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Precious word empowerment

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The precious word empowerment (Tib. tsik wang rinpoche; Wyl. tshig dbang rin po che) is the fourth and most important of the four empowerments. Khenpo Ngakchung writes that the goal of the precious word empowerment is to generate the spontaneously arisen innate wisdom, the absolute meaning of empowerment.[1]


The precious word empowerment:


Footnotes

  1. From Tulku Thondup, Enlightened Journey (Boston: Shambhala, 1995), page 228.

Further Reading

  • Tulku Thondup, Enlightened Journey (Boston: Shambhala, 1995), Chapter 9 'The Empowerments and Precepts of Esoteric Training' and Chapter 12 'Receiving the Four Empowerments of Ngöndro Meditation'.
  • Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, As It Is, Vol. 2 (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2000), page 207.


Source

RigpaWiki:Precious word empowerment