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The '''Nang Jang''' (སྣང་སབྱང་ snang sbyang) is a collection of the most secret instructions [[Dudjom Lingpa]] received through a series of visions of various enlightened beings, including [[Vajradhara]], [[Vajrayogini]], [[Ekadzati]], [[Shri Singha]], [[Longchen Rabjam]], [[Saraha]], and others.  
The '''Nang Jang''' (Tib. སྣང་སབྱང་, [[Wyl.]] ''snang sbyang''; Eng. ''purifying appearances'') is a collection of the most secret instructions [[Dudjom Lingpa]] received through a series of visions of various enlightened beings, including [[Vajradhara]], [[Vajrayogini]], [[Ekadzati]], [[Shri Singha]], [[Longchen Rabjam]], [[Saraha]], and others.  


These instructions point out the view of [[Dzogchen]]. This text focuses primary on [[Trekchö]], and is of central importance in the [[Dudjom Tersar]] tradition.
These instructions point out the view of [[Dzogchen]]. This text focuses primary on [[Trekchö]], and is of central importance in the [[Dudjom Tersar]] tradition.


According to [[Dudjom Lingpa]], the Nang Jang is "a direct transmission of Dudjom Lingpa's Dzogchen approach, so powerful that even hearing it read aloud ensures that the listener will eventually escape the suffering of [[samsara]]."
The Nang Jang is "a direct transmission of Dudjom Lingpa's Dzogchen approach, so powerful that even hearing it read aloud ensures that the listener will eventually escape the suffering of [[samsara]]."<ref> Foreword to Dudjom Lingpa, ''Buddhahood without Meditation'', translated by Richard Barron (Junction City: Padma Publishing, 1994, revised edition 2002).</ref>


According to [[Dudjom Rinpoche]], "The Nang Jang was prepared as an inexhaustible treasure trove of the gift of the [[Buddha]]'s teachings, the relics of the [[dharmakaya]]."
According to [[Dudjom Rinpoche]], "The Nang Jang was prepared as an inexhaustible treasure trove of the gift of the [[Buddha]]'s teachings, the relics of the [[dharmakaya]]."<ref> Düdjom Rinpoche, in the Afterword to Dudjom Lingpa, ''Buddhahood without Meditation,'' ibid. </ref>
 
==Root Text==
*'''Buddhahood Without Meditation: Advice for Revealing Your Own Face as the Nature of Reality, the Great Perfection''' (Tib. {{TBRC|O1PD89898%7CO1PD898988LS46255$W28732|རང་བཞིན་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་རང་ཞལ་མངོན་དུ་བྱེད་པའི་གདམས་པ་མ་བསྒོམ་སངས་རྒྱས་}}, Wyl. ''rang bzhin rdzogs pa chen po’i rang zhal mngon du byed pa’i gdams pa ma bsgom sangs rgyas'')
**English translation: Dudjom Lingpa, ''Buddhahood without Meditation'', translated by [[Richard Barron]] (Junction City: Padma Publishing, 1994, revised edition 2002)
**English translation: Dudjom Lingpa, ''Buddhahood Without Meditation'' in ''Dudjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection'' Book 2,  B. Alan Wallace (translator), (Wisdom Publications, 2016).


The text has become known in Tibetan as Nang Byang (snang sbyang - purifying appearances), but the full Tibetan title is རང་བཞིན་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་རང་ཞལ་མངོན་དུ་བྱེད་པའི་གདམས་པ་མ་བསྒོམ་སངས་རྒྱས་ (rang bzhin rdzogs pa chen po’i rang zhal mngon du byed pa’i gdams pa ma bsgom sangs rgyas). In English, ''Buddhahood Without Meditation: Advice for Revealing Your Own Face as the Nature of Reality, the Great Perfection.
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==Translations==
*''Buddhahood without Meditation'', by Dudjom Lingpa, tr. by Richard Barron, Padma Publishing, 2002
*''Buddhahood Without Meditation'', (Dudjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Per Book 2, Dudjom Lingpa, B. Alan Wallace (translator). Wisdom Publications. This edition contains the root text of Düdjom Lingpa along with the commentary, ''Garland for the Delight of the Fortunate,'' by Sera Khandro, as well as her presentation of the preliminary practices, titled ''The Fine Path to Liberation.
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==Commentaries==
==Commentaries==
*''Refining Our Perception of Reality'', [[Sera Khandro]]'s Commentary on Dudjom Lingpa's Account of His Visionary Journey, translated by Ngawang Zangpo (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2014) [http://www.shambhala.com/authors/g-n/sera-khandro/refining-our-perception-of-reality.html Description at Shambhala.com]
*[[Sera Khandro]], ''Garland for the Delight of the Fortunate''. (Tib. {{TBRC|O1PD89898%7CO1PD898988LS46419$W28732|རང་བཞིན་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མ་བསྒོམ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཟིན་བྲིས་དཔལ་ལྡན་བླ་མའི་ཞལ་རྒྱུན་ནག་འགྲོས་སུ་བཀོད་པ་ཚིག་དོན་རབ་གསལ་སྐལ་ལྡན་དགྱེས་པའི་མགུལ་རྒྱན}}, Wyl. ''rang bzhin rdzogs pa chen po ma bsgom sangs rgyas kyi zin bris dpal ldan bla ma'i zhal rgyun nag 'gros su bkod pa tshig don rab gsal skal ldan dgyes pa'i mgul rgyan'')
 
**English translation: ''Garland for the Delight of the Fortunate,'' by Sera Khandro in ''Dudjom Lingpa's Visions of the Great Perfection'' Book 2,  B. Alan Wallace (translator), (Wisdom Publications, 2016). The book also contains her presentation of the preliminary practices, entitled ''The Fine Path to Liberation''.
==Tibet Source Texts==
**English translation: ''Refining Our Perception of Reality, [[Sera Khandro]]'s commentary on Dudjom Lingpa's Account of His Visionary Journey'', translated by Ngawang Zangpo (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2014)
* root text [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=O1PD89898%7CO1PD898988LS46255$W28732]
* Sera Khandro’s commentary [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=O1PD89898%7CO1PD898988LS46419$W28732]


==Notes==
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Nang Jang

The Nang Jang (Tib. སྣང་སབྱང་, Wyl. snang sbyang; Eng. purifying appearances) is a collection of the most secret instructions Dudjom Lingpa received through a series of visions of various enlightened beings, including Vajradhara, Vajrayogini, Ekadzati, Shri Singha, Longchen Rabjam, Saraha, and others.

These instructions point out the view of Dzogchen. This text focuses primary on Trekchö, and is of central importance in the Dudjom Tersar tradition.

The Nang Jang is "a direct transmission of Dudjom Lingpa's Dzogchen approach, so powerful that even hearing it read aloud ensures that the listener will eventually escape the suffering of samsara."[1]

According to Dudjom Rinpoche, "The Nang Jang was prepared as an inexhaustible treasure trove of the gift of the Buddha's teachings, the relics of the dharmakaya."[2]

Root Text

Commentaries

Notes

  1. Foreword to Dudjom Lingpa, Buddhahood without Meditation, translated by Richard Barron (Junction City: Padma Publishing, 1994, revised edition 2002).
  2. Düdjom Rinpoche, in the Afterword to Dudjom Lingpa, Buddhahood without Meditation, ibid.