8th Anniversary of the Parinirvana of His Holiness the 33rd Menri Trizin

On the 24th day of the 7th lunar month in the Western year 2017, His Holiness the 33rd Menri Trizin Lungtok Tenpé Nyima Rinpoché displayed his realization by passing into nirvana from his physical body. In 2025, this date coincides with the Western calendar date September 15th. On this day, Yungdrung Bön religious centers worldwide will recognize this auspicious day with special prayers and rituals.

In accordance with the request of H.H. 34th Menri Trizin Rinpoche, a statue with the likeness of H.H. the 33rd Menri Trizin Lungtok Tenpé Nyima Rinpoche was commissioned and installed at Menri Monastery in India.

On the full moon day of the 5th lunar month in 1929, His Holiness was born in Amdo, Tibet into the Jongdong family lineage. He was given the name Lama Thar. By the age of 13, he had gained knowledge and experience for chanting, performing rituals, and playing instruments. At the age of 14, he performed the preliminary practices including the 900,000 accumulations three times. He received novice monk vows at the age of 17. Eight years later, he completed his geshe degree. In 1956, he received empowerment and teachings for the Four Cycles of the Aural Transmission of Zhang Zhung from His Holiness the 30th Menri Trizin Tenpa Lodrö Rinpoche. In 1968 at the age of 39, he was selected through an extensive ritual process to become the 33rd Menri Trizin and leader of the worldwide Yungdrung Bön community.

Three years after his enthronement, he began construction of the main temple of Pal Shenten Menri Ling in Dolanji, India. Two years later, he opened a dispensary and began distributing free medicine not only to the local Bönpo, but also to the local Indian community. In 1975, he founded the Central School for Tibetan in Dolanji. Three years later, he founded the dialectic college at Menri Monastery to enable monks to receive the prestigious geshe degree. At the age of 66 in 1994, His Holiness 33rd Menri Trizin returned to Tibet for the first time. Arriving at Tashi Menri, he sat on the golden throne of Nyammé Sherap Gyaltsen in the original Menri Monastery.

Memorial chorten for His Holiness the 33rd Menri Trizin at Pal Shenten Menri Ling

At the age of 89 in the early evening of the 24th day of the 7th lunar month in 2017, His Holiness entered into parinirvana and his physical body remained in a state of tukdam for many days. Three days before, he asked for all of the school children to come and see him and receive a gift of candy. The next day, he requested for all of the villagers to come and visit him. On the morning of his passing into nirvana, he gave an audience to all the ordained.

“It is important for you to feel grateful every day to the one who introduced you to the nature of mind. When you do a meditation you feel gratitude, blessings, and thankfulness, experiences of inspiration and devotion. It is not like your gratitude is benefitting the master. Rather, it is important in order for you to develop your practice. If you cannot do a form of guru yoga every day, then just before you are going to sleep, as you are going to bed, feel the blessings, gratitude, and joy and dissolve the master from the crown of the head to the heart. Feel the master in your heart and go to sleep. You will have better dreams and more peaceful sleep. When you wake up in the morning, those energies can come out from the top of the head, that liveliness, and you can have a better day. You can begin the right way.”

Extract from Living Wisdom: Dzogchen Teachings from the 33rd Menri Trizin, His Holiness Lungtok Tenpai Nyima Rinpoche published by Sacred Sky Press

Supplication Prayer to H.H. the 33rd Menri Trizin Rinpoché

“Marvelous! The omniscient wisdom of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions is condensed into a single essence in you, Highest One.

You carry out the enlightened activities of spreading the vast and profound teachings of Tönpa Shenrap.

To you, Lungtok Tenpé Nyima, I supplicate and pray.

é ma ho, rap jam chok chü gyal wa sé ché kyi,

khyen tsé yé shé ngo wo chik dü pa, zap gyé shen ten pel wé trin lé chen

lung tok ten pé nyi ma sol wa dep“

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The Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü, Nyam Gyü, & The Chak Tri: How are They Related?

