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རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཏིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་ཁྲིད་ཡིག་ཀུན་བཟང་བླ་མའི་ཞལ་ལུང་གི་ཟིན་བྲིས།
rdzogs pa chen po klong chen snying thig gi sngon 'gro'i khrid yig kun bzang bla ma'i zhal lung gi zin bris
The Written Record of the Oral Instructions of the Kind Guru, a Guide to the Preliminaries of the Great Perfection, the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse
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A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher (Tib. ཀུན་བཟང་བླ་མའི་ཞལ་ལུང་གི་ཟིན་བྲིས་, Kunzang Lama'i Shyalung Zindri or Zindri for short, Wyl. kun bzang bla ma'i zhal lung gi zin bris) — a text by Khenpo Ngawang Palzang that elaborates on The Words of My Perfect Teacher.

The Zindri is a priceless treasure of explanation, clarification and practical advice from the heart of the great oral lineage of Dzogchen, supporting and deepening the teachings contained in The Words of My Perfect Teacher. It was handed down by Patrul Rinpoche to his disciple Lungtok Tenpé Nyima (Nyoshul Lungtok), who then passed it on to Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, who wrote down this oral instruction. (Source Accessed Apr 21, 2025)

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Ngag dbang dpal bzang. rdzogs pa chen po klong chen snying thig gi sngon 'gro'i khrid yig kun bzang bla ma'i zhal lung gi zin bris [རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཏིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་ཁྲིད་ཡིག་ཀུན་བཟང་བླ་མའི་ཞལ་ལུང་གི་ཟིན་བྲིས།]. [The Written Record of the Oral Instructions of the Kind Guru, a Guide to the Preliminaries of the Great Perfection, the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse].


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A Guide to The Words of My Perfect Teacher
This guide provides readers with essential background information for studying and practicing with Patrul Rinpoche's Words of My Perfect Teacher—the text that has, for more than a century, served as the reliable sourcebook to the spiritual practices common to all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. By offering chapter-by-chapter commentary on this renowned work, Khenpo Pelzang provides a fresh perspective on the role of the teacher; the stages of the path; the view of the Three Jewels; Madhyamika, the basis of transcendent wisdom; and much more. (Source: Shambhala Publications)
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Notes de mémoire sur Le Chemin de la Grande Perfection
Les Notes de Mémoire sont, à l'origine, un ensemble de notes que Khenpo Ngawang Palzang (1879-1941) rédigea de mémoire après avoir reçu de son maître, Nyoshul Loungtog Tenpai Nyima, les instructions orales du guide des « Préliminaires de l'Essence du Coeur de l'Immensité » (Le Chemin de la Grande Perfection) que Patrul Rinpoché lui-même lui avait transmises.

Ces Notes sont le seul commentaire de l'ouvrage de Patrul Rinpoché que l'on connaisse à ce jour. Elles en sont, par ailleurs, le complément indispensable. De façon claire et profonde, elles fournissent au pratiquant d'utiles informations sur l'arrière-plan théorique et le fondement de la pratique de la voie bouddhiste en général, mais aussi un grand nombre de conseils pratiques sur la façon de pratiquer, pendant les séances de méditation aussi bien qu'entre les séances.

Khenpo Nwawang Palzang était un être hors du commun qui, à l'âge de vint-et-un ans, avait déjà parcouru toutes les étapes de la voie jusqu'au niveau ultime de la Grande Perfection. Communément appelé Khenpo Ngagchoung ou Khenpo Ngaga, il fut l'un des maîtres tibétains de plus remarquables de son époque, à la fois par son érudition, sa réalisation et la lignée de ses réincarnations successives. Il était, en particulier, l'une de ces manifestations suprêmes de Gyalwa Longchenpa qui apparaissent une fois par siècle. (Source: Back Cover)
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Kun bzang bla ma'i zhal lung
Patrul Rinpoche's famous contemplative guidebook to the preliminary practices of the Longchen Nyingthig he wrote based on the teachings he repeatedly received from his teacher, Jigme Gyalwai Nyugu. Kun bzang bla m a'i zhal lung. (Kunzang Lame Shelung). In Tibetan, "Words of My Perfect Teacher," a popular Buddhist text, written by the celebrated nineteenth- century Tibetan luminary Dpal sprul Rinpoche during a period of prolonged retreat at his cave hermitage above Rdzogs chen monastery in eastern Tibet. It explains the preliminary practices (sngon 'gro) for the klong chen snying thig ("Heart Essence of the Great Expanse"), a system of Rnying ma doctrine and meditation instruction stemming from the eighteenth-century treasure revealer (gter ston) 'Jigs med gling pa. The work is much loved for its direct, nontechnical approach and for its heartfelt practical advice. Dpal sprul Rin po che's language ranges from lyrical poetry to the vernacular, illustrating points of doctrine with numerous scriptural quotations, accounts from the lives of past Tibetan saints, and examples from everyday life— many of which refer to cultural practices specific to the author’s native land. While often considered a Rnying ma text, the Kun bzang bla m ai zhal lung is read widely throughout the sects of Tibetan Buddhism, a readership presaged by the author's participation in the Ris med or so-called nonsectarian movement of eastern Tibet during the nineteenth century. (Source: "Kun bzang bla ma'i zhal lung" In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 455. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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