Dzokchen: A Commentary on Dudjom Rinpoch?'s Illumination of Primordial Wisdom by Wallace, B. Alan

Dzokchen: A Commentary on Dudjom Rinpoch?'s Illumination of Primordial Wisdom

Pith Instructions for Realizing the Great Perfection, from One of the Greatest Tibetan Yogis of the Twentieth...
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Dzokchen: A Commentary on Dudjom Rinpoch?'s Illumination of Primordial Wisdom by Wallace, B. Alan

Dzokchen: A Commentary on Dudjom Rinpoch?'s Illumination of Primordial Wisdom

$56.50

Dzokchen: A Commentary on Dudjom Rinpoch?'s Illumination of Primordial Wisdom

$56.50
Author: B. Alan Wallace
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pith Instructions for Realizing the Great Perfection, from One of the Greatest Tibetan Yogis of the Twentieth Century.

In the concise yet comprehensive practice manual entitled The Illumination of Primordial Consciousness, the great twentieth-century Tibetan Nyingma master Dudjom Rinpoche lays out a sequential path to spiritual freedom according to the teachings of the Great Perfection (Dzokchen): First, we refine our awareness by training in meditative quiescence (shamatha) and then proceed to the cultivation of contemplative insight (vipashyana), by which our mind's basic nature of luminosity and emptiness is revealed. Then, having recognized that the ordinary, deluded mind is actually without any intrinsic essence, we are primed to cut through this conditioned mind into unborn, timeless pristine awareness, which has never been contaminated by mental afflictions or other obscurations. Finally, we realize that our own awareness has never been other than the dharmakaya, the mind of a buddha, and perfect enlightenment is realized spontaneously and effortlessly.

In this book, beloved teacher and renowned scholar Lama B. Alan Wallace shares insights gained over years of study, providing a line-by-line explanation interspersed with background teachings from revered Dzokchen scriptures written by Padmasambhava, Dudjom Lingpa, and others. Also included are a set of fifteen guided meditations given by Lama Alan, along with links to audio tracks of Lama Alan giving the instructions himself. Through the practices he describes, the mystery of the mind--its origin and what happens to it at death-is thus illuminated through one's own meditative experience.

Author: B. Alan Wallace
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 11/19/2024
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781614299165

About the Author
B. Alan Wallace is president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. He trained for many years as a monk in Buddhist monasteries in India and Switzerland. He has taught Buddhist theory and practice in Europe and America since 1976 and has served as interpreter for numerous Tibetan scholars and contemplatives, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama. After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he studied physics and the philosophy of science, he earned his MA and PhD in religious studies at Stanford University. He has edited, translated, authored, and contributed to more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language, and culture, and the interface between science and religion.

Alan is also the founder of the Center for Contemplative Research (CCR), which has retreat center locations in Crestone, Colorado, and Castellina Marittima, Italy as well as a center in New Zealand slated to open soon. The CCR is dedicated to researching the role and methods of the ancient contemplative practices of shamatha and vipashyana, and their involvement in mental health and wellbeing, as well as their role in fathoming the nature and origins of human consciousness.

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