Sacred Text
Words of My Perfect Teacher
ཀུན་བཟང་བལ་མའི་ཞལ་ལུང་།
Patrul Rinpoche
The definitive guide to the preliminary practices of the Nyingma tradition. From the four thoughts that turn the mind to the inner practices of Vajrayana, Patrul Rinpoche leads the student through the complete path with warmth, humor, and unflinching clarity.
14 chapters3 parts48k wordsNyingma
Part 1
The Ordinary or Outer Preliminaries
1
The Difficulty of Finding the Freedoms and Advantages
3,540 wordsདལ་འབྱོར་རྙེད་པར་དཀའ་བ
precious human birtheight freedomsten advantageslistening to teachings+4 more
2
The Impermanence of Life
3,269 wordsམི་རྟག་པ་སྒོམ་པ
impermanencedeath and dyingordinary preliminariesngondro+4 more
3
The Defects of Samsara
3,805 wordsའཁོར་བའི་ཉེས་དམིགས
samsarasufferingsix realmshell realms+12 more
4
Actions: The Principle of Cause and Effect
4,148 wordsལས་རྒྱུ་འབྲས
karmacause-and-effectten-negative-actionsten-positive-actions+11 more
5
The Benefits of Liberation
2,414 wordsཐར་པའི་ཕན་ཡོན
liberationnirvanathree vehiclesshravakas+8 more
6
How to Follow a Spiritual Teacher
3,600 wordsབཤེས་གཉེན་བསྟེན་ཚུལ
spiritual teacherguru devotionexamining the teacherstudent-teacher relationship+8 more
Part 2
The Extraordinary or Inner Preliminaries
7
Taking Refuge
3,537 wordsསྐྱབས་འགྲོ
refugethree jewelsfaithbodhicitta+7 more
8
Arousing Bodhicitta
4,152 wordsབྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད
bodhicittafour boundless qualitiesimpartialityloving-kindness+16 more
9
Meditation and Recitation of Vajrasattva
3,241 wordsརྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྒོམ་བཟླས
purificationconfessionfour powersVajrasattva+7 more
10
Mandala Offering
4,633 wordsམཎྜལ་འབུལ་བ
two accumulationsmerit and wisdommandala offeringaccomplishment mandala+14 more
11
Guru Yoga
4,215 wordsབླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར
guru-yogadevotionfield-of-meritseven-branch-offering+7 more
Part 3
The Swift Path of Transference
12
Transference of Consciousness
2,622 wordsའཕོ་བ
phowatransference of consciousnessdeath and dyingAmitabha+6 more
13
The Bardos
2,876 wordsབར་དོ
bardodeath-and-dyingbardo-of-this-lifebardo-of-dying+8 more
14
Conclusion
2,327 wordsམཇུག་བསྡུ་བ
putting-teachings-into-practicesummary-of-the-pathdedication-of-merithumility-of-the-teacher+4 more