Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos

By Padmasambhava

A perfect companion to the well-known Tibetan Book of the Dead.

In life and in death, in meditation and in sleep, every transitional stage of consciousness, or bardo, provides an opportunity to overcome limitations, frustrations, and fears. The profound teachings in this book provide the under- standing and instruction necessary to turn every phase of life into an opportunity for uncontrived, natural liberation.

Like the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Natural Liberation is a term, a "hidden treasure" attributed to the eighth-century master Padmasambhava. Gyatrul Rinpoche's lucid commentary accompanies the text, illuminating the path of awakening to the point of full enlightenment. Natural Liberation is an essential contribution to the library of both scholars and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Release date: Jun 4, 2012
• ISBN: 9780861717248

Padmasambhava

Guru Padmasambhava was miraculously born within a blossoming lotus flower on the shore of Lake Dhanakosha in the northwest of Uddiyana. Known as Padmasambhava, the Lotus-Born, he grew to adulthood in the kingdom of Uddiyana and traveled extensively thereafter through ancient India in search of realized masters of sutra and tantra with whom to study the Dharma. The Lotus-Born Guru then traveled to Nepal, where he engaged in rigorous practices and extraordinary displays of compassion. Finally, he reached Tibet at the invitation of the renowned Dharma King Trisong Detsen, taking teachings with him that would inspire and transform, and that continue to do so to this day.

Reviews for Natural Liberation

[dirkjohnson_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Gyatrul Rinpoche is another great Lama whom we're fortunate to have translated by one of the first great American-born lineage holders. In some ways we have to be grateful to the Chinese Communists for sending them to us, even though it was very far from their intention, just as it was far from the Islamic invaders of Byzantium's intention to spark the European Renaissance.