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The project is endorsed by a number of lamas, including <a href="/tibetan-masters/shechen-rabjam-rinpoche/">Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche</a>, and led by <a href="/translators/han-kop/">Han Kop</a>. </p> <h2>The Core Texts</h2> <p>The Longchen Nyingtik treasures and compositions originally consisted of two volumes of texts revealed or written by Jigme Lingpa himself. Later, other texts crucial to the practice of the Longchen Nyingtik, such as arrangements for the practice, supplementary practices, and commentaries, were composed by other great masters, such as the <a href="/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-I/">First Dodrupchen, Jikme Trinle Özer</a> and <a href="/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/">Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo</a>. </p> <p>In recent times, <a href="/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/">Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche</a> also composed many arrangements for the practices, empowerment manuals, and commentaries that clarify the meaning of the practices. He then gathered all these texts together—the writings from his predecessors as well as his own compositions—thereby adding two additional volumes to the original Core Texts. </p> <p>These texts were published in five volumes (the original two volumes of treasures were spread out over three volumes, thus making five in total) in Nepal by Shechen Monastery in the 1990s, as a collection called the Core Texts of the Heart-Essence, or Nyingtik Tsapö <em>(snying thig rtsa pod)</em>. However, not all the texts were available to Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and so several other important and rare texts have resurfaced in the meantime. Recently, a new ten-volume edition of the Core Texts was published in Tibet.</p> <h2>Highlights</h2> <p><em>The texts published so far as part of the initiative include:</em></p> <div class="home-card"> <div class="left"><img src="/Images/Jikme_Lingpa_TS.jpg"></div> <div class="right"> <div class="title"><a href="/tibetan-masters/getse-mahapandita/jigme-lingpa-collected-works-catalogue">Precise Discernment of Dharmas: A Catalogue of the Complete Collected Works of the Omniscient King of Dharma, Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa</a></div> <div class="attrib"><a href="/tibetan-masters/getse-mahapandita">by Getse Mahāpaṇḍita Gyurme Tsewang Chokdrup</a></div> <div class="blurb"> Getse Mahāpaṇḍita wrote this catalogue to the collected writings of Jigme Lingpa on the occasion of their publication in Derge in or after 1802. He begins with a biography of Jigme Lingpa, then identifies the patrons of the printing, the King and Queen of Derge, and the one who requested the publication, Dodrupchen Jigme Trinle Özer. This is followed by the actual catalogue, which lists all Jigme Lingpa’s writings except those of the Longchen Nyingtik revelation, for which there is a separate catalogue by Jigme Losal Özer. </div> <div class="tags"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/karchak/">Karchak</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biography/">biography</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="home-card"> <div class="left"><img src="/Images/Rigdzin_Dupa_TST_collection.jpg"></div> <div class="right"> <div class="title"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dola-jigme-kalzang/words-of-siddhas-longchen-nyingtik">Words of the Siddhas: How to Practice the Heart-Essence of the Vast Expanse</a></div> <div class="attrib"><a href="/tibetan-masters/dola-jigme-kalzang/">by Dola Jigme Kalzang</a></div> <div class="blurb"> The author offers a concise yet complete overview of the entire path according to the Longchen Nyingtik, applicable to monastics and lay tantrikas alike. Using the structure of virtuous beginning, middle and end, he covers the common and uncommon preliminary practices, the generation and perfection phases, and the practices of Trekchö and Tögal. </div> <div class="tags"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/biography/">Biography</a> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/lama-yangtik/">Lama Yangtik</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="home-card"> <div class="left"><img src="/Images/Jigme_Lingpa_Rubin.jpg"></div> <div class="right"> <div class="title"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/verse-autobiography">Adornment of Dohā: A Factual Account of the Life and Liberation of the Dzogchenpa Rangjung Dorje</a></div> <div class="attrib"><a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/">by Jigme Lingpa</a></div> <div class="blurb"> This outer autobiography in verse was likely composed in 1786 at the request of the Sakya throne-holder, Jamgön Wangdü Nyingpo (1763–1809). </div> <div class="tags"> <a class="tag-circle" href="/topics/autobiography/">Autobiography</a> </div> </div> </div> <h2>The Sādhanas</h2> <p>A large section of the Core Texts of the Longchen Nyingtik consists of sādhanas and their associated rituals, empowerment manuals, and commentaries. The following is an overview based on traditional classifications:</p> <h4>1. Male vidyādharas</h4> <blockquote> <p>a. Peaceful: </p> <blockquote> <p>Outer: <a href="/tibetan-masters/jigme-lingpa/wish-fulfilling-jewel-outer-guru-yoga">Guru Yoga</a><br/> Inner: <a href="/topics/rigdzin-dupa/">Rigdzin Düpa</a><br/> Secret: <a href="/topics/dukngal-rangdrol/">Dukngal Rangdrol</a><br/> Innermost secret: <a href="/topics/tikle-gyachen/">Ladrup Tikle Gyachen</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>b. Wrathful: </p> <blockquote> <p>Blue: <a href="/topics/palchen-dupa/">Palchen Düpa</a><br/> Red: <a href="/topics/takhyung-barwa/">Takhyung Barwa</a> </p> </blockquote> </blockquote> <h4>2. Female vidyādharas</h4> <blockquote> <p>a. Peaceful: <a href="/topics/yumka-dechen-gyalmo/">Yumka Dechen Gyalmo</a><br/> b. Wrathful: <a href="/topics/longchen-nyingtik-simhamukha/">Senge Dongma (Skt. Siṃhamukhā)</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>Besides these, there is also the sādhana of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities called Zhitro Ngensong Jongwa, and the Chöd practice called Khandro Gegyang.</p> <h2>Support the Project</h2> <p>Please help by making a donation to support the commissioning of new translations and editorial work. <a href="https://www.longchennyingtik.org/support-the-project/"><i>Donate ></i></a>.</p> <div class="home-card"> <div class="left"><img src="/Static/Shechen_Rabjam.jpg" style="border-radius:100px"></div> <div class="right"> <blockquote class="quote" style="font-size: 20px;"> “I would like to offer my full support to this most meritorious and wonderful undertaking...” </blockquote> <div class="attrib"> <em style="margin-left: 20px;">— Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche</em> </div> </div> </div> <p><br> <small><p style='text-align: right'> <a href="https://www.longchennyingtik.org/endorsements">Read more endorsements of the project > </a> </p></small></p> </div>  </div> <div id="further-info2"></div> </div>  <div class="sepcol right"></div> <div class="rightcol"> <div id="image-plus"> <div class="image-box"> <img id="main-img" alt="" src="/Images/Rigdzin_Dupa_TST_collection.jpg" border="0"><br> <p class="caption serif">Deities of the Longchen Nyingtik</p> <p class="copyright">© Tertön Sogyal Trust. 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