Rangjung Dorge - Luminous Heart: Essential Writings of Rangjung Dorje, the Third Karmapa

The Nitartha Institute Series

published by Snow Lion Publications

Nitartha Institute was founded in 1996 by The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, under the guidance of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsltrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, the leading contemporary teachers of the Karma Kagy tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The Institute, under the aegis of Nitartha international, aims to fully transmit the Buddhist tradition of contemplative inquiry and learning; it offers Western students training in advanced Buddhist view and practice, as taught by the Karma Kagy and Nyingma lineages of Tibet.

The Institute is pleased to ally with Snow Lion Publications in presenting this series of important works offering a wide range of graded educational materials that include authoritative translations of key texts from the Buddhist tradition, both those unique to the Kagy and Nyingma lineages and those common to the wider scope of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism; modern commentaries by notable lineage scholar-practitioners; manuals for contemplative practice; and broader studies that deepen understanding of particular aspects of the Buddhist view. The initial releases are from the Kagy tradition and will be followed by publications from the Nyingma tradition.

This publication is an Intermediate Level Nitartha book.

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2009 by Karl Brunnhlzl

This edition published 2021

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rang-byung-rdo-rje, Karma-pa III, 12841339 author. | Rang-byung-rdo-rje, Karma-pa III, 12841339 Criticism and interpretation. | Rang-byung-rdo-rje, Karma-pa III, 12841339 Poems. Selections. | Kong-sprul Blo-gros-mtha-yas, 18131899, writer of commentary. | Brunnhlzl, Karl, translator.

Title: Luminous heart: essential writings of Rangjung Dorje, the third Karmapa / with Jamgn Kongtrul Lodr Thay and others; translated and introduced by Karl Brunnhlzl.

Description: Boulder: Shambhala, 2021.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021001590 | ISBN 9781559395007 (trade paperback)

eISBN 9780834843684

Subjects: LCSH: Enlightenment (Buddhism) | Buddhist philosophy. | Mdhyamika (Buddhism) | Yogcra (Buddhism) | Buddhist literature, TibetanTranslations into English.

Classification: LCC BQ4398 .R36 2021 | DDC 294.3/923092dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021001590

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An Aspiration by H.H. the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje

You realize that whatever appears dawns within the play of the mind

And that this mind is the dharmakya free from clinging.

Through the power of that, you supreme siddhas master apparent existence.

Precious ones of the Kagy lineage, please bring about excellent virtue.

Through the heart of a perfect Buddha having awoken in you,

You are endowed with the blossoming of the glorious qualities of supreme insight.

You genuine holder of the teachings by the name Dzogchen Ponlop,

Through your merit, the activity of virtue,

You publish the hundreds of flawless dharma paintings

That come from the protectors of beings, the Takpo Kagy,

As a display of books that always appears

As a feast for the mental eyes of persons without bias.

While the stream of the Narmad river of virtue

Washes away the stains of the mind,

With the waves of the virtues of the two accumulations rolling high,

May it merge with the ocean of the qualities of the victors.