangshar went to Thrangu Monastery in eastern Tibet. While there, Khenpo Gangshar gave these instructions, which are a distillation of the essential points ofthe practices of both mahamudra and dzogchen. Later they were written down, first in a very short form and then as the slightly longer text known as "Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet." What makes them so beneficial for our time is that Khenpo Gangshar presents them in a way that is easy for anyone to understand and put into practice. (Source: Vivid Awareness, Translator's Introduction, pp. IX-X)
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Translations of This Text
- Thrangu Rinpoche. Vivid Awareness: The Mind Instructions of Khenpo Gangshar. Translated and edited by David Karma Choephel. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2011.
Recensions of This Text
| Tibetan | Mkhan po gang shar. ཟབ་ལམ་ཁྲིད་ཀྱི་མན་ངག་འཕྲད་ཚད་རང་གྲོལ།, (Zab lam khrid kyi man ngag 'phrad tshad rang grol). In Gsung 'bum gang shar dbang po. Kathmandu: Thrangu Tashi Choling, 2008: 109-135. 
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Philosophical positions of this text
Is buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
Definitive
Not explicit
Do all beings have buddha-nature?
Yes
Not explicit.
Do buddha-nature teachings belong to the zhentong or rangtong view of emptiness?
Rangtong
Rangtong but would argues the Buddha qualities are latent in buddha-nature.
Do the author's writings belong to the analytic or meditative tradition of Uttaratantra exegesis?
Text Metadata
| Text exists in | ~ Tibetan ~ English |
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| Literary Genre | ~ Guidance Texts - khrid yig |
