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Longchen Nyingthig

January 01, 1970

Longchen Nyingthig (Tibetan: ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་, Wylie: klong chen snying thig) is a terma, revealed scripture, of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, which gives a systematic explanation of Dzogchen. It was revealed by Jigme Lingpa (1730–1798).[a]

Jigme Lingpa

Etymology edit

Longchen Nyingthig may be translated as 'seminal heart of Longchenpa', or 'vast expanse heart essence', a reference to the central figure of Jigme Lingpa's 'pure visions' (Wylie: dag-snang) in which the texts were revealed. 'Nyingthig' (which connotes 'seminal essence' or 'heart focus'). 'Thig' is an etymon of 'thig-le' which is the Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit 'bindu', the central point of the 'mandala' (Tibetan: khorlo).

Alternate orthographies: Longchen Nyingtik.

History and background edit

Dzogchen teachings have been classified in three sections namely: Semde (mind class/cycle); Longdé (space class/cycle); and Mengagde (direct/oral instruction class/cycle).[1]

Shri Singha divided the Mengagde into a further four cycles: the outer, inner, esoteric, and innermost esoteric cycle.[2] They are teachings on the "primordially pure nature" (or kadag; Wylie: ka dag). The recognition of this "primordially pure nature" is called trekchö (Wylie: khregs ch'od), "cutting through" all the grasping, clinging and apprehending[3] which obscures the "primordially pure nature."

The 'innermost esoteric cycle' of the Mengagde is focused upon the 'spontaneous perfection of appearances' (lhündrub tögal; Wylie: lhun grub thod rgal) which is known as tögal, the 'direct approach.'[4]

There are two principal historical redactions and elucidations given the nomenclature 'Nyingthig', namely the Vima Nyingthig brought to Tibet by Vimalamitra and the Khandro Nyingthig brought to Tibet by Padmasambhava.[4] Into the mindstream of Jigme Lingpa merged the mindstream tributaries of Vimalamitra and King Trisong Detsen of whom he, Jigme Lingpa, was a joint 'emanation' (Tibetan: tulku) or 'embodiment' (Sanskrit: nirmanakaya). Now as was previously stated Vimalamitra brought the Vima Nyingthig to Tibet. Padmasambhava, who brought the Khandro Nyingthig to Tibet, transmitted this to King Trisong Detsen. So both the Khandro Nyingthig and the Vima Nyingthig were within the mindstream of Jigme Lingpa and were realised by him as 'mind treasure' or 'mind terma' (Wylie: dgongs-gter). Thondup & Talbott state:

Jigme Lingpa was a reincarnation of both Vimalamitra himself and King Trisong Detsen, who was a recipient of Nyingthig teachings from Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) and Vimalamitra. So the Nyingthig teachings of two major lineages flowed together in Jigme Lingpa. Longchen Nyingthig is the essence or embodiment of the two Nyingthig traditions, Vima Nyingthig and Khandro Nyingthig.[5]

Revelation edit

Thondup and Talbott state that:

While transmitting esoteric teachings to his realized disciples in Tibet, Guru Padmasambhava concealed many teachings with the blessings of his enlightened mind stream in the nature of the intrinsic awareness of the minds of his disciples through the power of “mind-mandated transmission” (Wylie: gtad rgya); thereby the master and disciple became united as one in the teachings and realization. Here, the master has concealed the teachings and blessings, the esoteric attainments, as ter in the pure nature of the minds of his disciples through his enlightened power, and he has made aspirations that the ter may be discovered for the sake of beings when the appropriate time comes.[6]

Thondup and Talbott state that when Jigme Lingpa was 28 years old:

In the evening of the twenty-fifth day of the tenth month of the Fire Ox year of the thirteenth Rabjung cycle (1757), he went to bed with an unbearable devotion to Guru Rinpoche in his heart; a stream of tears of sadness continuously wet his face because he was not in Guru Rinpoche’s presence, and unceasing words of prayers kept singing in his breath.

