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'''Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro''' ([[Wyl.]] ''klong chen snying thig sngon 'gro'') — the root verses of the [[Longchen Nyingtik]] [[Ngöndro]] are mostly taken from the original [[terma]] of [[Longchen Nyingtik]] (‘the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse’) revealed by [[Jikmé Lingpa]] (1730-1798), and are therefore the [[vajra]] words of [[Guru Rinpoche]] himself. This profound and poetic revelation was then arranged and expanded by Jikmé Lingpa’s direct disciple, the First Dodrupchen, [[Jikmé Trinlé Özer]] (1745-1821), into its present form. Although we usually refer to this series of practices simply as the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro, its full title is ‘The Preliminary Practice of the Dzogchen Longchen Nyingtik: The Excellent Path to Omniscience’.
'''Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro''' (Tib. ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་སྔོན་འགྲོ།, [[Wyl.]] ''klong chen snying thig sngon 'gro'') — the root verses of the [[Longchen Nyingtik]] [[Ngöndro]] are mostly taken from the original [[terma]] of [[Longchen Nyingtik]] (‘the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse’) revealed by [[Jikmé Lingpa]] (1730-1798), and are therefore the [[vajra]] words of [[Guru Rinpoche]] himself. This profound and poetic revelation was then arranged and expanded by Jikmé Lingpa’s direct disciple, the First Dodrupchen, [[Jikmé Trinlé Özer]] (1745-1821), into its present form. Although we usually refer to this series of practices simply as the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro, its full title is ‘The Preliminary Practice of the Dzogchen Longchen Nyingtik: The Excellent Path to Omniscience’.<ref>༄༅། །རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཏིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་ངག་འདོན་ཁྲིགས་སུ་བསྡེབས་པ་རྣམ་མཁྱེན་ལམ་བཟང་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །, ''rdzogs pa chen po klong chen snying thig gi sngon 'gro'i ngag 'don khrigs su bsdebs pa rnam mkhyen lam bzang''</ref>
 
==Outline==
===The Common or Outer Preliminaries===
*Blessing the Speech
*Invoking the Lama
*Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind from [[Samsara]]
**Free and Well-Favoured Human Birth
**[[Impermanence]]
**[[Karma]]: Cause and Effect
**The Suffering of Samsara
*Invoking the Lama's Compassion to Avoid Pitfalls on the Path
 
===The Uncommon or Inner Preliminaries===
*[[Taking Refuge]]
*Generation of [[Bodhichitta]]: the Heart of the Awakened Mind
*[[Vajrasattva]] Purification
*The [[Mandala offering|Trikaya Mandala Offering]]
*The Accumulation of the Kusulu: [[Chö]]
*[[Guru Yoga]]
**Visualization
**[[Seven Line Prayer]]
**[[Seven branches|Seven Branches of Devotional Practice]]
**Maturing the Siddhi
**Invoking the Blessing
**The Lineage Prayer
**Receiving the [[four empowerments|Four Empowerments]]
**Dissolution
*Dedication
*Special Prayer of Aspiration


==Translations of the Root Text==
==Translations of the Root Text==
*Rigpa Translations, ''A Guide to the Practice of Ngöndro'', the Tertön Sogyal Trust, 2007.
*Cortland Dahl, in ''Entrance to the Great Perfection: A Guide to the Dzogchen Preliminary Practices'' compiled, translated, and introduced by Cortland Dahl (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2009)
*[[Tulku Thondup]], ''The Dzogchen Innermost Essence Preliminary Practice'', LTWA, 1982.
*Rigpa Translations, in ''A Guide to the Practice of Ngöndro'' (Lodeve: The Tertön Sogyal Trust, 2007)
:{{LH|tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-I/longchen-nyingtik|''The Excellent Path to Omniscience: The Dzogchen Preliminary Practice of Longchen Nyingtik''}}
*[[Tulku Thondup]], in ''The Dzogchen Innermost Essence Preliminary Practice'' (Dharamsala: LTWA, 1982)


