White Tārā from Atiśa's Tradition
This White Tārā practice draws on three lineage streams: the long kama lineage of Atiśa's tradition of White Tārā Wish-Fulfilling Wheel; the close terma lineage of Chöjé Lingpa (1682–1720), who revealed a cycle of Tārā instructions from the Red Tomb of Ching; and, most significantly, the extremely close lineage of Jigme Lingpa's direct visionary blessing from Tārā herself. Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo later composed this full empowerment manual and associated activities, building upon Jigme Lingpa's root sādhana.
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The Secrddd
209–218 sādhana by Jigme Lingpa (rgyal ba'i myu gu mkhyen brtse'i lha) requested by a Dharma practitioner (chos mdzad) called Sāra (snying po?). The same person (chos mdzad sA ra) is mentioned in Jigme Lingpa's brief biography.
218–219 torma offering etc. no colophon so presumably by JKW
219–223 Appendices to the sādhana, no colophon so presumably by JKW
223–225 Fire offering, no colophon so presumably by JKW
225–230 Empowerment (gzhan rjes su 'dzin pa) by Śāsana-dhara Vajra (i.e., Ngawang Tendzin Dorje*) with post-colophon providing the lineage down to JKW
230–231 Accumulation for longevity empowerment, no colophon so presumably by JKW
231–236 Extremely concise four-maṇḍala rite by JKW under the name Abhaya ('jigs med), kun mkhyen bla ma dgyes pa'i 'bangs
236-242 Essential las tshogs, no colophon so presumably by JKW
242–246 khrus rite by JKW under the name Mañjughoṣa
The Ḍākinī's Loud Laughter Chö Practice, from the Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse (gcod - klong chen snying gi thig le las/ gcod yul mkha' 'gro'i gad rgyangs)
English translation: Sound of Dakini Laughter: The Methode for Cutting the Ego, edited by Chimed Rigdzin Rinpoche (C.R. Lama) and translated by C.R.Lama and James Low. Revised by James Low (2020).
Arrangements & Liturgies (chok-trik, ཆོག་ཁྲིགས)
Drodul Pawo Dorje (Adzom Drukpa), The Heart of the Swift Path,The Main Visualization for the Secret Path of the Vidyādharas, A Liturgy for Wish-Fulfilling Jewel: The Scroll of the Aural Lineage for the Praṇa-Based Perfection Stage of Bliss and Emptiness
བདེ་སྟོང་རླུང་གི་རྫོགས་རིམ་སྙན་བརྒྱུད་ཤོག་དྲིལ་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུའི་ངག་འདོན་རྩ་བསྐྱེད་རིག་འཛིན་གསང་ལམ་འཁྲིགས་སུ་སྡེབ་པ། (འགྲོ་འདུལ་དཔའ་བོ་རྡོ་རྗེ)
Commentaries
Jigme Trinle Özer, Practical Instructions that Elucidate the Inner Fire Practice of the Heart-Essence of the Vast Expanse ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་གི་གཏུམ་མོའི་གདམས་པ་ལག་ལེན་ལ་འདེབས་ཚུལ། (འཇིགས་མེད་ཕྲིན་ལས་འོད་ཟེར)
Footnotes
[1] Ani Jinba Palmo, Brilliant Moon: The Autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse (Shambhala, 2008), page 304, note 19.