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[[Image:LongchenRabjam.JPG|frame|'''Longchen Rabjam''']]
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'''Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation''' (Tib. ''Samten Ngalso''; [[Wyl.]] ''bsam gtan ngal gso'') — part of the [[Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease]] by [[Longchenpa]].
'''Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation''' (Tib. བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོ་, ''Samten Ngalso'', [[Wyl.]] ''bsam gtan ngal gso'') — part of the [[Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease]] by [[Longchenpa]].
*{{TBRCW|O00EGS1015846|O00EGS101584615912$W23760|རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོ་, ''rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso''}}


==Outline==
==Outline==
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Aside from the root text, there are three other texts on the same topic:
Aside from the root text, there are three other texts on the same topic:


#''A Summary called The Pundarika Garland'' (''rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i bsdus don Pundarika'i phreng ba'')
*A Summary called '''The Pundarika Garland''' ({{TBRCW|O00EGS1015846|O00EGS101584615861$W23760|རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོའི་བསྡུས་དོན་པུཎྜ་རཱི་ཀའི་ཕྲེང་བ་, ''rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i bsdus don puN+Da rI ka'i phreng ba''}})
#A Commentary called ''The Pure Chariot'' (''rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i 'grel pa Shing rta rnam par dag pa'')
*A Commentary called '''The Chariot of Surpassing Purity''' ({{TBRCW|O00EGS1015846|O00EGS101584615862$W23760|རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཤིང་རྟ་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་, ''rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i 'grel pa shing rta rnam par dag pa''}}
#A Practical Instruction called ''The Quintessential Heart Essence'' (''rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i don khrid snying po bcud bsdus'')
**English translation: ''The Chariot of Surpassing Purity'', in Longchenpa, ''Finding Rest in Meditation: Trilogy of Rest, Volume 2'' translated by the Padmakara Translation Group (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2018)
* A Practical Instruction called '''The Quintessential Heart Essence''' ({{TBRCW|O00EGS1015846|O00EGS101584615863$W23760|རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོའི་དོན་ཁྲིད་སྙིང་པོ་བཅུད་བསྡུས་, ''rdzogs pa chen po bsam gtan ngal gso'i don khrid snying po bcud bsdus''}})


==Translations and Commentaries==
==Translations and Commentaries==
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*The Dalai Lama, ''Mind in Comfort and Ease: The Vision of Enlightenment in the Great Perfection'', Wisdom, 2007  
*The Dalai Lama, ''Mind in Comfort and Ease: The Vision of Enlightenment in the Great Perfection'', Wisdom, 2007  
*H.V. Guenther, ''Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Part 2: Meditation'', Dharma Publishing, 1975
*H.V. Guenther, ''Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Part 2: Meditation'', Dharma Publishing, 1975
*Longchenpa, ''Finding Rest in Meditation: Trilogy of Rest, Volume 2'' translated by the Padmakara Translation Group (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2018)


==External Links==
==External Links==
*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/longchenpa.html A translation of chapters 1 and 2 and the Tibetan text]
* A translation of the first two chapters and the Tibetan text is available at Lotsawa House:
:{{LH|tibetan-masters/nyingma-masters/longchen-rabjam/locations-cultivating-samadhi|''Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation:'' A guide to locations for cultivating samadhi}}
:{{LH|tibetan-masters/nyingma-masters/longchen-rabjam/practitioner-meditation|''Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation:'' The practitioner of meditation}}


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[[Category:Texts]]
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[[Category:Longchenpa]]

Latest revision as of 05:09, 18 February 2022

Longchen Rabjam

Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation (Tib. བསམ་གཏན་ངལ་གསོ་, Samten Ngalso, Wyl. bsam gtan ngal gso) — part of the Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease by Longchenpa.

Outline

The root text consists of three chapters:

  1. Locations for Cultivating Samadhi
  2. The Meditator
  3. The Dharma to be Practised

Related Texts

Aside from the root text, there are three other texts on the same topic:

Translations and Commentaries

English

  • The Dalai Lama, Mind in Comfort and Ease: The Vision of Enlightenment in the Great Perfection, Wisdom, 2007
  • H.V. Guenther, Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Part 2: Meditation, Dharma Publishing, 1975
  • Longchenpa, Finding Rest in Meditation: Trilogy of Rest, Volume 2 translated by the Padmakara Translation Group (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2018)

External Links

  • A translation of the first two chapters and the Tibetan text is available at Lotsawa House:
Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation: A guide to locations for cultivating samadhi
Finding Comfort and Ease in Meditation: The practitioner of meditation