Traleg Rinpoche Actuality of Dzogchen and Tantric Perspectives (PDF)

Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche is a great master of our time particularly for the western audience. He has lived much of his life for the benet of his western students and his deeds and compassion are themselves proof of his great mastery of Dzogpa Chenpo and Mahamudra. is book is a great inspiration and deeply illuminating for those seriously pursuing this path. In studying this text may we all appreciate, enjoy, and remember his presence with us.

Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche's Actuality of Being: Dzogchen and Tantric Perspectives takes us on a remarkable journey, bringing the profundity and subtleties of Dzogchen to life in a way that makes approaching this advanced, but essentially simple path achievable. Rinpoche encourages a exibility of mind throughout this book, and points out the important distinctions between religiosity and spirituality, and morality and ethics. He claries the nine yana system and the tantric approach in relation to Dzogchen, and elaborates on key aspects of the view, meditation, and action of Dzogchen practice.