The Bountiful Cow of Accomplishments: Directives for the Two Phases of the Profound Path of the Khandro Thugthig. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.The Bountiful Cow of Accomplishments: Directives for the Two Phases of the Profound Path of the Khandro Thugthig

The text presented here in Tibetan with English translation is the Bountiful Cow of Accomplishments and provides directives for the two phases of the Khandro Thugthig. It covers the entirety of the Vajrayana path, from the generation phase, through the completion phase to the Great Completeness. The Khandro Thugthig is an important cycle of teachings and practices revealed by Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-1987) as a spiritual treasure. Among the three roots of tantric practice, it specially relates to the sky-farer. The directives translated here are most closely associated with Yeshe Tsogyal, the Tibetan princess who became the consort of the great master Padmasambhava and assisted him when in the eighth century he introduced tantric Buddhism to Tibet. But Yeshe Tsogyal is more than a historical figure, for she is a wisdom sky-farer who inspires yogins to realize the ultimate nature of mind. The instructions translated here are both rare and profound. Those sincerely interested in these teachings and who wish to put them into practice may rejoice that such profound keys have been made available to them. For those having a karmic connection with this tradition and this lineage, texts such as these can be a catalyst for spiritual liberation. This text is intended for those who have received the transmission from a qualified master.

Dudjom Rinpoche (Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje, 1904-1987) was a pre-eminent meditation master, scholar and mystic of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Not only did he reveal numerous spiritual treasures of his own, but he also edited and revised the works of many of the great luminaries of the tradition he inherited. As an accomplished poet as well as a visionary sage, his writings have had a profound influence on the lives of thousands of Buddhist practitioners in the Himalayas and across the world, and are held to have a special relevance for our time.

Lopon P. Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche is a senior lama and scholar of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. A disciple of the late Dudjom Rinpoche, he is based principally in Sarnath, where he was lecturer at the CIHTS for fifteen years. He is the spiritual inspiration behind Ogyan Chokhor Ling, a foundation for the preservation and dissemination of the Dudjom Tersar Lineage, and the Founder and Chief Editor of Khye’u-chung Lotsāpa Translations. He is currently working on a Tshangs-lha-Tibetan dictionary, with the aim of recording and preserving the rich vocabulary of the Tshangs-lha language, which is now in danger of extinction.

Dylan Esler is a scholar and translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts. He holds an MA in Buddhist Studies from SOAS, University of London, and has studied with several Tibetan teachers, mainly Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche and Lopon P. Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche. In particular, he spent several years in Sarnath, translating and studying various Nyingma texts under the latter’s direction. He is currently a doctoral research scholar at the Institut Orientaliste of the Université Catholique de Louvain. He is working on an integral translation and study of an important tenth-century Tibetan text on the subject of meditation. His research interest focuses on early Nyingma expositions of Dzogchen and Tantra.

Khye’u-chung Lotsāpa Translations aims to produce English translations integrated with editions of Tibetan texts belonging to the Nyingma tradition and Dudjom Tersar (bDud-’joms gter-gsar) lineage. It was named by Lopon P. Ogyan Tanzin Rinpoche after Khye’u-chung Lotsāpa, who features in the accounts of the early Buddhist teaching in Tibet, as one of Padmasambhava’s principal twenty-five disciples. As his name (meaning “the boy translator”) indicates, he was something of a prodigy. Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje was considered his emanation. It was to Khye’u-chung Lotsāpa that Padmasambhava entrusted the teachings which were later to be revealed as the Dudjom Tersar corpus by Dudjom Lingpa (1835-1903) and Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje (1904-1987).