The Nine Buddhas, the Twenty-four Masters, Tapihrista, and the three protectors of the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü

Although this website purposely does not share or discuss the dzogchen teachings or practices, this article explains the relationship of three separate texts within one of the most treasured cycle of dzogchen teachings: The Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü, The Aural Transmission from Zhang Zhung. Of the three, sometimes counted as four, primary lineages of dzogchen in the Yungdrung Bön tradition, the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü stands out as being especially treasured. Although the other scriptures were hidden or kept secret during the persecution of the 8th century C.E in Tibet, the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü was given protected status by the persecuting king. Thus, the transmission of this high teaching from one master to the ear of one student down through generations was never broken. Although it has traditionally been kept very secret, due to changing circumstances in modern times the protectors of the scripture have given permission to allow the teaching to be shared more openly.

The Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyu: The full title of the text is The Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyu Ka Gyü Kor Zhi, The Four Cycles of the Enlightened Words of the Aural Transmission of Zhang Zhung. It is commonly referred to as either The Nyen Gyü or The Kor Zhi. This is the root text. The source of these teachings is the primordial enlightened one, Küntu Zangpo. The teachings were transmitted mind-to-mind from Küntu Zangpo through eight other enlightened ones to Sangwa Düpa. This Sangwa Düpa was born a prince of Tazik and is considered by Bönpos as the previous incarnation of Shakyamuni Buddha. He transmitted the teaching using both his awareness and spoken words to a human, a lu [Sanskrit: naga], and a god. These three disciples are the beginning of the lineage known as the twenty-four masters who all successively attained the rainbow body of light as a sign of the ultimate realization of dzogchen. From there, the transmission continued to the esteemed yogi Nangzher Lopo who was instrumental in protecting the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü from having to be hidden in order to not be destroyed during the time of persecution. With permission from Tapihritsa, he first wrote down the core teachings given to him by Dawa Gyaltsen and Tapihritsa in the 8th century C.E.. These included teachings such as The Four Goodnesses, The Six Lamps, The Twenty-One Nails, and so on. In the 10th century, Pöngyal Tsenpo, aka Pönchen Tsenpo, translated those teachings from Zhang Zhung into Tibetan and also wrote down descriptions of the Trul Khor movements.

Later in the 11th century, Yangtön Chenpo Sherap Gyaltsen, a member of the esteemed Yangtön clan of Dolpo, received the full transmissions for the upper and lower systems of teachings, thus uniting them. He wrote down this compilation of teachings as well as commentaries. He is considered to have had great kindness for disciples by writing the complete teachings of the Nyen Gyud and Nyam Gyü down for the first time as they are known and practiced today in order to make it easier for their study and practice. However, it is believed that by writing down the secret teachings, an obstacle was created and his lifespan was shortened because he died at the age of 63 rather than the prophesied age of 75. (For a fuller list of the lineage lamas of the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü, see previous article: https://ravencypresswood.com/2015/01/18/the-field-of-accumulation-the-aural-transmission-of-zhang-zhung/ )

The Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü is a relatively large volume containing titles such as The Twelve Small Tantras and its corresponding commentary, The Twenty-one Nails and its corresponding commentary, The Six Lamps and its corresponding commentary, instructions on the practice of trul khor and tsa lung, the story of Tapihritsa and Nangzher Lopo including teachings of The Four Goodnesses, Quintessential Instructions for practicing with the mind, Self-purification of the Six Destinies, invocations of the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü guardians Nyipangsé and Menmo Namchi Gunggyal, and so on. Some volumes begin with chapters dedicated to short biographies of the lineage masters.

Yangtön Chenpo Sherap Gyaltsen

The Nyam Gyu: The more complete title is The Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü Nyam Gyü, The Experiential Transmission of the Aural Lineage of Zhang Zhung. This is commonly known as The Nyam Gyü, The Experiential Transmission. This text is a collection of spiritual experiences and subsequent advice and pith instructions of the masters practicing the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü. There is a condensed collection, a medium-length collection, and an expanded collection of pith instructions. Perhaps best known is the condensed collection of pith instructions known as the Tor Bu. This was written down in the 11th Century by Orgom Kündul at the request of Yangtön Chenpo.

