The Great Tertön is an indispensable book for all Chokling Tersar practitioners, but also a source of wisdom and inspiration for any follower of the Vajray&#x101;na. It presents the ground, path, and fruition of Chokgyur Lingpa's life and activities, which take their source in Guru Rinpoché, and continue into the present day. The life-stories of the main lineage masters, from Guru Rinpoché, to Chokgyur Lingpa, to the present day Chokling incarnations bring the contemporary reader closer to these great figures of the past. Phakchok Rinpoché's commentary on each text further allows for a deeper understanding, which can be applied into practice directly with the accompanying supplication and aspiration prayers. Filled with amazing accounts, replete with teachings on devotion and pure perception, The Great Tertön offers practitioners all the necessary resources to cultivate the right approach towards our practice and our teachers.

The Great Terton: The Life and Activities of Chokgyur Lingpa

Chokgyur Lingpa

Guru Padmasambhava

Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo

Tara is an inspirational figure to many practitioners. She embodies the most compelling and vital qualities of the feminine: beauty, grace, and the ability to nurture, care for and protect. In addition, she is a true warrior, vanquishing fear and ignorance. One could say she is the earliest known Buddhist feminist. Skillful Grace is an entirety of instructions on deity practice centered on the female Buddha Tara. It covers everything from beginning to end. It has all the preliminaries, as well as the main part and the subsequent yogas. There is the outer and inner sadhanas with Tara and her retinue of twenty-one Taras that dispel the various fears. There is also the innermost practice of Tara with consort. It has all the details on the development stage, and describes completion stage both with and without conceptual attributes. Nothing is left out. It is utterly complete with treasure and pith instructions from Tulku Urgyen and Adeu Rinpoche, skillfully arranged by the translation/author team of Erik Pema Kunsang and Marcia Binder Schmidt. There are many explanations of the different Tara practices. However, Skillful Grace is unique in that it outlines an entire path, taking Tara as support. This book is s divided into three main sections. The first is the root text of this cycle, The Essential Instruction on the Threefold Excellence, according to the mind treasure of the profound essence of Tara as revealed by Chokgyur Lingpa. Following that is a commentary on this root text by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Next is Jamgön Kongtrül and Adeu Rinpoche’s synthesized commentary on the same text. In order to make this work less scholarly and more applicable to practitioners, we decided to paraphrase Jamgön Kongrtül commentary and blend it together with Adeu Rinpoche’s teaching. The book is rounded out with a foreword by Tara Bennett Goleman, author of the best selling book Emotional Alchemy, in depth introduction by Marcia Schmidt, and various appendixes and footnotes.

Skillful Grace

Religion & Spirituality

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Tulku Adeu Rinpoche

Buddhism

Rangjung Yeshe Publications

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