General Information
| Title | The Resting Up Trilogy by Longchen Rabjam |
| Sub-Title | Volume 1 of the series, the Catalogue and Overview Texts |
| Author | Tony Duff, Tamash Agocs |
| Details | 270 pages, 1 colour plate, 6" X 9" (large format) |
| ISBN | paper book 978-9937-572-??-?, e-book 978-9937-572-??-? |
| Texts | Tibetan texts in Tibetan script included |
Longchen Rabjam was one of the greatest and most prolific authors of Tibet. As well as hundreds of individual texts he wrote several major anthologies. Amongst the anthologies are three trilogies. One of the trilogies, called "The Resting Up Trilogy" is commonly used by followers of Great Completion (Dzogchen) practice as the basis for setting out on the path of Great Completion.
It is my hope to translate the entire trilogy. It is an important task because this really is the basis for Great Completion practice. Unfortunately, because it has not been translated, those following Great Completion are missing a whole series of texts that are most important for them. So far we have produced two volumes of the texts in this major anthology. All of the texts in these two volumes are essential to understanding the main texts of the anthology, but have not been available in English until now.
This first volume contains the catalogue for the trilogy and the overview for the trilogy. The catalogue is not merely a list of the texts comprising the trilogy but shows the reason for each item in the trilogy. The overview for the trilogy is a book in its own right, which has wonderful stories from the time of the Buddha and which altogether sets the stage for the actual content of the trilogy.
The special feature of the thirteenth chapter of the Guhyagarbha Tantra is that it very clearly explains how the ultimate view of great completion applies to the creation stage of a deity. Padmasambhava's teaching explains this at length. The book is truly an amazing collection of material that is regarded as crucial for Nyingma practitioners but cannot be found elsewhere in English.
The book contains a translation of the following texts:
 | "A Thousand Petalled Lotus", the catalogue text for the Resting Up Trilogy |
| "An Ocean of Elegant Explanations" the overview text for the Resting Up Trilogy |
Download Tibetan texts in TibetD format: available here in the Seven Treasuries of Longchenpa
| Title | The Resting Up Trilogy by Longchen Rabjam |
| Sub-Title | Volume 2 of the series, the Guidebook for Mindness Resting Up |
| Author | Tony Duff, Tamash Agocs |
| Details | 250 pages, 1 colour plate, 6" X 9" (large format) |
| ISBN | paper book 978-9937-572-??-?, e-book 978-9937-572-??-? |
| Texts | Tibetan texts in Tibetan script included |
Longchen Rabjam was one of the greatest and most prolific authors of Tibet. As well as hundreds of individual texts he wrote several major anthologies. Amongst the anthologies are three trilogies. One of the trilogies, called "The Resting Up Trilogy" is commonly used by followers of Great Completion (Dzogchen) practice as the basis for setting out on the path of Great Completion.
It is my hope to translate the entire trilogy. It is an important task because this really is the basis for Great Completion practice. Unfortunately, because it has not been translated, those following Great Completion are missing a whole series of texts that are most important for them. So far we have produced two volumes of the texts in this major anthology. All of the texts in these two volumes are essential to understanding the main texts of the anthology, but have not been available in English until now.
This second volume contains the three guidebooks for the the trilogy. These guidebooks show how to actually practise the material presented in their corresponding base texts. These guidebooks are intensely practical and bring the more scholarly material of each of the three basic texts of the trilogy into clear and useful focus.
Download Tibetan texts in TibetD format: available here in the Seven Treasuries of Longchenpa
| Title | The Resting Up Trilogy by Longchen Rabjam |
| Sub-Title | Volumes 3 to 6 of the series, the Three Main Texts and their Three Commentaries |
| Author | Tony Duff, Tamash Agocs |
| Details | Over 1500 pages, colour plates, 6" X 9" (large format) |
| ISBN | paper book 978-9937-572-??-?, e-book 978-9937-572-??-? |
| Texts | Tibetan texts in Tibetan script will not be included |
These volumes contain the remainder of the fifteen texts comprising the trilogy. There are six texts in these volumes in all. Three are the actual texts of the trilogy: The Great Completion Resting up in Mindness; The Great Completion Resting up in Meditation; and The Great Completion Resting up in Illusion. Three are the commentaries to the texts: The Great Chariot Commentary to Resting Up in Mindness, The Complete Purity Chariot Commentary to Resting Up in Meditation, and The Excellent Chariot Commentary to Resting Up in Illusion.
Download Tibetan texts in TibetD format: available here in the Seven Treasuries of Longchenpa