Kindly Bent to Ease Us
Kindly Bent to Ease Us — by Longchenpa
Longchenpa offers a guide to enlightenment that begins with traditional reflections on the preciousness of a human existence, finite in time but unlimited in opportunities. The translator - Dr. H. V. Guenther - introduces each chapter with explications based on Longchenpa's own commentaries.
Scriptural Transmission
A Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission - A Commentary on the Precious Treasure of the Basic Space of Phenomena — by Longchenpa
Contains commentary with source verses interspersed.
Way of Abiding
The Precious Treasury of the Way of Abiding — by Longchenpa
Consisting of Longchen Rabjam's source verses and autocommentary, it is a treatise on the "four great samayas" of Dzogchen - ineffability, openness, spontaneous presence, and oneness. This is one volume of The Seven Treasuries.
Basking in the Sun
Old Man Basking in the Sun - Longchenpa's Treasury of Natural Perfection — by Keith Dowman
Through the precept 'nonaction' - which is savoured like 'an old man basking in the sun' - Dzogchen teaches the natural perfection of all our experience, and all our lives, just as it is, without need of any alteration.
Maya Yoga
Maya Yoga - Longchenpa's Finding Comfort and Ease in Enchantment — by Keith Dowman
This work provides the precepts that can instantly illuminate the buddha-reality, that is our ordinary everyday experience. Reality is maya - apparent yet absent - and the recognition of it in the state of natural relaxation is maya yoga.
Eyes of the World
You Are the Eyes of the World — by Longchenpa
This book presents a method for discovering awareness everywhere, all the time. It shows how to live within the source of all life - the unified field where experience takes place.
Practice of Dzogchen
The Practice of Dzogchen — by Longchen Rabjam - translated, introduced & anotated by Tulku Thondup
This work covers the three outer and inner tantras, the three divisions of Atiyoga, Dzogchen, and the other yanas and traditions. Includes excerpts from the exemplary lives of Dzogchen teachers.
Natural Perfection
Natural Perfection - Longchenpa's Radical Dzogchen — by Keith Dowman
This work presents the radical precepts of Dzogchen, pointing the way to absolute liberation from conceptual fetters and leading the practitioner to a state of pure, natural integration into one's true being. Transcending the Tibetan context or even the confines of Buddhist tradition, Longchen Rabjam delivers a manual full of practical wisdom.
Tantric Techniques
Tantric Techniques — by Jeffrey Hopkins
The book offers a complete system of Tantric meditation, comparing the views of three seminal Tibetan authors on deity yoga, and on issues such as how to safeguard against psychological inflation and how to use negative emotions on the path.