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020			_a9781559394277
040			_aLHL _beng _cLHL _erda
100			_aNgag-dbang-dpal-bzang, _cMkhan-po, _d1879-1941
245			_aWondrous dance of illusion : _bthe autobiography of Khenpo Ngawang Palzang Ösel Rinchen Nyingpo Pema Ledrel Tsel / _ctranslated from the Tibetan by Heidi L. Nevin and J. Jakob Leschly.
264			_aBoston : _bSnow Lion, _c2013.
300			_a395 pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
520			_aKhenpo Ngawang Palzang, also known as Khenpo Ngakchung or Khenpo Ngaga, was one of the great masters in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. He was an extremely influential teacher who taught some of the great lamas of the next generation, including Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche. Khenpo Ngaga was considered a living emanation of Vimalamitra and Longchenpa. In this autobiography, Khenpo Ngaga tells his life story through memories and reflections in a way that presents the entire Buddhist path, including the renunciation of worldly pursuits, finding and attending to a qualified teacher, engaging in mind training, practicing the preliminaries, studying the sutras and tantras, engaging in the generation and completion stages, and Dzogchen. Throughout he shares stories, visionary experiences, and advice that serve as a model for the reader on the path to emulate. The great Tibetologist Gene Smith considered this autobiography so important that he devoted the first chapter of his seminal study Among Tibetan Texts to it, writing that Khenpo Ngaga's autobiography is significant as "a treasury of authentic instruction on the essentials of Buddhism and Rdzogs chen meditation."
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