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Boundless Vision: A Manual of Dzogchen Changter Yoga Paperback – March 18, 2018

by Tulku Tsulo (Author), Keith Dowman (Editor), Tulku Thondrup (Translator)
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BOUNDLESS VISION presents the Dzogchen practices of the Tibetan Northern Treasure tradition of the master Godemchan according to the 19th century master Tulku Tsulo. Tulku Thondrup Rinpoche's translation has been edited by Keith Dowman. Tulku Tsulo's lamrim text begins in Part One with the preliminary Dzogchen practices (ngondro) including the Five Nails, all treated at length. These elementary levels are evidently designed for newcomers to the Nyingma path. Part Two begins with the inner, Dzogchen, preliminaries (rushen) and then treats the trekcho and togal central meditations, providing clear and detailed instruction and metaphorical indication for both meditation phases. The Breakthrough (togal) section emphasizes direct introduction, while the Leap-over (togal) section, thoroughly explicates the four lamps and the four visions. Bardo descriptions as meditation experience in this life conclude this section. Part Three summarizes the result and completes the text. The Northern Treasure (changter) tradition is founded in the termas that Rigzin Godemchan discovered in a treasure cache in Western Tibet in the 14th century, which is collectively known as All-Good Boundless Vision. This treasure cache is universally renowned for its clarity, lucidity and profundity. (The Northern Treasure is to be distinguished from the more prolific Southern Treasure - lhoter - of which Jigmelingpa is a major exponent). Tulku Tsulo (Tsultrim Zangpo, 1884-1957?) of Do Dorje Trak gompa in Kham composed this celebrated lamrim, based on Godemchan's terma, which Tulku Thondrup entitles BOUNDLESS VISION . This textbook of Dzogchen training became a primer for latterday changter practitioners, amongst whom was Tertrul Chimme Rigzin Rinpoche (1922-2002), who received the instruction from Tulku Tsulo himself at the Khordong Gompa in Kham, bringing it to Shantiniketan University in Bengal, India. It has been authoritatively translated by Tulku Thondrup Rinpoche, a primary lineage holder of Chimme Rigzin at Shantiniketan, now teaching in Boston, USA. A vital community in Germany and Poland continues the tradition. Tulku Thondrup has contributed a practical introduction to his translation, along with useful notation elucidating textural cruxes in footnotes and establishing the origin of Tulku Tsulo's quotations in endnotes. Keith Dowman's editing updates the terminology of Dzogchen, bringing it in line with rapidly changing contemporary usage. This seminal Dzogchen text is published here by Dzogchen Now! Books with an understanding of the karmic burden entailed. Our hope and anticipation is that it is treated with the respect that this core text demands, that positive outcome will greatly outweigh any negativity caused by inappropriate motivation, and in this respect we draw the prospective reader's attention to the protecting powers of the Dzogchen Dharma.
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    English
  3. Publication date
    March 18, 2018
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 0.55 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1985102846
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1985102842
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BOUNDLESS VISION presents the Dzogchen practices of the Tibetan Northern Treasure tradition of the rigzin Godemchan according to the 19th century master Tulku Tsulo. Tulku Thondrup Rinpoche's translation has been edited by Keith Dowman. Rigzin Godemchan (1337-1408) resides in the highest echelon of buddhas in the Nyingma lineages, and is exalted equally by the Southern Treasure tradition. His lineage is founded in Dorje Trak Gompa in Central Tibet and has a strong presence in Kham. Tulku Tsulo (Tsultrim Zangpo, 1884-1957?), the author of BOUNDLESS VISION, was a khempo at the Dorje Trak gompa in Domang, Kham. He was the grandson of Nuden Dorje Dropen Lingpa; he taught at Shukchung, Bahne and Khordong gompas; he composed eight volumes of commentary; and his reputation spread widely throughout eastern Tibet. Chimme Rigzin Rinpoche (1922-2002) was recognized as the fourth incarnation of Nuden Dorje Dropen Lingpa in the Khordong Gompa in south-eastern Kham and received instruction from Tulku Tsulo. Transported to India he taught in the Shantiniketan university in West Bengal, founded a gompa in Siliguri, and teaching abroad he established a Khordong tradition in Germany and Poland. Tulku Thondrup studied under Chimme Rigzin at Shantiniketan, India, before departing for Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where under the auspices of the Buddhayana Foundation he became a prolific translator and well-beloved mentor. Chimme Rigzin induced him to translate this text into English. Keith Dowman, born in England, lived in India and Nepal under the tutelage of Dudjom Rinpoche and Kanjur Rinpoche for 45 years, and now lives in Mexico, translating and teaching Dzogchen.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 18, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1985102846
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1985102842
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.55 x 9 inches
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  • Justbeing
    5.0 out of 5 stars As fine a translation for this time as is
    Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2019
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    A reverent book to be read and digested quietly.
