John Reynolds - Sutra + Tantra explanation

[kalden yungdrung]

Tashi delek,

John Reynolds gives here a very to the point explanation about Buddhist Sutra + Tantra.
Also is meditation explained.

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Mutsog Marro
KY

[oldbob]

Lama Vajranatha is a truely great scholar / practitioner / Teacher.

He fearlessly turns the Wheel.

http://vajranatha.com/schedule.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

His new book is extra ordinary

http://www.amazon.com/Practice-Dzogchen ... 9937506670" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Remembering that words about Dzogchen are not Dzogchen, these are pretty good words describing Bon Dzogchen practices.

It appears that nothing was left out. Find a Bon Master and go for it.

[kalden yungdrung]

Tashi delek,

John Reynolds a very well person in Bön as well Vajrayana Buddhism. I have heard that he joined one time the Namkhai Norbu Community , but left there for some " unknown " reasons. Must ask him onr time, about his reason to leave there that community.

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John Reynold´s biography:

Biography:

John Myrdhin Reynolds, aka Vajranatha, studied History of Religions, Anthropology, Arabic, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, at the University of California at Berkeley, and at the University of Washington at Seattle. At the former he pursued Islamic Studies under Prof. Arthur Jeffrey and Iranian Studies under Prof. J. Duchesne-Guillemin. He did his PhD research in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Buddhist Philosophy under Prof. Edward Conze, the world-renowned scholar of the Buddhist Prajnaparamita literature.

He then spent more than 10 years in India and Nepal doing field research at various Hindu Ashrams in South India and at Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Nepal. At these latter locales, he researched the literature, rituals, and meditation practices of the Nyingmapa and Kagyudpa schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

His Lama teachers included:
Dezhung Rinpoche,
Kangyur Rinpoche,
Chatral Rinpoche,
Dudjom Rinpoche,
Kalu Rinpoche,
Gyalwa Karmapa,

His special study was Dzogchen and the Buddhist Tantras, both in their own terms, and in comparison with Gnosticism and other mystical traditions of the West. As a result, he translated into English many original Tibetan texts belonging to the Nyingmapa and Kagyudpa traditions, and more recently texts from the Bön tradition. In Nepal he researched the techniques and lore of Tibetan shamanism, including rites of exorcism and soul retrieval, employed and practiced among Ngakpa Lamas belonging to the Nyingmapa school. The thrust of this research was experiential and participatory, and not just restricted to texts.

He has been initiated into both the Nyingmapa and the Kagyudpa orders of Tibetan Buddhism and in 1974 in Kalimpong he received ordination from HH Dudjom Rinpoche as a Ngakpa or Buddhist Tantric Yogin of the Nyingmapa order, receiving the name Vajranatha (Rigdzin Dorje Gonpo). With the inspiration and permission of His Holiness, he began in-depth research into the Ngakpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism stemming from Guru Padmasambhava and Nubchen Sangye Yeshe in the 8th century of our era.

Since then he has continued his researches and lectured widely in India, Europe, and America. He has taught History of Religions and Buddhist Studies at Shanti Ashram (South India), at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), at the University of California (Santa Cruz), and more recently at the College of New Rochelle in New York City. Furthermore, he has taught in various countries of Europe, lecturing and presenting seminars on Buddhism, meditation, Tibetan shamanism, and psychological development in Amsterdam, Den Haag, Groningen, Copenhagen, Malmo, Oslo, Devon, and London, as well as in Italy, Greece, Mallorca, Poland, Hungary, and Jugoslavia.

In the past two decades he has worked closely with Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, the foremost exponent of Dzogchen practice in the West, on a number of translations of important Nyingmapa Dzogchen texts. Since 1989, he has worked closely with Lopon Tenzin Namdak, the foremost scholar of the Bonpo tradition outside of Tibet, on the translation into English of a large number of ancient and rare Bonpo Dzogchen texts, including the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud, and also the Ma Gyud, the Bonpo Mother Tantra. As his principal focus, he continues his research into the historical origins of Dzogchen in both the Nyingmapa and the Bon traditions, and especially into the connections of Dzogchen and the Bon tradition with the Iranian religious culture of ancient Central Asia and the West, including Iranian Buddhism, Mithraism, and Gnosticism. This research into original texts in Tibetan and Sanskrit, as well as comparative studies in terms of religion, mysticism, and magic, and the producing of monographs thereon, is known as the Vidyadhara Project.

Publications
His publications include The Alchemy of Realization (1978, Simhanada Publications),

Tibetan Astrological Calendar and Almanac (1978, Kalachakra Publications),

The Cycle of Day and Night (1984, 1987, Station Hill Press),

The Golden Rosary of Tara (1985, Shang Shung Edizione), The Adamantine Essence of Life (1987, Vidyadhara Publications),

Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness (1989, 2000 Snow Lion),

The Secret Book of Simhamukha (1990, 2001, Vidyadhara Publications),

Wicca, Paganism, and Tantra (1994, Vidyadhara Publications),

Path of the Clear Light (forthcoming 2006- 2007),

The Golden Letters (1996, Snow Lion), and Space, Awareness, and Energy (forthcoming with Snow Lion).

