Effortless Spontaneity: The Dzogchen Commentaries by Nubchen Sangye Yeshe

Dylan Esler, PhD (2018), University of Louvain, MA (2005) SOAS, London, currently works as a researcher at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) of the Ruhr-University Bochum. He has published numerous articles and translations relating to Tibetan Dzogchen and Tantra, including The Lamp for the Eye of Contemplation (Oxford University Press, 2023).

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Acknowledgements

Conventions Used

Sigla



Introduction



Part 1 An Essay in Approaching Effortlessness



1 Evoking Effortlessness



2 Effortlessness as a Trope of Demarcation



3 Looking Back: A Precedent in Nyak Jñānakumāra



4 An Internal Contradiction?



5 Coalescence of the Transcendence-Immanence Relational Polarity



6 Effortlessness as Path



7 Inwardness and Spaciousness



8 The Question of Method



9 Effortlessness and Conduct



10 Encounter and Transmission



Conclusion



Part 2 The Texts



Introductory Remarks

 1 A Note on the Editions of the Orally Transmitted Injunctions of the Nyingma

 2 Overview of the Root Texts in Their Various Versions

 3 Categories of Variants



1 rJe btsan dam pa’i ’grel pa / Commentary on the Holy Revered One (JDG)



2 Byang chub sems bde ba ’phra bkod kyi don ’grel / Meaning Commentary on the Inlaid Jewel of Bliss, the Enlightened Mind (DPG)



3 rDo rje gzong phugs kyi ’grel pa / Commentary on the Adamantine Piercing Awl (DZG)



4 rTse mo byung rgyal ’grel pa / Commentary on the Victorious Peak (TBG)



Bibliography

Index