Heart Drops of Kuntuzangpo

n nThis precious set of teachings was translated by Geshe Sonam Gurung & Daniel P. Brown, Ph.

D. under the Guidance of H.H. the 33rd Menri Trizin for the Pointing Out the Great Way Foundation.n n nn nThis book is the shortest of Shar rdza Rinpoche's trilogy on Bon Great Completion by-passing meditation. It contains: n n nn n(1) a detailed set of by-passing preliminary practices, including very detailed emptiness meditations;n n nn n(2) thoroughly cutting through pith instructions on view, meditation, conduct, and fruition to establish stable awakening. Emphasis is given the the great non-action as the essential point for crossing over from ordinary mind to awakened mind-itself;n n nn n(3) by-passing pith instructions to purify ordinary perception so as to directly experience each of the levels of by-passing visions. Emphasis is given to the specialness of by-passing pith instructions as compared to thoroughly cutting through pith instructions, drawing from the teachings in Awakened Awareness of the Cuckoo andn n nn n(4) pith instructions for recognizing the very similar visions in the dying process and after-death bardos, so as to transfer-consciousness at that time.n n nn nThis text was originally translated into English by Lopon Tenzin Namdak entitled Heart Drops of Dharmakāya, Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1993. That translation was based on lectures he gave on the text to Western students in Nepal in 1991. However, that translation, based on live lectures, is not a line-by-line translation of the original Tibetan text, and many quoted passages from other texts were omitted.n n nn