NEW BOOK: Two Dzogchen Texts from KUSUM RANGSHAR, Oral Teachings by Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak
Yongdzin Lopӧn Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche gave these oral teachings on two Dzogchen texts from Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen’s Kusum Rangshar in 1999 in Paris.
Now, twenty-five years later, the international Bönpo sangha has grown exponentially but, since Yongdzin Rinpoche has now retired from teaching, many newer practitioners may never have met or received teachings from him. With this in mind, we decided to re-edit and republish this precious book because it will surely benefit practitioners both old and new.
These oral teachings by Yongdzin Rinpoche contain concise, detailed and lucid instructions on all the fundamental topics of the Dzogchen Path of Liberation. It is illustrated with the photographs of thögal positions, making this an indispensable study and practice manual which can be used both in retreat and everyday practice by serious practitioners of Dzogchen.
We were delighted to present Yongdzin Rinpoche with a copy of this book last month. In accordance with his clear instructions, this book is restricted to people who have either met Yongdzin Rinpoche in person and received Dzogchen teachings from him, or who have received teachings or transmission for these texts from KUSUM RANGSHAR in person (not on-line/Zoom etc.) from another qualfied Bönpo lama.
To order a copy, please use this Contact Form @ Contact us ⋆ Foundation for the Preservation of Yungdrung Bön (yungdrungbon.co.uk) clearly stating which book you want to buy, and confirming your elligibility. Thank you.
ཐ་ཚན་མུ་ཙུག་སྨར་རོ།། Thatsen Mutsug Marro!
Contents
Foreword……………………………………………………………………. v
རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་སྐུ་གསུམ་རང་ཤར་ལས་ཐོད་རྒལ་སྣང་བཞིའི་ཉམས་ལེན་ངོ་མཚར་སྣང་བའི་ལྟས་མོ།…….. 1
Practice of Miraculous Visions and Signs on the Four Stages of Thögal from the Spontaneous Manifestation of the Three Buddha Bodies of Great Perfection…………………………… 1
19th April 1999……………………………………………….. 3
I. How to practise thögal and integrate with trekchö………… 4
1. What is thögal and why separate trekchö and thögal?.. 4
2. The result of practising trekchö without thögal………… 6
Three supports for practising thögal……………………………… 8
The result of rushen……………………………………………… 10
Q/A…………………………………………………………………… 10
How to practise with sunlight or sky………………………… 11
i. How to recognise Nature of the Base…………………. 11
a. What the real Nature is……………………………….. 12
b. The source of nirvana and samsara………………… 13
How nirvana begins……………………………………. 13
How samsara begins…………………………………… 14
The Base of samsara and nirvana…………………… 15
Q/A…………………………………………………………………… 16
c. Distinguishing between mind and Wisdom…… 19
How consciousness and Wisdom meet………… 19
Four Lamps……………………………………………. 20
The Lamp of the Water Lasoo………………… 22
The Lamp of Pure Empty Nature……………… 22
The Lamp of the Empty Thigle………………… 22
Lamp of Self-Originated Wisdom…………….. 23
Why do visions appear in front of the eye?.. 23
How visions come and go from Empty Nature. 25
Q/A…………………………………………………………………… 26
External meeting…………………………………. 27
Inner meeting…………………………………….. 28
How consciousness and Wisdom can be separate 28
The son goes to the mother’s lap……………. 28
Meditation and non-meditation……………… 29
Q/A…………………………………………………………………… 30
20th April 1999………………………………………………. 33
II. How to develop your practice by purifying inner disturbances 33
1. Methods of body posture……………………………….. 33
i. The Dignified Lion Posture…………………………….. 34
Benefits/Purpose……………………………………….. 34
ii. The Lying Elephant Posture………………………….. 34
Benefits/Purpose……………………………………….. 35
iii. The Rishi Posture………………………………………. 36
Benefits/purpose……………………………………….. 36
iv. The Duck Walking Posture…………………………… 36
Benefits/Purpose……………………………………….. 36
v. The Crystal Antelope Climbing on a Rock Posture 36
Benefits/Purpose……………………………………….. 37
Single Body Posture……………………………………….. 37
2. Methods of Speech…………………………………………… 38
3. Methods of Mind……………………………………………… 38
4. Gazes…………………………………………………………….. 39
i. Doorway………………………………………………………. 39
Q/A…………………………………………………………………… 40
ii. Object…………………………………………………………. 40
Sky…………………………………………………………….. 40
Sunlight………………………………………………………. 42
iii. Breathing……………………………………………………. 42
iv. Awareness………………………………………………….. 42
The benefit of practising with the three supports…. 43
Who sees the visions?…………………………………. 44
v. General Instructions………………………………………. 45
a) What to do – the practice activities………………… 45
Six Practice Sessions…………………………………… 45
i) Early morning……………………………………… 45
ii. Sunrise……………………………………………… 46
iii. When the sun shines…………………………… 46
iv. Midday…………………………………………….. 46
v. Afternoon………………………………………….. 46
vi. Evening…………………………………………….. 46
vii. Dusk……………………………………………….. 46
vii. Midnight………………………………………….. 47