He remained in the depths of that meditation experience of clear luminosity (Wylie: 'od gsal gyi snang ba) for a long time. While being absorbed in that luminous clarity, he experienced flying a long distance through the sky while riding a white lion. He finally reached a circular path, which he thought to be the circumambulation path of Charung Khashor, now known as Bodhnath Stūpa, and important Buddhist monument of giant structure in Nepal.[7]

Content edit

According to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the Longchen Nyingtik "includes the preliminary and main practices, the development and completion stages, and, most important, the practice of Ati Yoga, or Dzogchen. It thus constitutes a complete path to enlightenment."[8]

Sam van Schaik lists the contents of the major thematic sections of the Longchen Nyingthig as follows:[9]

  1. Revelation accounts and prophecy (3 texts)
  2. Root tantra and root initiation (3 texts)
  3. Outer guru sadhana (2 texts)
  4. Inner guru sadhana (4 texts)
  5. Longlife practices (4 texts)
  6. Dechen gyalmo, a peaceful dakini, (28 texts)
  7. Palchen Dupa, a yidam, (20 texts)
  8. Secret guru sadhana (4 texts)
  9. Very secret guru sadhana (1 texts)
  10. Wrathful lama practice (3 texts)
  11. Miscellaneous aspirational prayers (4 texts)
  12. Peaceful and wrathful deities (8 texts)
  13. Protectors (16 texts)
  14. Transference of consciousness (phowa, 2 texts)
  15. Practices on the channels and winds (tsa-lung, 6 texts)
  16. Practice of cutting attachment (Chöd, 2 texts)
  17. Great perfection (Dzogchen) treasure texts (4 texts)
  18. Preliminary practices (ngondro, 3 texts)
  19. Great perfection practice instructions (1 text)
  20. Supporting instructions for the above (6 texts)
  21. Additional miscellaneous texts (11 texts)

Sam van Schaik has translated some of the Dzogchen texts from the Longchen Nyingthig in "Approaching the Great Perfection" (2004). Tony Duff has also translated key texts such as "The Excellent Path to Omniscience" and "Sound of Dakini Laughter."

According to Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, the Vidyadhara Jigme Lingpa founded the great Longchen Nyingtik lineage based on a series of mind treasures he discovered in visions. The teachings and practices of the Longchen Nyingtik are the swiftest path to enlightenment. One of its main sadhanas, The Gathering of Vidyadharas (Rigdzen Dupa), holds for this supreme accomplishment to happen.[10]

Lineage edit

Tradition holds that the first human master of the Longchen Nyingthig lineage was Prahevajra.[11]

The teaching was originally discovered as a terma, a revealed teaching given to the 18th century Nyingma teacher Kunkhyen Jigme Lingpa. The teaching is allegedly descended from the Dharmakaya Buddha Kuntu Zangpo (Skt. Samantabhadra), passed to the Samboghakaya Buddha Dorje Sempa (Skt. Vajrasattva), and then through a series of other teachers until it reached Guru Padmasambhava, who arrived in the mid-8th century to Tibet and converted much of the populace to Buddhism.

See also edit

References edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Thondup (1999), p. xiii: "Longchen Nyingthig (the heart-essence of infinite expanse, or the ultimate truth of the universal openness) is a cycle of mystical teachings that represent the innermost meditation of Dzogpa Chenpo [Dzogchen], revealed by the great scholar and adept Jigme Lingpa (1730-1798). Jigme Lingpa discovered them as a 'mind ter' (or 'mind treasure'), teachings that were discovered from the enlightened nature of the mind."

Citations edit

  1. ^ Thondup (1999), p. 32.
  2. ^ Thondup (1999), p. 30.
  3. ^ Thondup (1999), pp. 32–33.
  4. ^ a b Thondup (1999), p. 33.
  5. ^ Thondup (1999), p. 44.
  6. ^ Thondup (1995), p. 97.
  7. ^ Thondup (1999), p. 122.
  8. ^ Khyentse (1999), p. 8.
  9. ^ van Schaik (2004), p. 40.
  10. ^ Lingpa, Patrul Rinpoche & Chemchok (2017), p. 194.
  11. ^ Thondup (1999), p. xiv.

Works cited edit

  • Khyentse, Dilgo (1999). The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel: The Practice of Guru Yoga According to the Longchen Nyingtik Tradition. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 978-1570624520.
  • Lingpa, Jigme; Patrul Rinpoche; Chemchok, Khenpo (2017). The Gathering of Vidyadharas: Text and Commentaries on the Rigdzin Düpa. Translated by Gyurme Avertin. Snow Lion. ISBN 978-1611803617.
  • Thondup, Tulku (1995). Talbott, Harold (ed.). Enlightened Journey: Buddhist Practice as Daily Life. Random House. ISBN 1-57062-021-0.
  • Thondup, Tulku (1999). Talbott, Harold (ed.). Masters of Meditation and Miracles: Lives of the Great Buddhist Masters of India and Tibet. Shambhala. ISBN 978-1570625091.
  • van Schaik (2004). Approaching the Great Perfection: Simultaneous and Gradual Methods of Dzogchen Practice in the Longchen Nyingtig. Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism.

