Kyabje Zong Rinpoche: Chod in the Ganden Tradition

In Chöd in the Ganden Tradition we encounter not only the life and teachings of one of the greatest Tibetan masters in modern times, but also instructions in one of the most interesting Tibetan techniques for working with basic fears, applicable to Chod practitioners from all lineages. The instructions are offered with the engaging directness, wit, and stories for which Rinpoche was legendary.

He tells miraculous stories of the Ganden Oral Lineage masters and then gives detailed explanations of the actual practice, including such topics as the degree of fear "necessary" for Chod practice and how "to remember dream and death, morning, noon, and night." Also provided are the Chod sadhanas for chanting in English.

Sold separately, two CD recordings of texts translated in the appendices to this book are available. These two very useful CDs featuring Chod chants are chanted in English to the Tibetan melodies with damaru, bell, and bone trumpet:

• "Dedicating the Illusory Body as Ganachakra: Promoting the Experience of Means and Wisdom, Wealth of the Ganden Practice Lineage" by Kyabje Phabongka Dechen Nyingpo, chanted in English to the Tibetan melodies with damaru and bone trumpet by David Molk (53 min.).
• "Offering Ganachakra in Connection with the Yoga of the Profound Path of Chod" written and compiled by Kaybje Zong Rinpoche Losang Tsondru, chanted in English to the Tibetan melodies with damaru and bell (75 min.).

Texts of both chants are printed in the appendices to Chod in the Ganden Tradition, CHGATR. Please see Chod in the Ganden Tradition (#CHGACD) to order the CDs.

"A fabulous book--uplifting and enlightening. David Molk has done a most excellent job of presenting the Chod teachings ("Cutting Out Self-Grasping from the Root") from the later great Kyabje Song Rinpoche. David's many years of study and practice shine through in his re-telling of this most amazing Dharma legacy. Although the book is entitled "Chod in the Ganden Tradition," all Chod practitioners will find it useful and enlightening, regardless of their particular lineage affiliation."--Glenn Mullin, author

"In Chod In the Ganden Tradition, we finally have a wonderful testament to the wisdom, compassion and erudition of one of Tibet's greatest twentieth century Buddhist masters Kyabje Zong Rinpoche. Those who have had the good fortune to listen to the late Kyabje Rinpoche will recognize the immediacy, freshness and humor of this great master's teachings captured beautifully in this wonderful book. With this book, the translators have also brought an important aspect of Tsongkhapa's more mystical teachings to the English speaking world."--Thupten Jinpa

"The Chod offers us a method to forcefully cut off the source of our most undesirable negativities --self-cherishing and ego-grasping. In this book the translators have rendered into English both the Chod texts and its commentary given by His Holiness, the late Kyabje Zong Rinpoche. Kyabje Zong Rinpoche was the foremost master of the Ganden oral tradition following the passing of the two gurus of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the early 1980's."--Gehlek Rimpoche

"The great modern Tibetan master Kyabje Zong Rinpoche provides detailed instructions for the practice of Chod along with bone-chilling and often humorous tales of Chod masters and their students."--Tricycle Magazine

"The word 'Chöd' means 'cutting,' and the practice severs the self-cherishing mind so we can cherish others more than we cherish ourselves. Here Kyabje Zong Rinpoche, an abbot for 70 years, explains why the practice of Chod is essential to overcoming fear, internalizing transcendent wisdom, attaining altruistic aspiration to enlightenment, and realizing emptiness...Appendices including commentary on the practice and its profound path, along with a nondenominational prayer for the flourishing of the Buddha's teachings by His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama."--Reference & Research Book News

"An excellent survey of one of the finest Tibetan masters of our times...any collection strong in Tibetan Buddhist principles must have this."--The Midwest Book Review

Kyabje Zong Rinpoche was born in Eastern Tibet in 1904 and became abbot of Ganden Shartse Monastery in 1937. He was the first principal of the Central Institute of Tibetan Higher Studies in Sarnath.

David Molk began to study with Zong Rinpoche twenty-five years ago and has translated for many Tibetan lamas. He lives in Big Sur, California.

SNOW LION
11/08/2006
PAGES: 224
SIZE: 6 X 9
ISBN: 9781559392617