Buddhahood without Meditation

Translated by B. Alan Wallace
Published by Wisdom Publications
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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The revelations of Düdjom Lingpa, a highly influential mystic of 19th century Tibet, translated by B. Alan Wallace. 

The practice of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, is the pinnacle of the nine vehicles of practice taught in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. The highly influential mystic Düdjom Lingpa (1835–1904) and his disciple Sera Khandro (1892–1940), the most prolific female writer in Tibetan history, here illuminate the methods to discover our own primordial purity and abide in uncontrived awareness.

Buddhahood Without Meditation: This is Düdjom Lingpa’s most widely taught visionary text. In it wisdom beings and historical figures in the Great Perfection lineage emphasize the view of cutting through (trekchö) to the original purity of pristine awareness via the four special samayas, or pledges, of the Great Perfection: nonexistence, oneness, uniform pervasiveness, and spontaneous actualization. At each stage of his spiritual progress, Düdjom Lingpa’s doubts are dispelled and his realizations enhanced by pithy advice. 

The Fine Path to Liberation: Sera Khandro establishes the necessary motivation and conduct for receiving teachings such as Buddhahood Without Meditation. This sublime Dharma is to be seen in the context of the five perfections of the sambhogakaya: the teacher, place, time, disciples, and Dharma are fully perfected and must not be reified as ordinary. 

Garland for the Delight of the Fortunate: Sera Khandro fills in the gaps of Buddhahood Without Meditation, explaining the metaphors, and spelling out the implications of the root text’s highly condensed verses. This is an essential key for unlocking Düdjom Lingpa’s profound wisdom.

About the Authors

Dudjom Lingpa (1835–1904) was a Tibetan visionary, meditation master, and treasure revealer (tertön) born in the Golok region of northeastern Tibet. Though he received no formal monastic education, he experienced visionary encounters with enlightened beings from early childhood and went on to reveal three cycles of pure-vision teachings on the Great Perfection as part of his twenty-one volumes of collected works. Dudjom Lingpa taught for decades as an itinerant, unaffiliated master before his death in 1904, after which he was recognized as having emanated, most notably, through His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoché (1904–87). His teachings continue to be transmitted today through the Dudjom Tersar lineage.

Sera Khandro (Dechen Dewé Dorjé, 1892–1940) was a Tibetan treasure revealer, teacher, and author who overcame severe hardship to become one of the foremost women teachers in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. After years of trial, she along with her root lama, Drime Ozer, Dudjom Lingpa's fifth son, realized the culmination of the Dzokchen path and revealed numerous treasures. After his death, she spent the rest of her life traveling and teaching throughout eastern Tibet, transmitting the treasures of Düdjom Lingpa and Drimé Ozer as well as her own revelations to many of the leading reincarnate lamas of her time.

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  • Publisher: Wisdom Publications (January 17, 2017)
  • Length: 368 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781614293460

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