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Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro

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Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro (Tib. ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་སྔོན་འགྲོ།, Wyl. klong chen snying thig sngon 'gro) — the root verses of the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro are mostly taken from the original terma of Longchen Nyingtik (‘the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse’) revealed by Jikmé Lingpa (1730-1798), and are therefore the vajra words of Guru Rinpoche himself.

This profound and poetic revelation was then arranged and expanded by Jikmé Lingpa’s direct disciple, the First Dodrupchen, Jikmé Trinlé Özer (1745-1821), into its present form.

Although we usually refer to this series of practices simply as the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro, its full title is ‘The Preliminary Practice of the Dzogchen Longchen Nyingtik: The Excellent Path to Omniscience’.[1]

 Outline
The Common or Outer Preliminaries

    Blessing the Speech
    Invoking the Lama


    Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind from Samsara


        Free and Well-Favoured Human Birth
        Impermanence
        Karma: Cause and Effect
        The Suffering of Samsara


    Invoking the Lama's Compassion to Avoid Pitfalls on the Path


The Uncommon or Inner Preliminaries


    Taking Refuge
    Generation of Bodhichitta: the Heart of the Awakened Mind
    Vajrasattva Purification
    The Trikaya Mandala Offering
    The Accumulation of the Kusulu: Chö

    Guru Yoga

        Visualization
        Seven Line Prayer
        Seven Branches of Devotional Practice
        Maturing the Siddhi
        Invoking the Blessing
        The Lineage Prayer
        Receiving the Four Empowerments
        Dissolution

    Dedication
    Special Prayer of Aspiration


Translations of the Root Text


    Cortland Dahl, in Entrance to the Great Perfection: A Guide to the Dzogchen Preliminary Practices compiled, translated, and introduced by Cortland Dahl (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2009)

    Rigpa Translations, in A Guide to the Practice of Ngöndro (Lodeve: The Tertön Sogyal Trust, 2007)

    The Excellent Path to Omniscience: The Dzogchen Preliminary Practice of Longchen Nyingtik

    Tulku Thondup, in The Dzogchen Innermost Essence Preliminary Practice (Dharamsala: LTWA, 1982)

Source

www.rigpawiki.org