Further reading edit

  • Gyatso, Janet (1998). Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary; a Translation and Study of Jigme Lingpa's 'Dancing Moon in the Water' and 'Ḍākki's Grand Secret-Talk'. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01110-9.
  • Klein, Anne Carolyn (2009). Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse: A Story of Transmission. Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion. ISBN 978-1-55939-283-9.

External links edit

  • Longchen Nyingtik lineage
  • Longchen Nyingtik at RangjungYesheWiki
  • Longchen Nyingtik Series at Lotsawa House
  • www.zangthal.co.uk
  • The Longchen Nyingtik Project

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Longchen Nyingthig Tibetan ཀ ང ཆ ན ས ང ཐ ག Wylie klong chen snying thig is a terma revealed scripture of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism which gives a systematic explanation of Dzogchen It was revealed by Jigme Lingpa 1730 1798 a Jigme Lingpa Contents 1 Etymology 2 History and background 3 Revelation 4 Content 5 Lineage 6 See also 7 References 7 1 Notes 7 2 Citations 7 3 Works cited 8 Further reading 9 External linksEtymology editLongchen Nyingthig may be translated as seminal heart of Longchenpa or vast expanse heart essence a reference to the central figure of Jigme Lingpa s pure visions Wylie dag snang in which the texts were revealed Nyingthig which connotes seminal essence or heart focus Thig is an etymon of thig le which is the Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit bindu the central point of the mandala Tibetan khorlo Alternate orthographies Longchen Nyingtik History and background editDzogchen teachings have been classified in three sections namely Semde mind class cycle Longde space class cycle and Mengagde direct oral instruction class cycle 1 Shri Singha divided the Mengagde into a further four cycles the outer inner esoteric and innermost esoteric cycle 2 They are teachings on the primordially pure nature or kadag Wylie ka dag The recognition of this primordially pure nature is called trekcho Wylie khregs ch od cutting through all the grasping clinging and apprehending 3 which obscures the primordially pure nature The innermost esoteric cycle of the Mengagde is focused upon the spontaneous perfection of appearances lhundrub togal Wylie lhun grub thod rgal which is known as togal the direct approach 4 There are two principal historical redactions and elucidations given the nomenclature Nyingthig namely the Vima Nyingthig brought to Tibet by Vimalamitra and the Khandro Nyingthig brought to Tibet by Padmasambhava 4 Into the mindstream of Jigme Lingpa merged the mindstream tributaries of Vimalamitra and King Trisong Detsen of whom he Jigme Lingpa was a joint emanation Tibetan tulku or embodiment Sanskrit nirmanakaya Now as was previously stated Vimalamitra brought the Vima Nyingthig to Tibet Padmasambhava who brought the Khandro Nyingthig to Tibet transmitted this to King Trisong Detsen So both the Khandro Nyingthig and the Vima Nyingthig were within the mindstream of Jigme Lingpa and were realised by him as mind treasure or mind terma Wylie dgongs gter Thondup amp Talbott state Jigme Lingpa was a reincarnation of both Vimalamitra himself and King Trisong Detsen who was a recipient of Nyingthig teachings from Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava and Vimalamitra So the Nyingthig teachings of two major lineages flowed together in Jigme Lingpa Longchen Nyingthig is the essence or embodiment of the two Nyingthig traditions Vima Nyingthig and Khandro Nyingthig 5 Revelation editThondup and Talbott state that While transmitting esoteric teachings to his realized disciples in Tibet Guru Padmasambhava concealed many teachings with the blessings of his enlightened mind stream in the nature of the intrinsic awareness of the minds of his disciples through the power of mind mandated transmission Wylie gtad rgya thereby the master and disciple became united as one in the teachings and realization Here the master has concealed the teachings and blessings the esoteric attainments as ter in the pure nature of the minds of his disciples through his enlightened power and he has made aspirations that the ter may be discovered for the sake of beings when the appropriate time comes 6 Thondup and Talbott state that when Jigme Lingpa was 28 years old In the evening of the twenty fifth day of the tenth month of the Fire Ox year of the thirteenth Rabjung cycle 1757 he went to bed with an unbearable devotion to Guru Rinpoche in his heart a stream of tears of sadness continuously wet his face because he was not in Guru Rinpoche s presence and unceasing words of prayers kept singing in his breath He remained in the depths of that meditation experience of clear luminosity Wylie od gsal gyi snang ba for a long time While being absorbed in that luminous clarity he experienced flying a long distance through the sky while riding a white lion He