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  • Michael White
    5.0 out of 5 stars Practical Dzogchen meditation instruction
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2018
    The book’s original title in Tibetan is A Vision Ornament of the Knowledge-Holders. It is a commentary on a cycle of 39 texts published in 5 volumes titled A Vision Ornament of the Rigzin Knowledge-Holders that Fulfills Every Pure Hope: A Manual that Blends and Simplifies the Instruction of All-Good Boundless Vision. The title of the commentary has been mercifully shortened to Boundless Vision. The original text was written in the 14th century by the terton Rigzin Godem in Western Tibet. The author of the commentary, Tulku Tsulo (d.1957), was a famous scholar and meditation master in Western Tibet. These teaching are from a lineage known as the Changter or Northern Treasure School. This book is a clear and detailed manual of Dzogchen instructions. Dzogchen, the most esoteric branch of Vajrayana Buddhism, practices what it calls non-meditation and relies on bringing awareness into a present moment, spontaneous, non-dual relation to the world.
    Tulku Thondrup, the translator, is a well-known teacher living in America and is a representative of the Northern Treasure School. He was asked to translate this text by one his teachers who was a disciple of Tulku Tsulo. He began the translation in 2000 CE and in 2010 passed the text to Keith Dowman. It has been Keith Dowman’s mission to translate Dzogchen texts into a poetic vernacular that is understandable to modern readers. In this effort he uses terms like pixel, praxis, self-envisionment and alpha purity, rendering the text in a language devoid of many of the technical Tibetan terms of Vajrayana Buddhism that often go untranslated in other traditional texts.
    The heart of the book is in the chapters that deal with techniques for Breakthrough and Leap-over. These chapters provide a litany of detailed meditation instructions. In the Vajrayana tradition there are a myriad of meditation practices, typically starting with the standard silence meditations of calm abiding and penetrating insight. The hallmark of Tibetan Buddhism is the incredible trove of practice texts called sadhanas which provide detailed visualizations accompanied by mantra recitations. However, in Dzogchen the primary practice is non-meditation, a direct realization that views the world from a non-dual non-egoistic perspective freed from the baggage of personal opinions, judgments or prejudices. Here the point of view is the basic human nature inherent in each of us rather than the accumulation of habitual thoughts and emotional patterns that have developed as a result of individual heredity, education and the circumstances of a person’s birth. Basic human nature is the same regardless of your language, country of origin, race, sexual orientation, etc. When the intellect voices basic human nature it speaks with wisdom, when behavior is motivated by basic human nature it is compassionate, and when emotions are an expression of basic human nature you experience equanimity and bliss. In the most radical Dzogchen teachings the usual meditation practices such as visualization and mantra recitation subvert this direct realization and are just more mental subterfuge. In Dzogchen the meditation posture is the one you are in now and there is no point in sitting on a cushion, rather the point is to directly realize basic human nature and express it through the intellect, emotions and behavior.
    The first section of the book is a review of the preliminary practices of Tibetan Buddhism. Then starting with the chapters on Breakthrough and Leap-over the language undergoes a dramatic transformation to express the basic principles of Dzogchen. What sets this book apart from the proliferation of other books about Dzogchen are the series of instructions that facilitate the unique Dzogchen realization. Anyone who has attended retreats with the editor of the text, Keith Dowman, will immediately recognize several of the practices that he uses. These include the meditation on the HUNG stick, the practice of sky-gazing, open-eyed observation, and the release of emotions in a direct experience of the six realms.
    The first and the last part of the book are almost a contradiction of the chapters on Breakthrough and Leap-over. This text is referred to as a lam-rim or gradual approach to Dzogchen, which could be considered an oxymoron or contradiction in terms. Finally, there is another strange sort of contradiction that creeps into text in that the translator feels it necessary to issue a series of warnings which are echoed in other parts of the text. Tulku Tsulo warns that anyone who shares this text inappropriately will be reborn in a “hell of ultimate torment” and Tulku Thondrup goes so far as to warn that “divine protectors” have vowed to punish those who misuse the text. This sort of thing often accompanies Dzogchen texts and creates a weird tension between the elevated understanding of human nature embodied in the text and this kind of talk that seems, at least to the Western mind, to be supervened by the realization taught in the text. The text has nothing that is beyond the understanding of anyone willing to make the effort to study it. It is highly esoteric and only students who are interested in Dzogchen will be motivated to read it. However, to these people this text is exciting since it contains some very practical instruction that is rare in these types of books.
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  • jogen
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Unsurpassed Transmission of Confidence in the Dzogchen Ati-Yoga View and Meditation
    Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2018
    This is an inspired and lucid practice manual radiant with the blessings of Tulku Tsulo's wisdom. I found the Breakthrough (Trekcho) section to be particularly rich and clarifying. The style of the manual strikes me as similar to the Yeshe Lama and i suggest it as an excellent companion volume to that text.

    "We have confidence that the compassion of the primal awareness of pure presence ceaselessly suffuses the heart of every being. Dwelling in that confidence, experientially we reach the depths of the vast matrix of mind. All the delusions of phenomena are purified in their own nature..." !!!!
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  • Kim M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Keith’s editing shines in its ability to make this an easily readable text and one not easy to put down
    Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2018
    This is considered one of the most sacred of dzogchen manuals and clearly presents both the graduated and radical or sudden approach. Keith’s editing shines in its ability to make this an easily readable text and one not easy to put down. This book will shine light on wherever you are on the dzogchen mandala, the only place you can ever truly be.
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  • MUNDA
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in India on June 17, 2018
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    This is a very valuable book; a treasure.
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