The Chak Tri: This text is commonly known as The Chak Tri, The Practice Manual. In the 13th century C.E., Druchen Gyalwa Yungdrung, esteemed abbot of Yeru Wensaka Monastery, received the single transmission of the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü. He went on to compile the practice manual for the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü in order to organize the teachings into a logical sequence of practice. In addition to creating a step-by-step guide for the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü teachings, he also included bits of his own advice for teachers guiding students in their spiritual development. The Chak Tri has twelve chapters which are sometimes grouped into five general categories.

  • Chapter One contains the hagiography of many of the lineage masters of the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyü.
  • Chapter Two contains the chanted prayers and verses for the ngondro or preliminary practices. 
  • Chapter Three contains the actual instruction and visualization practices for the nine preliminary practices. 
  • Chapter Four contains instructions for the primary meditation practice of dzogchen. These instructions include practices for recognizing and stabilizing the mind.
  • Chapter Five contains instructions concerning the view of dzogchen.
  • Chapter Six contains instructions regarding dzogchen meditation.
  • Chapter Seven contains instructions regarding integration of the view with the behavior and activities of a dzogchen practitioner.
  • Chapter Eight contains instructions and clarifications regarding the result of Dzogchen practice.
  • Chapter Nine contains instructions for practices to remove obstacles and strengthen realization.  
  • Chapter Ten contains instructions on the yogic exercises of trul khor to remove obstacles and enhance meditative experience.
  • Chapter Eleven contains instructions regarding the forty-nine day dark retreat.
  • Chapter Twelve contains instructions regarding the yogic exercises of tsa lung to remove obstacles and enhance meditative experience. 
Depiction of Dru Gyalwa Yungdrung

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Special Day for Healing Waters Practice

His Eminence Menri Yongdzin Pönlop Yangtön Thrinley Nyima Rinpoche gives blessed water for cleansing obscurations and bestowing blessings to the school children of the Tapriza School in Dolpo, Nepal.

The 5th lunar day of the 7th month each year is a powerful day for receiving blessed water or for practicing with water for cleansing or healing. In 2025, this lunar date corresponds with August 28th. Healing from blessed water or other types of medicine taken on this day will continue to have amplified power for seven days.

A belief shared among many religious traditions is that particular bodies of water can bestow purification, healing, eternal youth, or special knowledge. Within the Yungdrung Bön religious tradition, there are many rituals to imbue water with the blessings and power of the enlightened ones in order to wash away negativities and provide healing and protection. This kind of water and its associated ritual cleansing is known as trü [Tibetan: khrus]. There are daily practices of ritual washing that are performed at dawn in order to cleanse the body, speech, and mind. In particular, this is one of the practices adopted by genyen, or lay practitioners with vows. In Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen’s Thirteen Daily Yogas, he gives instructions for external, internal, and secret cleansing using water. According to one’s current practice, the source of purification is from Buddha Sherap Jamma, Shenlha Ökar, or Küntu Zangpo.

“OM, From the nature of enlightened body, speech, and mind from the mandala of the completely pure Bön essence, a stream of three tiklés descend. This is water of the great unborn enlightened body. May the stains of the physical body become purified! This is water of the great unceasing enlightened speech. May the stains of speech become purified! This is water of the great undeluded enlightened mind. May the stains of mind become purified! Having purified the obscurations of body, speech, and mind of myself and the limitless sentient beings, may we be endowed with the completely pure three trainings!”

— From Stainless Majestic Splendor

One of the most widespread healing practices using water is Nampar Jompa’s Healing Waters Mantra practice. The enlightened deity Nampar Jompa has a wrathful appearance with a blue-colored body with serpents as ornaments on his arms, legs, waist, and hair.

Nampar Jompa

“I, myself, as the deity Nampar Jompa hold in my right hand a vessel filled with elixir.  In my left hand, I hold a mirror which removes all illness and injury.  Having washed with this healing water, I clearly imagine that any remaining contamination is washed away because of this medicine.”  

— From The Practice of the Washing Rite within Nampar Jompa’s Healing Waters Mantra

At the conclusion of the practice after the practitioner has transformed into the deity Nampar Jompa, empowered the water with mantra, and then washed with the water, the practice text concludes with a notation emphasizing the power of the practice.