finally reached a circular path which he thought to be the circumambulation path of Charung Khashor now known as Bodhnath Stupa and important Buddhist monument of giant structure in Nepal 7 Content editAccording to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche the Longchen Nyingtik includes the preliminary and main practices the development and completion stages and most important the practice of Ati Yoga or Dzogchen It thus constitutes a complete path to enlightenment 8 Sam van Schaik lists the contents of the major thematic sections of the Longchen Nyingthig as follows 9 Revelation accounts and prophecy 3 texts Root tantra and root initiation 3 texts Outer guru sadhana 2 texts Inner guru sadhana 4 texts Longlife practices 4 texts Dechen gyalmo a peaceful dakini 28 texts Palchen Dupa a yidam 20 texts Secret guru sadhana 4 texts Very secret guru sadhana 1 texts Wrathful lama practice 3 texts Miscellaneous aspirational prayers 4 texts Peaceful and wrathful deities 8 texts Protectors 16 texts Transference of consciousness phowa 2 texts Practices on the channels and winds tsa lung 6 texts Practice of cutting attachment Chod 2 texts Great perfection Dzogchen treasure texts 4 texts Preliminary practices ngondro 3 texts Great perfection practice instructions 1 text Supporting instructions for the above 6 texts Additional miscellaneous texts 11 texts Sam van Schaik has translated some of the Dzogchen texts from the Longchen Nyingthig in Approaching the Great Perfection 2004 Tony Duff has also translated key texts such as The Excellent Path to Omniscience and Sound of Dakini Laughter According to Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche the Vidyadhara Jigme Lingpa founded the great Longchen Nyingtik lineage based on a series of mind treasures he discovered in visions The teachings and practices of the Longchen Nyingtik are the swiftest path to enlightenment One of its main sadhanas The Gathering of Vidyadharas Rigdzen Dupa holds for this supreme accomplishment to happen 10 Lineage editTradition holds that the first human master of the Longchen Nyingthig lineage was Prahevajra 11 The teaching was originally discovered as a terma a revealed teaching given to the 18th century Nyingma teacher Kunkhyen Jigme Lingpa The teaching is allegedly descended from the Dharmakaya Buddha Kuntu Zangpo Skt Samantabhadra passed to the Samboghakaya Buddha Dorje Sempa Skt Vajrasattva and then through a series of other teachers until it reached Guru Padmasambhava who arrived in the mid 8th century to Tibet and converted much of the populace to Buddhism See also editFive Pure Lights Ganachakra TantraReferences editNotes edit Thondup 1999 p xiii Longchen Nyingthig the heart essence of infinite expanse or the ultimate truth of the universal openness is a cycle of mystical teachings that represent the innermost meditation of Dzogpa Chenpo Dzogchen revealed by the great scholar and adept Jigme Lingpa 1730 1798 Jigme Lingpa discovered them as a mind ter or mind treasure teachings that were discovered from the enlightened nature of the mind Citations edit Thondup 1999 p 32 Thondup 1999 p 30 Thondup 1999 pp 32 33 a b Thondup 1999 p 33 Thondup 1999 p 44 Thondup 1995 p 97 Thondup 1999 p 122 Khyentse 1999 p 8 van Schaik 2004 p 40 Lingpa Patrul Rinpoche amp Chemchok 2017 p 194 Thondup 1999 p xiv Works cited edit Khyentse Dilgo 1999 The Wish Fulfilling Jewel The Practice of Guru Yoga According to the Longchen Nyingtik Tradition Shambhala Publications ISBN 978 1570624520 Lingpa Jigme Patrul Rinpoche Chemchok Khenpo 2017 The Gathering of Vidyadharas Text and Commentaries on the Rigdzin Dupa Translated by Gyurme Avertin Snow Lion ISBN 978 1611803617 Thondup Tulku 1995 Talbott Harold ed Enlightened Journey Buddhist Practice as Daily Life Random House ISBN 1 57062 021 0 Thondup Tulku 1999 Talbott Harold ed Masters of Meditation and Miracles Lives of the Great Buddhist Masters of India and Tibet Shambhala ISBN 978 1570625091 van Schaik 2004 Approaching the Great Perfection Simultaneous and Gradual Methods of Dzogchen Practice in the Longchen Nyingtig Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism Further reading editGyatso Janet 1998 Apparitions of the Self The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary a Translation and Study of Jigme Lingpa s Dancing Moon in the Water and Ḍakki s Grand Secret Talk Princeton New Jersey Princeton University Press ISBN 0 691 01110 9 Klein Anne Carolyn 2009 Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse A Story of Transmission Ithaca New York Snow Lion ISBN 978 1 55939 283 9 External links editLongchen Nyingtik lineage Longchen Nyingtik at RangjungYesheWiki Longchen Nyingtik Series at Lotsawa House www zangthal co uk The Longchen Nyingtik Project Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Longchen Nyingthig amp oldid 1191401948, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, 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