Three Excellent Holy Activities………………………. 47
ii) What not to do – practice without activities…….. 47
The Four Visions………………………………………………….. 48
The Three Lamps…………………………………………………. 48
The External Lamp of the existence………………………. 48
The Inner Lamp of the senses……………………………… 48
The Secret Lamp of Awareness……………………………. 49
Points about body, gaze and mind…………………….. 49
Where the Natural State abides……………………….. 51
A practitioner’s experience during thögal…………… 51
Body……………………………………………………….. 51
Speech…………………………………………………….. 52
Mind……………………………………………………….. 52
What experiences arise during the Four Visions…………. 52
1. The Direct Vision of Empty Nature……………………. 52
2. The Vision of the developing of Luminous Experience 53
i. The experience of consciousness……………………. 53
ii. The experience of visions…………………………….. 54
Practitioners of different capacities……………….. 58
Direction of gazes………………………………………. 59
Further development of visions…………………….. 59
A practitioner’s experience on this stage…………. 59
Body……………………………………………………. 59
Speech…………………………………………………. 60
Mind……………………………………………………. 60
21st April 1999………………………………………………. 60
3. The Vision which comes to the Limit…………………. 60
A practitioner’s experience on this stage……………. 62
Body……………………………………………………….. 62
Speech…………………………………………………….. 63
Mind……………………………………………………….. 63
Q/A…………………………………………………………………… 64
4. The Vision of Waning into Nature……………………… 67
Two types of practitioners………………………………. 68
A practitioner’s experience on this stage……………. 69
Body……………………………………………………….. 69
Speech…………………………………………………….. 69
Mind……………………………………………………….. 69
Four final quintessential instructions…………………. 69
Body……………………………………………………….. 69
Eye Gaze………………………………………………….. 70
Mind……………………………………………………….. 70
Three settlings…………………………………………… 72
Signs of Practice………………………………………… 72
Q/A…………………………………………………………………… 73
Q/A…………………………………………………………………… 78
The importance of practising phowa……………………………. 80
Q/A…………………………………………………………………… 81
རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་སྐུ་གསུམ་རང་ཤར་ལས་སྤྱོད་པའི་མན་ངག་ཡེ་ཤེས་རང་འབར།……………………. 83
Blazing Wisdom of the Quintessential Pith Instructions on Conduct from the Spontaneous Manifestation of the Three Buddha Bodies……………………………………………………………. 83
of Great Perfection…………………………………………………….. 83
22nd April,1999……………………………………………… 85
How to develop daytime practice……………………………….. 85
1. How to develop practice…………………………………….. 85
i. Dzogchen View………………………………………………. 86
ii. Meditation…………………………………………………… 87
iii. Activities…………………………………………………….. 87
Q/A…………………………………………………………………… 87
How to realise Nature……………………………………….. 88
Step 1: Preliminaries and rushen………………………. 88
Step 2: Looking to the source…………………………… 89
Step 3: Integrating with Nature………………………… 89
Q/A…………………………………………………………………… 90
How to correct doubts……………………………………. 92
Q/A…………………………………………………………………… 94 Chöd 95
Book Details:
Paperback: 105 Pages
Dimensions: Digest (5.5 x 8.5 in / 140 x 216 mm)
Intrerior: Black & White, 60# White
Cover: Full colour, Matte
Price: £8.05 GBP (excl. VAT & P&P)
7 Responses
I’m a long time Bon practitioner— first receiving teaching from the Lopon in 1996. I would like to purchase his book on Kunsum Rangshar. Thanks
Please write and tell this to us from https://yungdrungbon.co.uk/contact-us/ as requested in the post. This is a rfestricted book and we cannot give order details on page. Thanks.
Greetings to y’all. I would love to purchase a copy of this latest publication that’s been revised. I am a long time student of Bon, 20 + years studying primarily with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, as well as attending several teachings with His Emmenence Yongzin Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche.
For some reason I have had difficulty receiving what I have ordered in the past. I can only think that something must have been inaccurate with my address. Please be sure you have the most current address.
Thank you so very much.
With great Joy,
Carel
Thank you, Carel. This is a restricted book so please click on the link to the Contact Us form in the post and send your message from there. We cannot give the order link openly here.
Re: the order: FPYB does not send books directly. They are printed on-demand and mailed by Lulu.com so if something isn’t working, please take it up with them. Hope things work fine this time round. Cheers!
I would like to order the new book on kunsum Rangshar.
I was in Paris in 1999 receiving these teachings from Loponla
thank you
Martin
Could you please use the Book Order Form for this publication and state which book you want to order. We can’t reply here. Thanks.
Ich bin langjährige Schülerin von Lopön und würde gerne sein Buch über Kusum Rangshar kaufen, zumal Kempo angefangen hat Kusum Rangshar in Buddhasweg (germany) zu unterrichten.
Danke für eure immer inspirierende Arbeit.
Liebe Grüße
Kathrin Hinderer