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This book contains the English translation of four Dzokchen texts belonging to the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. Dzokchen, the Great Perfection, is the quintessence of the tantric paths to Buddhahood.

         Among these texts, Secret Instruction in a Garland of Vision is one of three texts said to have been written by Padmasambhava, Tibet’s great Guru, who visited Tibet in the eighth century.

         The Flight of the Garuda, written by Shabkar Lama in the nineteenth century, comprises a series of twenty-three spiritual songs designed to inspire and instruct the yogin practicing Dzokchen trekcho meditation.  And  two shorter works from extracts from two termas” Emptying the Depths of Helu revealed by Guru Chowong and The Wishing Prayer of Kuntu Zangpo, revealed by Rikdzin Godemchan

Dowman Flight of the GerudaThis book contains the English translation of four Dzokchen texts belonging to the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism.

Dzokchen, the Great Perfection, is the quintessence of the tantric paths to Buddhahood.Among these texts, Secret Instruction in a Garland of Vision is one of three texts said to have been written by Padmasambhava, Tibet’s great Guru, who visited Tibet in the eighth century. It belongs to the lam rim genre, a stage-by-stage description of the path to Buddhahood.

The Flight of the Garuda, written by Shabkar Lama in the nineteenth century, comprises a series of twenty-three songs designed to inspire and instruct the yogin practicing Dzokchen Trekcho meditation. The two shorter versified works are extracts from liturgical “revealed texts.” Emptying the Depths of Hell revealed by Guru Chowong in the thirteenth century, provides a Dzokchen confessional liturgy, and The Wish-Granting Prayer of Kuntu Zangpo, revealed by Rikdzin Godemchan in the fourteenth century as part of an extensive Dzokchen tantra, is a prayer for attainment of the Dzokchen goal.