As the Bönpo Translation Project of the Bönpo Research Foundation, he has privately published a series of monographs on Bonpo Dzogchen and Tantra, and as Simhanada Publications, he has privately published a series of monographs and practice texts (sadhanas) from the Nyingmapa and Kagyudpa traditions of Tibetan Buddhism relating to Dzogchen and Buddhist Tantra. In San Diego, California, he established the Vidyadhara Institute for Comparative Studies in Mysticism and the Esoteric Traditions which, in the near future, will publish or republish a series of monographs on Buddhist and Tibetan Studies and also on various topics from the History of Religions, focusing on a comparive study of Buddhism and Bon with other mystical traditions such as Gnosticism, Neo-Platonism, Early Christianity, Kabalah, and Sufism, as well as dealing with the questions of East-West Psychology and meditation practice.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Myrdhin_Reynolds

[kalden yungdrung]

Tashi delek,

A new published book by John Reynolds.

It deals with the Gyalwa Chaktri, the explanatory book of the Bön Dzogchen Cycle of Teachings.

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Practice of Dzogchen in the Zhang-Zhung Tradition of Tibet, containing translations from the Bönpo Dzogchen practice manual for the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud, known as the Gyalwa Chaktri of Druchen Yungdrung, and from the Odsal Dunkor,

The 7 fold Cycle of the Clear Light, being the Dark Retreat practice from the same tradition, translated with commentaries and notes by John Myrdhin Reynolds.

The translations presented here, made by a noted Tibetologist and scholar-practitioner, all relate to the actual practice of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, according to the ancient Bönpo tradition of Tibet known as the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud,
The Oral Transmission from Zhang-zhung. The country of Zhang-zhung was once a powerful kingdom that lay in what is now Western and Northern Tibet, centering around Gangchen Tise, the famous Mount Kailas.

As a written tradition, these teachings and practices are said to go back to at least the 8th century of our era, coming from the enlightened Bonpo master Tapihritsa and transmitted to his disciple Gyerpung Nangzher Lodpo at the Darok lake in Northern Tibet. The master Tapihritsa gave his disciple permission to set down in writing these precepts of Dzogchen in the Zhang-zhung language for the first time.

Then in the 10th century, these same precepts were translated into the Tibetan language by Ponchen Tsanpo for the benefi t of his Tibetan disciples. In the late 11th century, these precepts were collected from various sources in Western Tibet and in Nepal and put into their present form by Orgom Kundul and Yangton Sherab Gyaltsan of Dolpo. Thus, never having been concealed due persecution, this transmission represents a continuous and uninterrupted lineage from there early times until the present.

In the 13th century, the illustrious Bonpo master and abbot of Yeru Wensakha monastery in Tibet, Druchen Gyalwa Yungdrung (1242-1290), composed a practice manual for the this tradition.

Book One deals with the preliminary practices of this Dzogchen system and the translation this text was published earlier. Included in the present volume are the translations
from Book Two that principally deal with the practices of contemplation and vision, otherwise known as Trekchod and Thodgal, as well as translations from
Book Three of the four supplementary texts dealing with the view, meditation, conduct, and fruit of Dzogchen.

Also included in this volume is a translation of the instructions for making the forty nine day dark retreat according to the Zhang-zhung tradition, the text known as The Seven-fold Cycle of the Clear Light. These translations were done over a period of time under the guidance and instruction of Yongdzin Rinpoche, Lopon Tenzing Namdak, the greatest living master and native scholar of Dzogchen in the Bönpo tradition. While detailed explanations of the various practices must be had from a qualified Lama belonging to the tradition, this volume provides a useful overview of the practices on the path of Dzogchen for those who are sincerely interested in these matters.


https://www.namsebangdzo.com/Practice-o ... /17813.htm

[lelopa]

Tashi delek,

A new published book by John Reynolds.

It deals with the Gyalwa Chaktri, the explanatory book of the Bön Dzogchen Cycle of Teachings.

======================


Practice of Dzogchen in the Zhang-Zhung Tradition of Tibet, containing translations from the Bönpo Dzogchen practice manual for the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud, known as the Gyalwa Chaktri of Druchen Yungdrung, and from the Odsal Dunkor,

The 7 fold Cycle of the Clear Light, being the Dark Retreat practice from the same tradition, translated with commentaries and notes by John Myrdhin Reynolds.

The translations presented here, made by a noted Tibetologist and scholar-practitioner, all relate to the actual practice of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, according to the ancient Bönpo tradition of Tibet known as the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud,
The Oral Transmission from Zhang-zhung. The country of Zhang-zhung was once a powerful kingdom that lay in what is now Western and Northern Tibet, centering around Gangchen Tise, the famous Mount Kailas.

As a written tradition, these teachings and practices are said to go back to at least the 8th century of our era, coming from the enlightened Bonpo master Tapihritsa and transmitted to his disciple Gyerpung Nangzher Lodpo at the Darok lake in Northern Tibet. The master Tapihritsa gave his disciple permission to set down in writing these precepts of Dzogchen in the Zhang-zhung language for the first time.

