New Book on Magyu Tummo, Tsalung, Gagsel and the Thigle Practice of Four Joys

We are delighted to share with you the good news that a new full colour book on the Path of Method from the Mother Tantra of Yungdrung Bӧn is now available!

Tummo: Practice of Self-Blazing Blissful Wisdom from the Compassionate Sun of the Mother Tantra

by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin

Translated from Tibetan by Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin, Dmitry Ermakov and Carol Ermakova, with full Tibetan text on each facing page. Illustrations by Yungdrung Rabten.

གཏུམ་མོའི་ཉམས་ལེན་བདེ་དྲོད་ཡེ་ཤེས་རང་འབར།

མཁན་པོ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་བསྟན་འཛིན།

Tummo: Practice of Self-Blazing Blissful Wisdom is a bilingual Tibetan-English hardback edition with 45 full-colour illustrations that includes six texts Drubdra Khenpo composed specifically for practitioners. With detailed instructions on Guru Yoga, tummo, tsalung, thigle practice, and an elaborate explanation on channels, chakras, winds and thigle as well as an invaluable chapter on clearing problems (gagsel), this book is the perfect companion for anyone seriously interested in using these methods to balance their inner elements for self-healing and stabilise their experience of the Natural State. Full colour, with Glossary, illustrations of channels, chakras, mudras, body postures, and a translation of Magyu Guru Yoga, this book also features a specially commissioned thangka of Drenpa Namkha yab-yum for the practice of Four Joys, painted by Geshe Mӧnlam Wangyal.

This project began during the COVID pandemic, just after the Tibetan New Year in February 2021, when Drubdra Khenpo suggested we translate a text from the Path of Method about the practice of thigle. Now, two and a half years later, the project has grown into a comprehensive book including six texts:

The Short Practice of the Threefold Active Contemplation from the Mother Tantra – short practice of Magyu guru-yoga;

Treasury of Quotations containing the Commentary on the Thigle of the Elements according to Mother Tantra – explanations on how to correct deviations, remove various obstacles to contemplation and self-heal various diseases.

Clear Explanations on the daily practice of Tsalung and Tummo in the Mother Tantra, which is both an excellent medicine for healing hundreds of diseases and the essential elixir of immortality – detailed explanations on how to practise tsalung and tummo.

Additional Notes to the Explanations on the daily practice of Tsalung and Tummo from the Mother Tantra – additional clarifications and explanations on how to practise tsalung and tummo in daily life.

The Self-Blazing Wisdom of Four Joys, the practice of Thigles of Bliss and Emptiness in the Mother Tantra – detailed explanations on the practice of thigle, including how to practise in daily life.

Drop of Düdtsi: an annotated commentary on clearing obstacles, according to the commentary on the Practical Application of the Path of Method in the Mother Tantra – explanations on how to correct deviations, remove various obstacles to contemplation, and self-heal various diseases.

Illustrations

As well as creating an entirely new set of illustrations for the practice of thigle according to Drubdra Khenpo’s detailed instructions, we revised and remade several of the colour illustrations used in the previous volume of Magyu Tsalung and Tummo. Many thanks to our artist Yungdrung Rabten for his patience and skill in all aspects of the artwork.

Other illustrations include photographs of hand mudras, body positions and several thangkas. There are also links to videos of Drubra Khenpo chanting Threefold Active Contemplation from the Mother Tantra /མ་རྒྱུད་དགོངས་སྤྱོད་རྣམ་གསུམ་བསྡུས་པ་བཞུགས།། and demonstrating tsalung-trulkhor exercises.

Glossary

Since this book runs into hundreds of pages and deals with complex subjects, we compiled a Glossary to facilitate understanding of various terms and concepts. Entries are in English, Tibetan phonetic transliteration, and Wylie transliteration with some Sanskrit equivalents as well as brief explanations where applicable.

Although this book has been made public following Drubra Khenpo’s explicit wish, we should point out that anyone interested in seriously applying the methods described here must seek an authentic master so as to receive authorisation and transmission in person. This will not only unlock a clear understanding of these instructions but also forge a connection between the practitioner and the blessings of this lineage, thereby ensuring practice bears fruit.

May this book become a valuable aid to all who study and practise Bӧnpo tantra and Dzogchen!

