By Tony Duff

ISBN-10: 9937838657

ISBN-13: 9789937838658

The major problems with Visualization: 4 Nails Pinning the Life-Forces: A Melody of Brahma taking part in during the 3 geographical regions by way of Dza Patrul

The first Patrul Rinpoche (Dza Patrul Chokyi Wangpo) used to be a truly realized and complete grasp of the nineteenth century in Tibet. He wrote generally on all features of perform. during this textual content, he explains an important most effective guide taught within the Nyingma culture for improvement level perform. it's a Nyingma educating however it is totally acceptable to the improvement level perform taught in all the colleges of Tibetan Buddhism.

The identify of the most important guide defined within the textual content is “Four Nails Pinning the Life-Forces”. This guide is a suite of 4 headings which hide all of the major subject matters of improvement degree perform and that are, whilst, a whole set of directions for the perform. It is going even extra than that: simply because they're the most themes of improvement level perform, additionally they comprise the entire many sub-topics of the perform. Patrul Rinpoche explains all of this essentially after which enumerates 40 diverse sub-topics, each being an guide for improvement level perform. in addition, while Dza Patrul explains the 4 Nails, he additionally explains it by way of the opposite major directions for improvement level perform; for instance, he provides a great clarification of the topic known as “Purifying, finishing, Ripening” in terms of the 1st nail. Altogether the textual content is a really wealthy resource of guide for an individual doing improvement degree perform and a very good source for these attempting to comprehend its a number of details.

The significance of the 4 Nails guide might be understood from the truth that, each time authors within the Nyingma culture have to summarize the issues of improvement degree perform in a single position, they refer both to the 4 Nails or to the “Purifying, finishing, Ripening” guideline pointed out above. simply because this article explains either units of directions it really is a good way to benefit the most important issues of improvement degree practice.

This educating can also be lined, yet another way, within the Longchen Nyingthig textual content on deity perform, which we've additionally released, known as A Presentation of directions for the advance degree Deity; you'll want to learn either books together.

To the simplest of our wisdom this is often the 1st time transparent guide at the 4 Nails and “Purifying, finishing, Ripening” directions has been translated and released. The Tibetan textual content, from the Derge variation of Dza Patrul’s amassed Works is uncertain in lots of locations and has a couple of blunders in it. Lama Tony conscientiously edited the textual content to fix it, then incorporated it within the booklet with the idea that scholars may take the publication to their academics and ask for guide on it. we predict the booklet might be fairly helpful and well known during this regard.