Dharmashop – Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro

Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro (Tib. ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་སྔོན་འགྲོ།, Wyl. klong chen snying thig sngon ‘gro) — the root verses of the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro are mostly taken from the original terma of Longchen Nyingtik (‘the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse’) revealed by Jikmé Lingpa (1730-1798), and are therefore the vajra words of Guru Rinpoche himself. This profound and poetic revelation was then arranged and expanded by Jikmé Lingpa’s direct disciple, the First Dodrupchen, Jikmé Trinlé Özer (1745-1821), into its present form. Although we usually refer to this series of practices simply as the Longchen Nyingtik Ngöndro, its full title is ‘The Preliminary Practice of the Dzogchen Longchen Nyingtik: The Excellent Path to Omniscience’.

The Common or Outer Preliminaries
Blessing the Speech
Invoking the Lama
Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind from Samsara
  – Free and Well-Favoured Human Birth
  – Impermanence
  – Karma: Cause and Effect
  – The Suffering of Samsara
Invoking the Lama’s Compassion to Avoid Pitfalls on the Path

The Uncommon or Inner Preliminaries
Taking Refuge
Generation of Bodhichitta: the Heart of the Awakened Mind
Vajrasattva Purification
The Trikaya Mandala Offering
The Accumulation of the Kusulu: Chö
Guru Yoga
  – Visualization
  – Seven Line Prayer
  – Seven Branches of Devotional Practice
  – Maturing the Siddhi
  – Invoking the Blessing
  – The Lineage Prayer
  – Receiving the Four Empowerments
  – Dissolution
Dedication
Special Prayer of Aspiration