A Lullaby to Awaken the Heart: The Aspiration Prayer of Samantabhadra and Its Tibetan Commentaries (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781614294979)

A key Dzogchen text--available together with its Tibetan commentaries, including from the fifteenth Karmapa--from a preeminent translator.

The Aspiration Prayer of Samantabhadra, one of the most famous and often-recited Dzogchen texts, is at once an entreaty by the primordial buddha, Samantabhadra, that all sentient beings recognize the nature of their minds and thus become buddhas, and also a wake-up call by our own buddha nature itself. This monumental text outlines the profound view of Dzogchen in a nutshell and, at the same time, provides clear instructions on how to discover the wisdom of a buddha in the very midst of afflictions.

In this volume, Karl Brunnh lzl offers translations of three versions of the Aspiration Prayer and accompanies them with translations of the commentaries by Jigm Lingpa, the Fifteenth Karmapa, and Ts ltrim Sangpo. He offers further contextualization with his rich annotation and appendices, which include additional translation from Jigm Lingpa, Longchenpa, and Patrul Rinpoche. This comprehensive, comprehensible book illuminates this profound text and greatly furthers our understanding of Dzogchen--and of our own nature.

Author: Karl Brunnhzl
ISBN-10: 1614294976
ISBN-13: 9781614294979
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2018
Pages: 504
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.60d