Dudjom Rinpoche Series

• The Mirror Clearly Showing What to Adopt and Abandon | Ethical Guidelines

In this short text, Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche explains some important points of conduct to be observed by the sangha of monastic practitioners and the sangha of vidyādhara yogins. It was written with a view to preserving aspects of tradition in danger of being lost forever.

• The Light of Primordial Wisdom: An Instruction Manual for the Primordially Pure Perfection Stage of the Powerful & Wrathful Dorje Drolö, Conqueror of Demons | Sādhanas

This direct instruction on the perfection stage (rdzogs rim) practice for the Dorje Drolö form of Guru Padmasambhava includes the preparatory state of śamatha, and the main part, which is to generate the wisdom of vipaśyanā through view, meditation and action.

• Dzogchen Aspiration Prayer | Dzogchen

Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche composed this four-line prayer of aspiration spontaneously on the occasion of his first teaching of “Hitting the Essence in Three Words” in the West, to an assembly of thirteen students in Paris, 1976.

• Summary of Hitting the Essence in Three Words | Dzogchen

These three single-sentence glosses clarify and expand upon Garab Dorje's famous 'Three Statements that Strike the Crucial Point'. Dudjom Rinpoche composed them while teaching in the West in 1976.

• A Concise Recitation of the Preliminary Practice according to the New Treasure of Dudjom | Ngöndro

The root text of the Dudjom Tersar Ngöndro

• Brief Notes on the Visualization for the Concise Recitation of the Pure Vision Preliminary Practice | Ngöndro

Brief notes written by Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche himself and incorporated into the recited text of the concise version of the Dudjom Tersar ngöndro.

• The Concise Benefits of the Festival of the Tenth Day | Guru Rinpoche Prayers

The tenth day of each lunar month of the Tibetan calendar is connected to a key event in the life of Guru Padmasambhava. In this brief text, Dudjom Rinpoche—who refers to himself here as "Padma's messenger"—explains the correlation of these events and the particular benefits that accrue from observing practice on such days.

• The Ornament of Padmasambhava’s Enlightened Vision | Guru Rinpoche Prayers

In this commentary on the famous prayer to Guru Padmasambhava popularly known as Dü Sum Sangye (referred to here as the Vajra Verses Prayer) Dudjom Rinpoche explains the outer, inner and secret significance of every line.

• The Prayer to Guru Rinpoche that Swiftly Removes Obstacles and Fulfills All Wishes | Guru Rinpoche Prayers

Dudjom Rinpoche tells us that he wrote this prayer to Guru Rinpoche "for the peace and happiness of the world, at a time when we are all afflicted both physically and mentally by all kinds of outer and inner circumstances."

• Prayer for the Long Life Dodrupchen Rinpoche | Long Life Prayers

A four-line prayer for the long life of the Fourth Dodrupchen, Jikmé Tubten Trinlé Palbar.

• Prayer for the Long Life of Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche | Long Life Prayers

A prayer for the longevity of Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche (b. 1951), who is the seventh in the line of Gar Drupchen incarnations.

• Prayer for the Long Life of Dzogchen Rinpoche | Long Life Prayers

A four-line prayer for the long life of the Seventh Dzogchen Rinpoche, Jikmé Losal Wangpo.

• Prayer for the Long Life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama | Long Life Prayers

One of several prayers for the long life of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama that Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche composed.

• A Daily 'Hand-Clapping' Practice of Siṃhamukhā | Averting Obstacles

This daily 'hand-clapping' (thal rdeb) practice of the lion-faced ḍākinī Siṃhamukhā/Siṃhavaktrā (seng gdong ma) is particularly associated with the elimination of adversity, threats and dangers.

• A Daily Practice of Bhurkuṃkūṭa | Sādhanas

This short daily sādhana of Bhurkuṃkūṭa (sme brtsegs) includes a simple visualization and mantra recitation. The practice is particularly associated with the purification of tantric commitments, or samaya.

• Prayer to the Three Great Stūpas of Kathmandu | Pilgrimage

A short prayer to the three main stūpas of the Kathmandu Valley, i.e., Svayambhūnāth (known to Tibetans as Pakpa Shingkun), Boudhanāth (known to Tibetans as Jarung Khashor) and Namo Buddha.

• The Brief Tsok Feast Offering Prayer from 'The Profound Path of the Ḍākinīs' Heart Drop' | Tsok

As Dudjom Rinpoche explains in the colophon, he revealed this practice in 1936. He had fallen sick and his disciple Trulshik Pawo Dorje (1876–1962) performed a hundred feast offerings and fulfilment practices on his behalf. Early the next morning, Dudjom Rinpoche had a dream in which a woman spoke these words; he wrote them down, and the following day his illness disappeared completely.

• The Mountain Smoke Offering Arranged for Recitation by Lhatsün Namkha Jigme, arranged by Dudjom Rinpoche | Riwo Sangchö & Lungta

As the title implies, Dudjom Rinpoche Jikdral Yeshe Dorje arranged the text of Lhatsün Namkha Jikme's Mountain Smoke Offering (ri bo bsang mchod) for regular recitation by adding verses for taking refuge, generating bodhicitta, the seven-branch practice and self-visualization at the beginning, and verses of dedication at the end.

• Divine Blue Water: A Contamination Purifying Smoke Offering by the Great Master Padmasambhava by Padmasambhava | Offering

Divine Blue Water (lha chab sngon mo) is a smoke offering (bsang) ritual that functions as a remedy against ritual pollution (grib), specifically the form known as ‘contamination’ (mnol). The text is attributed to Padmasambhava, but was not hidden as a treasure (gter ma); it was painted on the wall at Samye Monastery and it is from there that the textual lineage derives. Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche (1904–1987) edited the version published here, which appears in modern editions of the Nyingma Kama.