“Thus, through this supplication prayer of the washing rite, having purified all traces of previous illness and negative external influences, just like the overflow of water from a crystal vessel, imagine that all negativity and illness leave from the tips of the fingers and toes, the nostrils and the secret place.

There is no place what-so-ever for the creation of even the smallest thing to arise.  Not even a single atom remains that needs to be purified!”

Sigyal Drakngak Walmo, the enlightened deity who protects from contagious disease through empowered water

During the global pandemic of Covid-19, many Yungdrung Bön lamas advised their disciples to engage with the mantra and practice of Sigyal Drakngak who is one of the most wrathful manifestations of Sipé Gyalmo who specifically protects from infectious disease through the use of empowered water. Translation of this text, The Heartdrop of Si Gyal that is All-pervasive and Clears Away Afflictive Emotions and Illness, has been published in both English and French. Because this is a restricted text, it is available only for those who have received transmission for the practice. (If you have received transmission and would like to order a copy of the translation, email Raven Cypress Wood at the email address listed below with the name of the teacher and the year that you received transmission and you will be given the ordering information.)

“OM! This water of nectar has the nature of wisdom and medicine. May all negative karma, afflictive emotions and discursive thoughts of migrating beings be washed away! May all illness, external negative forces, karmic potentialities, and contaminations be purified!”

— From The Heartdrop of Si Gyal that is All-pervasive and Clears Away Afflictive Emotions and Illness

In addition to the practices specifically using water as a method of purification, healing, or empowerment, there are practices and mantra that can be used to transform water from an ordinary substance to one that is imbued with extraordinary qualities. Again in Shardza Rinpoche’s Thirteen Daily Yogas, he suggests using the following mantra for all daily liquids in order to transform them into nectar: SO OM MA MA MU YE A OM HUNG TING NAM DÜTSI SO TA. One should recite the mantra seven or twenty-one times, blow onto the liquid, and then drink while visualizing that it has become the nectar of wisdom. 

Also, the great mantra, OM MA TRI MU YÉ SA LÉ DU, has extraordinary power and can be recited one hundred times or more, without the interruption of ordinary speech, then blown onto clean water used for drinking or cleansing. According to the chapter within the MA TRI tantra entitled The Thirty-two Benefits of the Sufficient Recitation of the Precious Lamp:

“Anyone affected by contaminated energy, latent karmic potentialities, misfortune, or defilements, having recited this MA TRI mantra into pure, clean water, if they ritually wash for seven mornings, even karmic defilements will be purified.”

— From The Thirty-two Benefits of the Recitation Practice of the Precious Lamp

The Heartdrop of Jamma is an aural transmission from Khandro Sherap Lo Pélma who is a manifestation of Sherap Jamma and a deity who is specifically practiced in order to develop the intellect. In The Heartdrop of Jamma, the practitioner uses the power of the mantric syllables to transform each aspect of their body into one of Jamma’s countless manifestations. This text is commonly recited by Yungdrung Bön families after the final meal of the day. This texts lists many benefits of its recitation including the use of water.

“If you recite the mantra to good quality water mixed with powdered, medicinal incense containing blessed medicine and the six excellent substances, and then cleanse with that water, all illness and sickness caused by negative forces will be pacified and all defilements and contaminations will be purified.” 

— From The Heartdrop of Jamma

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His Eminence Yongdzin Rinpoche: Cremation of the Holy Physical Remains and Fire Offering Rites

The Sacred vessel containing the Holy Physical Remains of His Eminence Yongdzin Tendzin Namdak Rinpoché

Since the parinirvana of the esteemed and greatly beloved master, His Eminence Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoché, the worldwide Yungdrung Bön community has been observing a 49-day period of veneration, prayers, and offerings to receive blessings and accumulate great spiritual merit. On Friday August 2, 2025 this 49-day period concluded. From August 4th to August 9th, an extensive fire offering rite according to the cycle of the Künrig Le Zhi Gyün Nga‘i Jin Sek will be performed. During this time on August 6th, the actual cremation of the holy physical remains will take place. The Künrig Le Zhi Gyün Nga‘i Jin Sek, is one of the primary texts in the Yungdrung Bön religious tradition used for cremation rites and the continuous fire offerings that take place. For this, a great variety and quantity of offerings are being prepared. Among these offerings are many large and small boards written with mantras and prayers that will be read by the officiating lama, consecrated with blessed substances, and then placed into the fire.

