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**English translation: ''Kun-Zang La-May Zhal-Lung: The Oral Instruction of Kun-Zang La-Ma on the Preliminary Practices of Dzog-Ch'En Long-Ch'En Nying-Tig (Nga-Gyur Nying-Ma''), translated by Sonam T. Kazi, Diamond Lotus Pub, 1989.
**English translation: ''Kun-Zang La-May Zhal-Lung: The Oral Instruction of Kun-Zang La-Ma on the Preliminary Practices of Dzog-Ch'En Long-Ch'En Nying-Tig (Nga-Gyur Nying-Ma''), translated by Sonam T. Kazi, Diamond Lotus Pub, 1989.
**English translation: ''The Words of My Perfect Teacher'', Padmakara Translations (Yale University Press, Revised edition, 2010).  
**English translation: ''The Words of My Perfect Teacher'', Padmakara Translations (Yale University Press, Revised edition, 2010).  
*[[Patrul Rinpoche]], '''[[A Brief Guide to the Stages of Visualization]]'''
*[[Patrul Rinpoche]], '''[[A Brief Guide to the Stages of Visualization]]''' (''sngon 'gro'i dmigs rim bsdus pa'')
**English translation: {{LH|tibetan-masters/nyingma-masters/patrul-rinpoche/brief-guide-ng%C3%B6ndro-visualization|''A Brief Guide to the Stages of Visualization for the Ngöndro Practice''}}, translated by Adam Pearcey and edited by Janine Schulz.
**English translation: {{LH|tibetan-masters/nyingma-masters/patrul-rinpoche/brief-guide-ng%C3%B6ndro-visualization|''A Brief Guide to the Stages of Visualization for the Ngöndro Practice''}}, translated by Adam Pearcey and edited by Janine Schulz.
*[[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]], '''[[Illuminating the Excellent Path to Omniscience]]''' (''klong chen snying tig gi sngon 'gro'i ngag 'don rnam mkhyen lam bzang gsal byed''). This is a version of ''A Profound Concentration of Nectar'', into which the root text of the Longchen Nyingtik preliminaries has been inserted. The text also includes several prayers that were not included in Jikmé Trinlé Özer’s original version.
*[[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]], '''[[Illuminating the Excellent Path to Omniscience]]''' (''klong chen snying tig gi sngon 'gro'i ngag 'don rnam mkhyen lam bzang gsal byed''). This is a version of ''A Profound Concentration of Nectar'', into which the root text of the Longchen Nyingtik preliminaries has been inserted. The text also includes several prayers that were not included in Jikmé Trinlé Özer’s original version.

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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

  • Tulku Thondup, in The Dzogchen Innermost Essence Preliminary Practice (Dharamsala: LTWA, 1982)
  • Rigpa Translations, in A Guide to the Practice of Ngöndro (Lodeve: The Tertön Sogyal Trust, 2007). The root text was translated mostly in 1981 by Sogyal Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney.
The Excellent Path to Omniscience: The Dzogchen Preliminary Practice of Longchen Nyingtik
  • 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)
  • Anne C. Klein, Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse: A Story of Transmission (Snow Lion Publications, 2009).

Commentaries

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

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