Buddhahood in This Life: The Great Commentary by Vimalamitra

by Malcolm Smith (Translator), Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche (Foreword by)

Overview

Discover a profound text that has influenced Tibetan teachers for generations. Buddhahood in This Life is a complete translation of the earliest Tibetan commentary on the Dzogchen secret instructions.

Available for the first time in English, Buddhahood in This Life presents the Great Commentary of Vimalamitra—one of the earliest and most influential texts in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It explores the theory and practice of the Great Perfection tradition in detail, shows how Dzogchen meditation relates to the entirety of the Buddhist path, and outlines how we can understand buddhahood—and even achieve it in our lifetime.

This essential text includes topics such as:

·      How delusion arises 
·      The pathway of pristine consciousness 
·      How buddhahood is present in the body
·      and more.

Translator Malcolm Smith includes an overview, analysis and clarification for all topics. Buddhahood in This Life covers fine details of Dzogchen meditation, including profound “secret instructions” rarely discussed in most meditation manuals. This text is essential for any serious student of the Great Perfection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614293668
Publisher:	Wisdom Publications MA
Publication date:	12/06/2016
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	839,687
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Acarya Malcolm Smith met the Dharma in 1989. His principle gurus are His Holiness the Sakya Trichen, the late Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, and the late Kunzang Dechen Lingpa. He is a veteran of a traditional three-year solitary Tibetan Buddhist retreat. Malcolm was awarded the acarya degree by the Sakya Institute for Buddhist in 2004 and graduated in 2009 from Shang Shung Institute’s School of Tibetan Medicine

Table of Contents

Foreword Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche vii

Introduction 1

Prologue 35

Section 1 The Explanation for Those Inclined toward the Elaborate 37

Section 2 The Explanation for Those Inclined toward the Unelaborate 51

Topic 1 The Basis 55

Topic 2 How Delusion Arises 75

Topic 3 How the Basis Is Present in Sentient Beings 83

Topic 4 The Location of Pristine Consciousness in the Body 95

Topic 5 The Pathway of Pristine Consciousness 101

Topic 6 The Doorway of Pristine Consciousness 111

Topic 7 The Field 115

Topic 8 The Method of Practice 119

Topic 9 The Authoritative Signs 179

Topic 10 The Bardo 181

Topic 11 The Great Stage of Liberation 205

Table of Tibetan Equivalents 221

Bibliography 229

Index 235

About the Translator 245

Editorial Reviews

I rejoice and praise Acarya Malcolm Smith’s direct translation from Tibetan into English the Aural Lineage of Vimalamitra from the cycle of the Pellucid Transcendent State of the Great Perfection. Since it is certainly of great benefit to those faithful practitioners of Dharma around the world, I sincerely wish that once they have realized the secret of the mind in dependence on all of the book’s instruction which appear through the intimate instructions of the guru, they will be able to accomplish liberation into the body of light in one life time.

Tulku Dagpa Rinpoche

An inspired translation of one of the classics of the Great Perfection, unveiling the extraordinary tradition of the 8th century pandit Vimalamitra. This book introduces the reader to the secret visionary instructions of Thogal practice, the core of Dzogchen itself. Extensively based on the corpus of the Seventeen Tantras, the text reveals the entire Path of the Great Perfection in a fluid and inspiring style which carefully follows the original.

Jean-Luc Achard