Offerings for the fire offering rites
Offerings for the fire offering rites
A great accumulation of fire offerings

During these rites, the holy physical remains will be cremated in a specially built chorten [Sanskrit: stupa]. After the conclusion of the ritual, once the ash from the offering rites has cooled, it will be carefully collected along with any relics and saved to be placed into a reliquary chorten that will be built to hold the relics along with a variety of other sacred objects and substances. Additionally, many sa tsa will be made that will be filled with some of the cremation ash and distributed to faithful disciples and supporters.

Construction of the cremation chorten at Triten Norbutsé Monastery

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610th Anniversary of the Parinirvana of The Second Buddha Nyammé Sherap Gyaltsen Rinpoche

Statue of Nyammé Sherap Gyaltsen Rinpoche in Amdo, Tibet. Photo credit: Unknown

The 8th lunar day of the 6th month is the anniversary of the parinirvana of the founder and first abbot of Menri Monastery, The Second Buddha, Nyammé Sherap Gyaltsen Rinpoche. In 2025, this date coincides with August 1st. He was born in 1356 C.E. in the Gyalrong region of Tibet into the esteemed Dru family lineage. He passed into Nirvana in 1415 C.E. at the age of 60. He is also known as Lord Rinpoche or The Second Buddha. He is renowned for many reasons, including his ability to unite the lineage of sutric, tantric, and dzogchen transmissions into a single lineage that has now been transmitted directly through the lineage of Menri Monastery abbots reaching to the current 34th abbot of Menri Monastery, Khenchen Lungtok Dawa Dargyal Rinpoche. (For more information about Nyammé Sherap Gyaltsen Rinpoche, see previous article: https://ravencypresswood.com/2022/03/06/666th-birth-celebration-of-the-second-buddha-h-h-the-1st-menri-trizin-nyamme-sherap-gyaltsen-rinpoche/ )

Title folio to The Wish-fulfilling Jewel of Inner Accomplishment of Lord Rinpoche

Although the unrivaled. Nyammé Sherap Gyaltsen Rinpoche spent time traveling, teaching, and performing his duties as abbot and leader of the Yungdrung Bön community, he was also able to complete an extensive collection of writings. These, along with the compositions of the 23rd Menri Trizin, Khenchen Nyima Tenzin, make up the bulk of the compositions allowed to be part of the Yungdrung Bön dialectic college.

The Writings of His Holiness Nyammé Sherap Gyaltsen Rinpoche*

Cycle of Supplication and Aspiration Prayers

  • Praise of the Four Supreme Places of Refuge
  • Offering and Praise to Mawé Sengé
  • Supplication Prayer to the Mawé Sengé Lineage
  • Praise of Venerable Essence of [the] Dru [Family Lineage]
  • Eight Characteristics of Tséwang’s Eight Sacred Places
  • Stages of Chanted Supplications
  • Eight-branched Aspiration Prayer, A Ladder to Freedom
  • Homage to the Charactristics of the Aural Transmission Shenraps
  • The Gift of the Physical Body
  • Condensed Peaceful Chö of Gifting the Body
  • Command for the Gods and Demons                            