Then in the 10th century, these same precepts were translated into the Tibetan language by Ponchen Tsanpo for the benefi t of his Tibetan disciples. In the late 11th century, these precepts were collected from various sources in Western Tibet and in Nepal and put into their present form by Orgom Kundul and Yangton Sherab Gyaltsan of Dolpo. Thus, never having been concealed due persecution, this transmission represents a continuous and uninterrupted lineage from there early times until the present.

In the 13th century, the illustrious Bonpo master and abbot of Yeru Wensakha monastery in Tibet, Druchen Gyalwa Yungdrung (1242-1290), composed a practice manual for the this tradition.

Book One deals with the preliminary practices of this Dzogchen system and the translation this text was published earlier. Included in the present volume are the translations
from Book Two that principally deal with the practices of contemplation and vision, otherwise known as Trekchod and Thodgal, as well as translations from
Book Three of the four supplementary texts dealing with the view, meditation, conduct, and fruit of Dzogchen.

Also included in this volume is a translation of the instructions for making the forty nine day dark retreat according to the Zhang-zhung tradition, the text known as The Seven-fold Cycle of the Clear Light. These translations were done over a period of time under the guidance and instruction of Yongdzin Rinpoche, Lopon Tenzing Namdak, the greatest living master and native scholar of Dzogchen in the Bönpo tradition. While detailed explanations of the various practices must be had from a qualified Lama belonging to the tradition, this volume provides a useful overview of the practices on the path of Dzogchen for those who are sincerely interested in these matters.


https://www.namsebangdzo.com/Practice-o ... /17813.htm

which new book???
the book in the link is from 2011

[kalden yungdrung]

Tashi delek,

A new published book by John Reynolds.

It deals with the Gyalwa Chaktri, the explanatory book of the Bön Dzogchen Cycle of Teachings.

======================


Practice of Dzogchen in the Zhang-Zhung Tradition of Tibet, containing translations from the Bönpo Dzogchen practice manual for the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud, known as the Gyalwa Chaktri of Druchen Yungdrung, and from the Odsal Dunkor,

The 7 fold Cycle of the Clear Light, being the Dark Retreat practice from the same tradition, translated with commentaries and notes by John Myrdhin Reynolds.

The translations presented here, made by a noted Tibetologist and scholar-practitioner, all relate to the actual practice of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, according to the ancient Bönpo tradition of Tibet known as the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud,
The Oral Transmission from Zhang-zhung. The country of Zhang-zhung was once a powerful kingdom that lay in what is now Western and Northern Tibet, centering around Gangchen Tise, the famous Mount Kailas.

As a written tradition, these teachings and practices are said to go back to at least the 8th century of our era, coming from the enlightened Bonpo master Tapihritsa and transmitted to his disciple Gyerpung Nangzher Lodpo at the Darok lake in Northern Tibet. The master Tapihritsa gave his disciple permission to set down in writing these precepts of Dzogchen in the Zhang-zhung language for the first time.

Then in the 10th century, these same precepts were translated into the Tibetan language by Ponchen Tsanpo for the benefi t of his Tibetan disciples. In the late 11th century, these precepts were collected from various sources in Western Tibet and in Nepal and put into their present form by Orgom Kundul and Yangton Sherab Gyaltsan of Dolpo. Thus, never having been concealed due persecution, this transmission represents a continuous and uninterrupted lineage from there early times until the present.

In the 13th century, the illustrious Bonpo master and abbot of Yeru Wensakha monastery in Tibet, Druchen Gyalwa Yungdrung (1242-1290), composed a practice manual for the this tradition.

Book One deals with the preliminary practices of this Dzogchen system and the translation this text was published earlier. Included in the present volume are the translations
from Book Two that principally deal with the practices of contemplation and vision, otherwise known as Trekchod and Thodgal, as well as translations from
Book Three of the four supplementary texts dealing with the view, meditation, conduct, and fruit of Dzogchen.

Also included in this volume is a translation of the instructions for making the forty nine day dark retreat according to the Zhang-zhung tradition, the text known as The Seven-fold Cycle of the Clear Light. These translations were done over a period of time under the guidance and instruction of Yongdzin Rinpoche, Lopon Tenzing Namdak, the greatest living master and native scholar of Dzogchen in the Bönpo tradition. While detailed explanations of the various practices must be had from a qualified Lama belonging to the tradition, this volume provides a useful overview of the practices on the path of Dzogchen for those who are sincerely interested in these matters.


https://www.namsebangdzo.com/Practice-o ... /17813.htm

which new book???
the book in the link is from 2011

You are absolutely right !
An "old " book, but very interesting, it is still actual anno data 2018.
Lets better deal with the contents than with the date of publishing.

[lelopa]

which new book???
the book in the link is from 2011

You are absolutely right !
An "old " book, but very interesting, it is still actual anno data 2018.
Lets better deal with the contents than with the date of publishing.

Yes... why not.
but why would it be better to call it a new published book?
even if it would be interesting in the year 2525


bonpos and their accuracy with dates is a phenomenon i'd never really understood