Oral transmissions of the Longchen Nyingtik, the Nyingtik Tsapö, ‘The Core Texts of the Heart Essence’

From 12-24 September, every morning, Tulku Rigdzin Pema Rinpoche will be granting the reading transmissions of

1. the entire five volumes of the Longchen Nyingtik Tsapö , and

2. a number of additional transmissions more related to the Ngöndro stage of the path (The Words of my Perfect Teacher, Guide to the Words of my Perfect Teacher) and other texts.
   

NEW: Additionally, Rabjam Rinpoche’s teachings (tri-lung) on the topics of ngöndro, kyerim, practising in retreat, and Dzogchen for ‘beginners’ will also be streamed after the lunch break. These teachings are only open to students who fulfil the requirements of part 1.
The tri-lung sessions will start after the lunch break, once the empowerments start we will end the Zoom call.

The lungs from the Shechen edition of the Nyingtik Tsapö are compiled into five volumes. The first three volumes contain the works of Jigme Lingpa and volumes 4 and 5 the works of other Longchen Nyingtik masters, such as the First Dodrupchen, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

The original catalogue of the works by Jigme Lingpa, written by Jigme Losal Özer, can be found here: An Illuminating Ornament of Brilliant Sunlight

A detailed list of all the texts, thus including volume 4 and 5, can be found here.

Teachings with Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche (tri-lung)

Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche will teach on the following texts in the form of a tri-lung

• First Dodrupchen, The Excellent Path to Omniscience, The Preliminary Practice of the Heart-Essence of the Vast Expanse from the Great Perfection (Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro) (རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཏིག་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་ངག་འདོན་ཁྲིགས་སུ་བསྡེབས་པ་རྣམ་མཁྱེན་ལམ་བཟང་)

• Jigme Lingpa, A Wondrous Ocean of Advice for the Practice of Those in Retreat in Solitude (Richö) (རི་ཆོས་ཞལ་གདམས་ངོ་མཚར་རྒྱ་མཚོ་)
  -> English translation: in The Fearless Lion’s Roar Appendix 1, and in The Collected Works of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Volume 3, translated by David Christensen, pages 229–235.

• Jigme Lingpa, Ladder to Akaniṣṭha: Instructions on the Development Stage and Deity Yoga (བསྐྱེད་རིམ་ལྷའི་ཁྲིད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པར་གཞག་པ་འོག་མིན་བགྲོད་པའི་ཐེམ་སྐས)
  -> English translation: in Deity, Mantra and Wisdom: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra, Jikme Lingpa and Getse Mahapandita Tsewang Chokdrub, translated by Dharmachakra Translation Committee. Snow Lion, (2007).

• Jigme Lingpa, Seeing Nakedly the Natural State of the Great Perfection: Necessary Instructions for Beginners (རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་གནས་ལུགས་ཅེར་མཐོང། ལས་དང་པོ་པ་ལ་འདི་མཁོ )
  -> English translation: in Approaching the Great Perfection by Sam van Schaik, pages 235–238.

SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS TO ATTEND PART 1 (lung and tri-lung)

1. You have ALREADY received the main Longchen Nyingtik empowerments (by participating in a transmission of the entire cycle, or by receiving the main empowerments over the years).

2. You commit to attending the entire oral transmissions (unless you have already received a certain number of volumes of the Nyingtik Tsapö transmission).
   

The main Longchen Nyingtik empowerments are:

• Shyitro (hundred peaceful & wrathful deities)

• Vajrasattva

• Rigdzin Düpa

• Palchen Düpa

• Takhyung Barwa

• Dukngal Rangdrol

• Tiklé Gyachen

• Yumka Dechen Gyalmo

• Sengé Dongma

• Amitabha

For Rigpa students please find the list of empowerments granted to the Rigpa Sangha here. An example of a transmission of the entire cycle of Longchen Nyingtik empowerments would be Yangthang Rinpoche’s event in Lerab Ling, 2-9 August 2012.

We have requested a number of additional transmissions more related to the Ngöndro stage of the path. We hope that Rinpoche will have the time to grant all of them:

• Patrul Rinpoche, The Words of My Perfect Teacher (Tib. Kunzang Lama’i Shyalung),

• Khenpo Ngakchung, A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher (Tib. Kunzang Lama’i Shyalung Zindri )

Three brief Ngöndro commentaries that Rigpa students study (in A Guide to the Practice of Ngöndro):

• Chökyi Drakpa, A Torch to the Path to Omniscience

• Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Illuminating the Excellent Path to Enlightenment

• Patrul Rinpoche, A Brief Guide to the Stages of Visualization (Mikrim Düpa)

And

• Jigme Lingpa, The Treasury of Precious Qualities (Yönten Dzö) - Root text
  

SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS TO ATTEND PART 2

These lungs do not require an empowerment, the only exception is The Treasury of Precious Qualities (Yönten Dzö):

• Ch 1-9 , which are available in The Treasury of Precious Qualities, Book 1 (Shambhala, revised edition 2010) do not require an empowerment.

• Ch 10 requires a Shyitro empowerment.

• Ch. 11-13 require a Dzogchen empowerment such as Tiglé Gyachen, Nyingthik Yabshyi or a similar Dzogchen empowerment.

• These last 4 chapters are available in The Treasury of Precious Qualities, Book 2 (Shambhala, revised edition 2013)

Please commit to attending entire days of these oral transmissions.

If you are only eligible for attending "Part 2: other transmissions", these lungs are scheduled to take place once the 5 volumes of the Tsapo are complete. Please keep checking this page or here to find out when they will start.

Before registering via the orange button "Get access to this event" on the left, please verify that you meet the requirements for Part 1 and Part 2. Upon registration you will find the blue Zoom button on the left.

• The schedule is subject to change during the event, please keep checking back on this page or here for updates.

• The exact list of lungs given each day is not known in advance.

• The rough plan is for Tulku Rinpoche to start to give the 5 volumes in order, then to grant the additional lungs.

• An exact list of what has been given every day will be produced at the end of the event.

• If you are only eligible for attending part 2 other transmissions, these lungs are scheduled to take place once the 5 volumes of the Tsapo are complete.

This event is offered on a donation basis, feel free to change the suggested amount in the payment field at the end of the registration process.

Any donations received will be offered to activities of Tulku Rigdzin Pema Rinpoche & Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche.

According to tradition, Buddhist teachers always give teachings, transmissions and empowerments for free and students make an offering in return as a sign of their appreciation and gratitude. Therefore you are encouraged to honour this tradition and similarly make an offering to the teacher for the transmissions you receive.

Tulku Rigdzin Pema Rinpoche is a close disciple of Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and an accomplished practitioner.

His main teachers were Rago Choktrul, Pema Kunzang Rangdrol, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Trulshik Rinpoche and Penor Rinpoche. He holds the traditions of Adzom Drukpa and Longchen Nyingtik.

Since his escape from Tibet during the early eighties, he stayed mainly with Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche at Shechen Monastery in Nepal as a close disciple and attendant.

He is an expert in making stupas, for which he completed the most important mantra recitations, and has been responsible for the completion of a large number of stupas in Asia, Europe, and the United States. It was Tulku Rigdzin Pema Rinpoche who oversaw the reconstruction of the Great Stupa of Boudhanath, after the earthquake of 2015.

In recent years, Tulku Rigdzin Pema Rinpoche has been meticulously guiding the preparation, construction and consecration of Rigpa’s five stupas and has given numerous teachings and transmissions in Rigpa centres, mostly from the Longchen Nyingtik lineage.