Khenchen Ngawang Palzang Series

Tibetan Masters Khenchen Ngawang Palzang

Vimalamitra realized the maṇḍala of the supreme state,

Longchenpa revealed the dharmakāya Samantabhadra,

And you, Ngaki Wangpo, are inseparable from them both—to you I pray:

Inspire me with your blessings so that my own mind and your wisdom-mind merge as one!

Texts by and about the great Dzogchen master Khenchen Ngawang Palzang (ngag dbang dpal bzang, 1879–1941), also known as Khenpo Ngakchung:

Advice

Counsel of a Degenerate Dharma Pretender

In these verses Khenchen Ngawang Palzang offers a lesson in humility as he expresses dismay at his plight and issues a heartfelt plea for the guru's guidance.

Advice

Counsel to Chöying Wangmo

These words of advice, written for a female disciple, cover every aspect of the path, up to and including the Great Perfection. The text is included in the 53-volume Ḍākinī Treasury anthology.

Advice Ḍākinī Treasury

Light-Hearted Advice

Simple advice on the cause and effect of actions, the benefits of exchanging happiness for suffering, and the necessity of reciting the Seven-Line Prayer and Vajra Guru mantra.

Advice

Buddhist Philosophy

Dependent Arising

This brief text draws on the oral tradition of Patrul Rinpoche to explain three categories of dependent arising found in Longchen Rabjam's Great Chariot: 1) the dependent arising of the fundamental character (gshis) or ground (gzhi) of reality, 2) the dependent arising of saṃsāra, and 3) the dependent arising of nirvāṇa.

Dependent Origination Notes

Seeds of the Four Philosophical Schools

In this brief text, the celebrated Dzogchen scholar and adept Khenpo Ngawang Palzang summarizes the four main Indian Buddhist tenet systems traditions (according to Tibetan doxographers): 1) Vaibhāṣika, 2) Sautrāntika, 3) Cittamātra (Mind Only) and 4) Mādhyamika (Middle Way), which is further divided into Svātantrika and Prāsaṅgika.

Tenets Two Truths

Calling the Guru from Afar

Gyang Lu: A Song of Calling from Afar

Khenpo Ngawang Palzang adapted this devotional prayer to Longchen Rabjam from a famous song addressed to the Karmapa written by the Fifth Shamarpa, Könchok Yenlak (1525–1583).

Calling the Guru from Afar

Dzogchen

Advice in a Single Statement (from Khenpo Ngawang Palzang)

by Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje

Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche recalls the advice of Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, who managed to encapsulated the Dzogchen practice of Trekchö (khregs chod) in a single pithy instruction.

Advice Dzogchen

Pointing-Out Instruction Given by Gyalwa Longchenpa in a Pure Vision

While Khenpo Ngawang Palzang was accumulating the maṇḍala offering as part of the Longchen Nyingtik preliminary practices, he received this pointing-out instruction from Longchenpa in a pure vision.

Dzogchen

The Five Wisdoms

by Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje

Definitions of the five wisdoms (ye shes lnga), i.e., the wisdom of dharmadhātu, mirror-like wisdom, wisdom of equality, wisdom of discernment and all-accomplishing wisdom, according to the oral tradition of Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, aka Khenpo Ngakchung.

Advice Dzogchen Notes

Guru Rinpoche Prayers

Prayer to Pema Tötreng Tsal

A four-line prayer to Guru Padmasambhava requesting the pacification of obstacles and the bestowal of attainments.

Guru Rinpoche Prayers Guru Padmasambhava

Prayers

Brief Succession of Lives Prayer

A three-verse prayer to the great Khenpo Ngawang Palzang—here referred to as Dorje Zijitsal—listing some of his previous incarnations and invoking his blessings.

Prayers

Prayer for this Life, the Next and the Bardos

A four-verse prayer to attain realization and enlightenment either in the present lifetime or during the intermediate states of dying, dharmatā or becoming.

Prayers Dying & the Bardos

Prayer to Khenpo Ngawang Palzang

by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

A short, two-verse supplication to the famed Dzogchen master Khenchen Ngawang Palzang (1879–1941) alias Khenpo Ngakchung, from whom Jamyang Khyentse received teachings.

Prayers

Songs

A Song of Sadness About Others

Verses expressing sorrow at the nature of saṃsāra from an "old master of fictions" who recognizes the illusoriness of appearances.

Songs and Poems

Primordial Purity Free from Elaborations: A Song of Experience

This undated song was composed to console fellow disciples after the passing of their Dzogchen teacher, most likely Nyoshul Lungtok (1829–1901/2) but possibly Katok Situ Chökyi Gyatso (1880–1925), the Second Pema Norbu Rinpoche (1887–1932), or some other figure.

Songs and Poems

Tārā

Brief Homage to the Twenty-One Tārās

A short prayer invoking and praising Tārā in her twenty-one emanations and calling upon her to dispel obstacles and assist progress along the path to ultimate realization.

Tārā

Khenchen Ngawang Palzang Series

Advice

Buddhist Philosophy

Calling the Guru from Afar

Dzogchen

Guru Rinpoche Prayers

Prayers

Songs

Tārā

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