Yukhok Chöying Rangdrol Series

Tibetan Masters Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol

Embodiment of the three lineages, three roots, and all sources of refuge,

Chöying Rangdrol, in your kindness you are without equal.

Hold us with your compassion in this life, the next and the bardo state,

And grant your blessings so that we embark upon the path to liberation!

Texts by Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol (g.yu khog bya bral ba chos dbyings rang grol, 1872–1952), including extracts from his Ngöndro Compendium, a commentary on the Longchen Nyingtik preliminary practices:

Advice

Advice to Damngak Gyatso of Do

In this brief text Yukhok Chatralwa explains the common outer and uncommon inner preliminary practices in very simple terms.

Ngöndro Advice 2 Feb 2013

From the Oral Tradition of the Lama of Nyarong

Yukhok Chatralwa records the pithy advice of the Nyarong Lama, i.e., Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa, on the subject of how to remain in solitary retreat.

Retreat & Solitude Advice Dzogchen 10 Jan 2013

The Second Buddha: Advice for Yönten Gyatso

Every line of verse in the original Tibetan version of this advice has only four syllables—a device the translator has attempted to reproduce in the English.

Advice 9 Dec 2024

Dzogchen

Abandoning the Ninefold Activities of Body, Speech, and Mind

Advice on abandoning the outer, inner and secret forms of physical, vocal and mental activity.

Dzogchen 20 Jan 2025

Brief Explanation of Clarification and Transcendental Resolution from the Oral Tradition of Nyala Sogyal

This brief explanation of the important Dzogchen notions of clarification (shan 'byed) and transcendental resolution (la blza ba) was composed by Tertön Sogyal and recorded in the collected writings of Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol.

Dzogchen Notes Restricted 2 Nov 2019

Commentary on Vajra Verses on the Natural State

An explanation of The Vajra Verses on the Natural State, a revelation of Jigme Lingpa, which describes the pure awareness that is the natural state of the mind and how all the qualities of the path and fruition are complete within it.

Dzogchen Longchen Nyingtik Restricted 25 Sep 2015

How Liberation and Delusion Develop Out of the Clear Light of the Ground, etc.

In these brief notes, Chöying Rangdrol explains what is meant by the 'youthful vase body', and outlines how liberation occurs in the intermediate state (bardo), and how delusion develops should we fail to recognise the nature of bardo appearances.

Dzogchen Dying & the Bardos Notes 29 Nov 2016

How to Practice the Path of the Great Perfection

In these notes on the analytical preliminaries to Dzogchen practice, Yukhok Chatralwa calls for more philosophical rigour in line with the Middle Way approach set out by Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche (1846–1912).

Dzogchen 20 Jan 2025

Notes from the Oral Tradition on Ālaya, Ālaya Consciousness, etc.

These notes discuss the ālaya, or 'ground of all', as well as the ālaya-consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna) and other forms of consciousness from a practical, experiential perspective, rather than a scholastic or theoretical point of view. They drew upon the sayings and explanations of such masters as Adzom Drukpa, Tertön Sogyal and Dudjom Lingpa.

Dzogchen Advice Notes 15 Jan 2016

Ngöndro Compendium

Ngöndro Compendium—Part 1—Invoking the Lama

Ngöndro Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro

Ngöndro Compendium—Part 2—Taking Refuge

Ngöndro Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro

Ngöndro Compendium—Part 3—Arousing Bodhichitta

Ngöndro Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro

Ngöndro Compendium—Part 4—Mandala Offering

Maṇḍala Offering Ngöndro Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro

Prayers

Prayer That Synthesizes the Blessed Speech of Several Learned and Accomplished Masters

The author draws upon a variety of sources to compose this plea for the guru's blessings as a means of deepening renunciation, compassion, devotion and realization.

Prayers 28 Nov 2024

Testament

The Final Testament of Yukhok Chatralwa as Transmitted to Lama Rigdzin Nyima

This final testament, which succinctly expresses the view, meditation, action and fruition of the Great Perfection, was transmitted to Lama Rigdzin Nyima (b. 1931).

Testament Dzogchen 15 Nov 2017

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