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[[Image:DudjomShedra.JPG|frame|[[Dudjom Rinpoche]]]]'''The Alchemy of the Siddhas, naked instructions on how to take to heart and practise the 'Mountain Retreat' teachings, explained in a manner that is easy to understand''' (Tib. རི་ཆོས་བསླབ་བྱ་ཉམས་ལེན་དམར་ཁྲིད་གོ་བདེར་བརྗོད་པ་གྲུབ་པའི་བཅུད་ལེན།, [[Wyl.]] ''ri chos bslab bya nyams len dmar khrid go bder brjod pa grub pa'i bcud len'') 

Often known simply as ''[[Richö]]'' or 'Mountain Dharma', this is a famous text written by Kyabjé [[Dudjom Rinpoche]] on how to take to heart and practise the ‘Mountain Retreat’ teachings. [[Sogyal Rinpoche]] says that this text is one of the most important guides on how to do retreat and become a true ''chöpa'', or Dharma practitioner. It is to be found in Dudjom Rinpoche's Collected Works, vol. 13 (pa) pp. 443-468

==Tibetan Text==
*{{LH|bo/tibetan-masters/dudjom-rinpoche/mountain-dharma|Tibetan text: རི་ཆོས་}}
* {{TBRCW|O2DB72891|O2DB728912DB73129$W20869|རི་ཆོས་བསླབ་བྱ་ཉམས་ལེན་དམར་ཁྲིད་གོ་བདེར་བརྗོད་པ་གྲུབ་པའི་བཅུད་ལེན།}}

==Translations==
*Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche, ''Richö'', Rigpa Publications, 2004
*Ron Garry, ''Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche's Heart Advice'' (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005), 'Essential Advice for Solitary Meditation Practice', pages 43-59.
*Sangye Khandro, [http://www.berotsana.org/storage/Mountain%20Retreat_full%20page.pdf ''Advice for Mountain Retreat''], Light of Berotsana, 2014.

==Further Reading==
*Ron Garry, ''Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche's Heart Advice'' (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005), pages 27-42.

==Teachings on The Alchemy of the Siddhas==
*[[Dudjom Rinpoche]], [[Dzogchen Orgyen Chöling]], London, 8-11 May 1979
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], Hasliberg, Switzerland, 28-30 October 1988
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], [[Dzogchen Monastery]], India, 9-10 March 1996

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