Dzogchen Upadesa Teachings of Rigdzin Changchub Dorje

This wonderful 558-page book bound in hardcover with gold printed dust jacket contains, in order: the translation of the original Tibetan text of Rigdzin Changchub Dorje’s terma called Quintessential Instructions on the Main Practice (dngos gzhi i don khri yang snying bcud dril bzhugs) and the edited transcripts of three oral commentaries on the terma that Chögyal Namkhai Norbu gave: at Namgyalgar in Australia during a retreat that took place from the seventeenth to the twenty-second of April 2009; in Taiwan from the twenty-third to the twenty-seventh of October 2015; and in Barcelona from the twenty-eighth of December 2016 to the third of January 2017. The Quintessential Instructions on the Main Practice belongs to a Dzogchen Upadesha cycle of terma teachings of Rigdzin Changchub Dorje called Black Quintessence of the Supreme Heart Essence (bla med snying thig yang tig nag po) comprising of a tantra and various texts on the practice. This particular text contains essential instructions on the practice of Rushen and the two practices of Dzogchen Upadesha, Tregchöd and, in brief outline, Thögal, as well as the manner in which practitioners, depending on their capacity, attain liberation in their lifetime or in the bardo, and a description of the state which is the final result.