Tsele Natsok Rangdrol

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Tsele Natsok Rangdrol (Tib. རྩེ་ལེ་སྣ་ཚོགས་རང་གྲོལ་, Wyl. rtse le sna tshogs rang grol) (b. 1608). A teacher within the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism.

He born in 1608 near the border of the Tibetan provinces Kongpo and Dakpo. He was recognized as the immediate reincarnation of Tendzin Dorje (1535-1605?), and also as a reincarnation of Götsangpa, a great master of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage, an emanation of Milarepa. In his youth he studied with the Third Pawo Rinpoche and the famous tertön Jatsön Nyingpo as well as other great teachers of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages.

Jigme Lingpa writes in his autobiography:

At a time when various experiences of śamatha were arising spontaneously, Rikzang Gomchen Dampa sent me some of the meditation instructions and oral discussions of Götsangpa Natsok Rangdrol, which cleared away many obstacles for my practice. They are extremely beneficial for beginners.

Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche encouraged the study of his writings, believing they are particularly suited to beings of these times.

Several of his works have been translated into English by Erik Pema Kunsang.

[Source: Rigpawiki]

Writings

Tsele Natsok Rangdrol's collected works comprise of 8 volumes. See:

Works translated into English

  • Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, The Circle Of The Sun: A Clarification Of The Most Excellent Of All Vehicles, The Secret And Unexcelled Luminous Vajra Essence, transl. by Erik Pema Kunsang, (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1990).
  • Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, The Heart of the Matter, transl. by Erik Pema Kunsang, edited by Marcia Binder Schmidt and Michael Tweed. Buddhist Classics. (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1996).
  • Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Lamp of Mahamudra: The Immaculate Lamp That Perfectly and Fully Illuminates the Meaning of Mahamudra, the Essence of All Phenomena, transl. by Erik Pema Kunsang, New Edition,(Kathmandu: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1997).
    • Republished as: Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Heart Lamp: Lamp of Mahamudra & The Heart of the Matter, transl. by Erik Pema Kunsang, (Kathmandu: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2009).
  • Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, The Mirror of Mindfulness: The Cycle of the Four Bardos, transl. by Erik Pema Kunsang, (Kathmandu: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2010).
  • Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Empowerment and the Path of Liberation, transl. by Erik Pema Kunsang, (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1993).
    • Republished as Empowerment and Samaya, (US: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2024).

Further reading

  • Yeshe Tsogyal, The Lotus Born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2004 (includes a partial translation of Tsele Natsok Rangdrol's Replies to Questions Concerning the Biography of Padmasambhava, སློབ་དཔོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་པད་མའི་རྣམ་ཐར་ཆེན་མོ་ལས་བརྩམ་ཏེ་དྲི་བའི་ལན་ངེས་དོན་གསལ་བྱེད་, slob dpon rin po che pad ma'i rnam thar chen mo las brtsam te dri ba'i lan nges don gsal byed)

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