The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 15 to 17

<p><strong>Choying Tobden Dorje's magnum opus presented in English for the first time, in an authoritative translation prepared under the auspices of well-known and highly respected Tibetan teachers and translators.</strong><br /><br /><em>The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra</em>, a multivolume masterwork by the eighteenth-century tantric master Choying Tobden Dorje, traces the path of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from beginning to end. <em>Books 15 to 17: The Essential Tantras of Mahayoga</em> concerns the first of the three classes of highest, or inner, tantras. It presents the entire text of the <em>Guhyagarbha Tantra,</em> in Tibetan and English, together with one of its most important commentaries, <em>Dispelling the Darkness of the Ten Directions,</em> by the outstanding fourteenth-century master Longchen Rabjam. In addition, it presents the author's rewriting of Candragomin's inspirational <em>Extensive Commentary on the Sublime Litany of the Names of Ma&ntilde;juśrī</em>, which correlates diverse aspects of Ma&ntilde;juśrī to the five pristine cognitions.</p>