The Preliminaries of the Path of Ati

The Preliminaries of the Path of Ati (A ti lam gyi sngon ’gro) is a special Vajrasattva purification belonging to the same genre of preliminary Longsal teachings as The Crucial Preliminaries of the Path of Ati, and it is of particular importance as in its central part it focuses on the principle of the three dimensions, or tal (dal), of Guru Vajrasattva and elucidates the way to access them. The detailed commentary is followed by a dream in which Nyagse Gyurmed Gyaltsen, son of Changchub Dorje and an important teacher of the Author, reveals a particular way to apply the Purification of the Six Lokas combined with the visualization of Vajrasattva.
This book continues the Longsal Commentaries series, which aside from the histories and root texts includes the autocommentaries written by the Author himself, occasionally supplemented with additional material to gather all information concerning a specific teaching in a single volume.