Book Details

Book Size: US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)

Page Count: 259 Pages

Interior Colour: Colour Premium

Illustrations: 45 full colour

Paper Type: 80# White

Book Binding: Hardcover

Cover Finish: Matte

Price: £59.47 GBP (excluding VAT and P&P)

Contents

Foreword………………………………………………………………………………………x,

Translators’ Note…………………………………………………………………………xiii,

About the Author…………………………………………………………………………xiv,

A Brief History of the Magyu Lineage………………………………………….xviii

མ་རྒྱུད་དགོངས་སྤྱོད་རྣམ་གསུམ་བསྡུས་པ་བཞུགས།།……………………………………………1

The Short Practice of the Threefold Active Contemplation from the Mother Tantra………………………………………………………………………………..1,

མ་རྒྱུད་འབྱུང་བའི་ཐིག་ལེའི་རྣམ་བཤད་ལུང་གི་གཏེར་མཛོད་བཞུགས།…………………….21,

Treasury of Quotations containing the Commentary on the Thigle of the Elements according to Mother Tantra………………………………………………22,

            The explanation of the Four Thigles…………………………………….24,

                        1. The Thigle of the Nature of Reality………………………..24,

                        2. The Unwaning Thigle…………………………………………..38,

                                    I. Description of wind……………………………………40,

                                    II. Enumeration of wind………………………………..40,

                                                A. Extensive enumeration…………………..40,

                                                B. Medium enumeration……………………..40,

                                                C. Condensed enumeration………………….44,

                                    III. Categories of wind…………………………………..48,

                                                A. Root wind…………………………………….48,

                                                B. Branch wind…………………………………….62,

            C. Twig wind…………………………………….62,

                        3. Immutable Thigle………………………………………………..62,

                        4. Unborn Thigle………………………………………………………72,

                        Syllables…………………………………………………………………74,

ཉིན་རེའི་འཚོ་བའི་ནང་དུ་ཉེ་བར་མཁོ་བའི་གསང་སྔགས་མ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྩ་རླུང་གཏུམ་མོའི་ལག་ལེན་གསལ་བར་བཤད་པ་ནད་བརྒྱ་སེལ་བའི་སྨན་མཆོག་མཆི་མེད་ཚེ་ཡི་བདུད་རྩི་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས།……………………………………………………………………………………………………77,

Clear Explanations on the daily practice of Tsalung and Tummo in the Mother Tantra, which is both an excellent medicine for healing hundreds of diseases and the essential elixir of immortality……………………………..78,

            1. The key point of the body………………………………………………..80,

            2. The key point of visualising the channels………………………….82,

            3. The key point of meditating on the winds………………………….86,

            4. The key point of expelling noxious breath…………………………96,

            5. The key point of the fourfold wind practice……………………….96,

            6. The key point of developing blissful heat………………………….98,

            7.  The key point of the guiding sounds………………………………102,

            8. The key point of the skilful path of tummo………………………104,

            9. The key point of generating the benefit of bliss………………..112,

            How to practise Magyu tsalung and tummo on a daily basis……118,

གསང་སྔགས་མ་རྒྱུད་རྩ་རླུང་གཏུམ་མོའི་ལག་ལེན་གྱི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་བཞུགས།……………..125,

ADDITIONAL NOTES to the Explanations on the daily practice of Tsalung and Tummo from the Mother Tantra…………………………………126,

            Practising the Key Point of the Body………………………………….126,

            Practising the Key Point of Visualising the Channels……………126,

            Practising the Key Point of Expelling Noxious Breath………….126,

            Performing the Fourfold Wind Practice………………………………128,

            Increasing blissful heat by means of physical exercises with

            the five root winds…………………………………………………………128,

                        1. Practising the upward-moving wind exercise………..128,

                        2. Practising the life-supporting wind exercise………….130,

                        3. Practising the fire-equalising wind exercise…………..130,

                        4. Practising the all-pervading wind exercise…………….132,

                        5. Practising the downward-moving wind exercise……..134,

                        6. Practising tummo……………………………………………….134,

                        Performing the trulkhor exercises in quick succession…136,

མ་རྒྱུ་བདེ་སྟོང་ཐིག་ལེའི་ཉམས་ལེན་དགའ་བཞིའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་རང་འབར་བཞུགས།…………….139,

