Choying Tobden Dorje

The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, a multivolume masterwork by the eighteenth-century tantric master Choying Tobden Dorje, traces the path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end. Books 15 to 17- The Essential Tantras of Mahayoga concerns the first of the three classes of highest, or inner, tantras. It presents the entire text of the Guhyagarbha Tantra, in Tibetan and English, together with one of its most important commentaries, Dispelling the Darkness of the Ten Directions, by the outstanding fourteenth-century master Longchen Rabjam. In addition, it presents the author's rewriting of Candragomin's inspirational Extensive Commentary on the Sublime Litany of the Names of Manjusri, which correlates diverse aspects of Manjusri to the five pristine cognitions.
This product (Books 15 to 17) will be published as two volumes in a slipcase. Volume 2… (mer)

The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, a multivolume masterwork by the eighteenth-century tantric master Choying Tobden Dorje, traces the path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end. Books 15 to 17- The Essential Tantras of Mahayoga concerns the first of the three classes of highest, or inner, tantras. It presents the entire text of the Guhyagarbha Tantra, in Tibetan and English, together with one of its most important commentaries, Dispelling the Darkness of the Ten Directions, by the outstanding fourteenth-century master Longchen Rabjam. In addition, it presents the author's rewriting of Candragomin's inspirational Extensive Commentary on the Sublime Litany of the Names of Manjusri, which correlates diverse aspects of Manjusri to the five pristine cognitions.
This product (Books 15 to 17) will be published as two volumes in a slipcase. Volume 1… (mer)

From the main practice manual studied by the lay yogi-practitioner lineages of Tibet, now in English for the first time, this volume presents the foundational stages of the Buddhist path according to the Nyingma, or Ancient, tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

Choying Tobden DorjU (1787-1848), a Buddhist yogi of far-eastern Tibet, composed a multivolume masterwork that traces the path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end and that is still cherished as a main source of instruction by the Ngakpa, or non-monastic practice lineages. This first volume--one of six--offers a comprehensive, in-depth view of the foundations of the Buddhist path. Written by a lay practitioner for laypeople, it is intended to be accessible, informative, and above all, practical.… (mer)

The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, a multivolume masterwork by the eighteenth-century tantric master Choying Tobden Dorje, traces the path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end. Book 13 concerns the philosophical systems of India and Tibet and their historical lines of transmission. It describes the views held by (1) the established non-Buddhist Indian schools, (2) the Vaibhashika, Sautrantika, Cittamatra, and Madhyamaka systems, which exemplify the "causal" approach of the sutras, and (3) the inner and outer classes of the "fruitional" approach of the tantras, with the greatest attention paid to the three classes of Atiyoga, the Great Perfection. It concludes with a description of the lines of transmission of the philosophical systems within Tibet, and with an example of the rich Tibetan commentarial tradition, showing how the techniques of consequential reasoning are applied to the first chapter of Vasubandhu's Treasury of Phenomenology.… (mer)