Cycle of Fumigation and Fulfillment

  • Stages of Preliminary Practices for a Completely Pure Fumigation Offering
  • A Small Collection Regarding the Medicine Deity Generation Stage
  • Supplication and Requesting Consideration from the Marvelous Ones
  • Invocation of the Practice Lineage
  • Special Fulfillment
  • A Completely Pure River of Requesting Consideration and Supplication
  • Burnt Offerings of the Treasury of Precious Terma
  • General Fulfillment from a Bundle of Precious Terma
  • A Precious Mala of Fumigation Offerings
  • Fumigation Offering to the Powerful Ones
  • Fumigation Offering to Sigyal
  • Fumigation Offering to Black Mule Sigyal from the Precious Terma
  • Sigyal’s Manifested Realization
  • Sigyal’s Threadcross Practice
  • A Brief Paper on Sigyal’s Threadcross
  • A Brief Paper on Black Mule Sigyal’s Feast Offering
  • Short Fulfillment Practice of Black Mule Sigyal
  • Practice of the Black Net Threadcross
  • The Shining Lamp of Realization of the Red and Black Threadcross
  • Commandments for the Avowed Guardians of the Teachings
  • Important Points regarding the Fulfillment of Midü Jampa
  • Fumigation Offering to Midü
  • Offering and Fulfillment to Drak Tsen
  • Fumigation Offering to Drak Tsen
  • Invocation of Nyipangsé
  • Command for Nyipangsé
  • Command for the Queen of the Drala
  • Gyalpo Sheltrap Torma Offering and Fulfillment
  • A Brief Invocation of Sheltrap
  • Praise in Appreciation of the Fumigation Offering
  • Supplement to the Fumigation Offering
  • Generation Stage for the Fulfillment Torma

Cycle of Supplementary Texts for the Practices of Accomplishment

  • Destroying the Door to Negative Rebirths
  • Realization of the Completely Pure Lotus of the Vast Expanse
  • Mantric Accomplishment of Shenrap Nampar Gyalwa
  • Fire Offerings of Nampar Gyalwa
  • Realization of the Yungdrung Sutra of the Vast Expanse
  • Going for Refuge according to the Vast Expanse
  • Practice of Künzang’s Luminous AH
  • Stages of Meditative Stabilization
  • Text for Künzang’s Luminous AH
  • Stages of Realization for Walsé
  • Accomplishing the Essential Through the Realization of Walsé
  • Purification and Increase of Torma
  • Accomplishment of Sending Out and Gathering Back with Mantra Accumulation
  • Practice of the Secret Mantra Lineage
  • Realization of Black Garuda Walsé
  • Clarifying the Realization of Black Garuda Walsé
  • Expanding the Realization of the Amazing Trowo 
  • Secret Quintessential Instructions for the General Practice of the Amazing Trowo
  • Invitation, Homage, and Confession of Wrongdoing for the Reversal Practice of the Great Red Trowo
  • Inviting the Wisdom Zema
  • Aspiration Prayer for Threadcross Practice
  • A Lamp that Clarifies the Meditative Focus of Secret, Greatly Wrathful Gekhö
  • Supplication to the Gekhö Lineage
  • Complete Supplication, A Rainshower of Blessings
  • Practice of the Secret Wrathful Lineage
  • The Irreversible Mantra of Gekhö, A Golden Razor
  • Supplement to Presenting Offerings to the Gekhö Deities
  • Realization of Walpur, Ornaments of Fire
  • Fulfillment of the Walpur Lineage
  • Outline for the Empowerment and Teachings of Walpur, A Rainshower of Blessings
  • Empowerment and Teachings of Walpur, A Rainshower of Blessings
  • Realization of Tséwang Tartuk
  • Accomplishment of Tséwang Tartuk
  • Fire Offerings to Tséwang
  • Introduction for Empowerments
  • Musical Notations for Festivals

Cycle of Science

  • Tikles and Channels of Relics and the Physical Body of Those Gone to Bliss
  • Clarification regarding the characteristics of colored powders, A Magical Mirror

Cycle of Authoritative Commentaries

  • Analyzing the Characteristics of The Magical Lamp Text
  • Analyzing the Characteristics of The Magical Lamp Autocommentary
  • Clarification of the Limits of All Knowable Things
  • Commentary Regarding the Sutric and Tantric Explanations of the Stages of the Vehicles
  • Text of the Grounds and the Paths
  • Autocommentary of Text of the grounds and the paths
  • A Clear Lamp for the Path of Liberation
  • Commentary Regarding the Clear Explanation of the Abridged Kham Gyé
  • Commentary Regarding the Two Truths in the Middle Way, A Magical Lamp
  • A Commentary of Clear Advice Regarding Monastic Discipline
  • Commentary of Condensed Discipline
  • Renewing Monastic Discipline
  • Commentary Regarding Cosmology
  • Clarifying Secret Points
  • Detailed Analysis of the Secret Vows
  • Hidden Commentary on the Mind of Enlightenment, Mandala of the Sun

* Although this list is extensive, it is not complete

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