The Self-Blazing Wisdom of Four Joys, the practice of Thigles of Bliss and Emptiness in the Mother Tantra………………………………………………140,

            1. The key point of the body posture…………………………………..142,

            2. The key point of visualising the channels………………………..156,

            3. The key point of meditating on the thigles……………………….160,

            4. The key point of purifying the impure wind……………………..162,

            5. The key point of practising with the winds………………………164,

            6. The key point of trulkhor which enhances………………………..170,

            Remaining in the Natural State…………………………………………..170,

            How to practise in retreat…………………………………………………..174,

            How long to hold the breath………………………………………………176,

            Purpose and benefit………………………………………………………….176,

མ་རྒྱུད་ཐབས་ལམ་ཁྱེར་གྱི་འགྲེལ་དུ་བསྟན་པའི་གག་སེལ་སྐོར་གྱི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཐིགས་པ།………………………………………………………………………………………185,

Drop of Düdtsi: an annotated commentary on clearing obstacles, according to the commentary on the Practical Application of the Path of Method in the Mother Tantra……………………………………………………………………….186,

            I. Blockage………………………………………………………………………188,

                        a) Blockage of wind……………………………………………….188,

                                    Trulkhor 1………………………………………………….188,

                                    Trulkhor 2………………………………………………….190,

                        b) Blockage of stools……………………………………………..190,

                                    Trulkhor 3………………………………………………….190,

                        c) Blockage of urine……………………………………………….190,

                                    Trulkhor 4………………………………………………….190,

                                    Trulkhor 5………………………………………………….190,

                                    Trulkhor 6………………………………………………….190,

            II. Turbulence…………………………………………………………………..192,

                                    Trulkhor 7………………………………………………….192,

                                    Trulkhor 8………………………………………………….192,

                                    Trulkhor 9………………………………………………….192,

                                    Trulkhor 10………………………………………………..192,

                        Trulkhor 11…………………………………………………………..194,

            III. Imbalance…………………………………………………………………..194,

                        Trulkhor 12…………………………………………………………..194,

                        Trulkhor 13…………………………………………………………..194,

            IV. Incorrect inflow…………………………………………………………..194,

                        Trulkhor 14…………………………………………………………..194,

                        Trulkhor 15…………………………………………………………..196,

                        Trulkhor 16…………………………………………………………..196,

            V. Scattering…………………………………………………………………….198,

                        Trulkhor 17…………………………………………………………..198,

                        Trulkhor 18…………………………………………………………..198,

                        Trulkhor 19…………………………………………………………..200,

                        Trulkhor 20…………………………………………………………..202,

                        Trulkhor 21…………………………………………………………..202,

                        Trulkhor 22…………………………………………………………..202,

                        Trulkhor 23…………………………………………………………..204,

            VI. Roughness………………………………………………………………….204,

                        a. Secret, roughness of the five root winds………………..204,

                                    Trulkhor 24………………………………………………..204,

                                    Trulkhor 25………………………………………………..204,

                                    Trulkhor 26………………………………………………..206,

                                    Trulkhor 27………………………………………………..206,

                                    Trulkhor 28………………………………………………..206,

                        b. Inner, roughness of the winds in the main organs……206,

                                    Trulkhor 29………………………………………………..208,

                                    Trulkhor 30………………………………………………..208,

                                    Trulkhor 31………………………………………………..210,

                        c. outer, roughness of the winds in the sense organs and                          limbs………………………………………………………………..210,

                                    Trulkhor 32………………………………………………..210,

                                    Trulkhor 33………………………………………………..210,

                                    Trulkhor 34………………………………………………..212,

                                    Trulkhor 35………………………………………………..212,

                                    Trulkhor 36………………………………………………..212,

                                    Trulkhor 37………………………………………………..212,

                                    Trulkhor 38………………………………………………..212,

                                    Trulkhor 39………………………………………………..214,

                                    Trulkhor 40………………………………………………..214,

                                    Trlukhor 41………………………………………………..214,

                                    Trulkhor 42………………………………………………..214,

                                    Trulkhor 43………………………………………………..214,

                                    Trulkhor 44………………………………………………..216,

                                    Trulkhor 45………………………………………………..216,

Glossary…………………………………………………………………………………….219,

Further Reading…………………………………………………………………………234,