Great Perfection: - The Essence of Pure Spirituality

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Great Perfection: - The Essence of Pure Spirituality

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Has anyone read this translation of the Choying Dzod by Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche?
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Perfection ... 9937623243
I have been working on Richard Barrons translation of the Choying Dzod as well as its commentary and wondered if this translation adds anything different...thanks
"But if you know how to observe yourself, you will discover your real nature, the primordial state, the state of Guruyoga, and then all will become clear because you will have discovered everything"-Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche
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Bump...so nobody has read this book?? bummer....
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Root verses are not radically different from Barrons translation, if IIRC 'primordial' is used in place of 'timeless'. It does feature the addition of the Tibetan so that's cool.

What I would like to see is an updated version of the commentary with a clear table of contents.
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Does this one have a commentary or were you referring to Barrons?
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Fa Dao wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2018 2:43 pm Does this one have a commentary or were you referring to Barrons?
Barrons is the only English translation of the commentary I'm aware of. I wish it had the enumerations of the content.
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oh ok...understand
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The autocommentary was translated by Ives Waldo too and it used to be available for free if you asked him.

As for the OP, FWIW, I vaguely remember reading somewhere that it (STR's) wasn't very good but I'm afraid I can't remember any details.
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It is pretty good, I certainly don’t find any problems with the text itself. Since it’s one of the few translations it’s good to have it to reference. It has the Tibetan and English side by side, and two other texts, tigle gyachen and calling the lama from afar. If one is studying the text I’d say it’s worth it.
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cool...thanks for the input...the more times I read this the more I understand why Patrul Rinpoche carried a copy of it wherever he went...
"But if you know how to observe yourself, you will discover your real nature, the primordial state, the state of Guruyoga, and then all will become clear because you will have discovered everything"-Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche
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