==Commentaries==
==Commentaries==
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*[[Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche]], ''Tantric Practice in Nyingma'', trans. & ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins, co-edited by Anne Klein, Snow Lion, 1986.
*[[Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche]], ''Tantric Practice in Nyingma'', trans. & ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins, co-edited by Anne Klein, Snow Lion, 1986.
*[[Tulku Thondup]], ''The Dzogchen Innermost Essence Preliminary Practice'', LTWA, 1982.
*[[Tulku Thondup]], ''The Dzogchen Innermost Essence Preliminary Practice'', LTWA, 1982.
==External Links==
*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/ngondro.html Ngöndro Series on Lotsawa House]


==Notes==
==Notes==
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==Internal Links==
*[[Lineage Prayer from the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro Guru Yoga]]
==External Links==
*{{LH|topics/ngondro|Ngöndro Series on Lotsawa House}}
*{{LH|tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-I/longchen-nyingtik|''The Excellent Path to Omniscience: The Dzogchen Preliminary Practice of Longchen Nyingtik''}}, the root text of the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro


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Revision as of 11:17, 21 July 2016

Field of Merit from the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro

Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro (Tib. ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་སྔོན་འགྲོ།, Wyl. klong chen snying thig sngon 'gro) — the root verses of the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro are mostly taken from the original terma of Longchen Nyingtik (‘the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse’) revealed by Jikmé Lingpa (1730-1798), and are therefore the vajra words of Guru Rinpoche himself. This profound and poetic revelation was then arranged and expanded by Jikmé Lingpa’s direct disciple, the First Dodrupchen, Jikmé Trinlé Özer (1745-1821), into its present form. Although we usually refer to this series of practices simply as the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro, its full title is ‘The Preliminary Practice of the Dzogchen Longchen Nyingtik: The Excellent Path to Omniscience’.[1]

Outline

The Common or Outer Preliminaries

  • Blessing the Speech
  • Invoking the Lama
  • Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind from Samsara
    • Free and Well-Favoured Human Birth
    • Impermanence
    • Karma: Cause and Effect
    • The Suffering of Samsara
  • Invoking the Lama's Compassion to Avoid Pitfalls on the Path

The Uncommon or Inner Preliminaries

Translations of the Root Text

  • Cortland Dahl, in Entrance to the Great Perfection: A Guide to the Dzogchen Preliminary Practices compiled, translated, and introduced by Cortland Dahl (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2009)
  • Rigpa Translations, in A Guide to the Practice of Ngöndro (Lodeve: The Tertön Sogyal Trust, 2007)
The Excellent Path to Omniscience: The Dzogchen Preliminary Practice of Longchen Nyingtik
  • Tulku Thondup, in The Dzogchen Innermost Essence Preliminary Practice (Dharamsala: LTWA, 1982)

Commentaries

Major Tibetan Commentaries Translated in English

Contemporary Commentaries

  • Tulku Thondup, Enlightened Journey—Buddhist Practice as Daily Life, Boston & London, Shambhala, 1995.
  • Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche, Tantric Practice in Nyingma, trans. & ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins, co-edited by Anne Klein, Snow Lion, 1986.
  • Tulku Thondup, The Dzogchen Innermost Essence Preliminary Practice, LTWA, 1982.

Notes

  1. ༄༅། །རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཏིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་ངག་འདོན་ཁྲིགས་སུ་བསྡེབས་པ་རྣམ་མཁྱེན་ལམ་བཟང་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །, rdzogs pa chen po klong chen snying thig gi sngon 'gro'i ngag 'don khrigs su bsdebs pa rnam mkhyen lam bzang
  2. Also available in A Guide to the Practice of Ngöndro, the Tertön Sogyal Trust, 2007.
  3. ibid.
  4. ibid

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