Concise Daily Practice with Feast Offering

On the tenth day of the ninth month of the Earth Monkey Year (November 7, 1848), Terchen Chokgyur Lingpa was only twenty years old, yet the time was ripe to reveal what would become the most renowned of his treasures: the cycle known as the Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacles (Lamé Tukdrup Barché Künsel). Khandro Yeshé Tsogyal had hidden this vast treasure twelve years after Guru Rinpoché’s departure from Tibet. It lay concealed beneath the foot of Drak Palchenpo (Great Glory Cliff) at Danyin Khala Rongo (Sun and Moon Valley Pass), one of the twenty-five sacred sites of Kham that represent the enlightened qualities of Guru Rinpoché’s awakened body. Chokgyur Lingpa kept this treasure hidden for eight years, after which he presented the decoded treasure to Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo. Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo realized, as he began to read it, that both the meaning and the words were virtually identical to a treasure he had personally revealed. They therefore decided to combine the two practices into one. Khyentsé declared that, since Chokgyur Lingpa’s Dispeller of All Obstacles was an earth terma, its authenticity was the more clearly established of the two. At this, they mutually resolved to retain only the Dispeller of All Obstacles. With the help of Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé these teachings were spread throughout Tibet and, eventually, the world.

The Gradual Path of the Wisdom Essence (Lamrim Yeshé Nyingpo) outlines the Four Cycles of Guru Yoga (Ladrup Korzhi), namely Barché Künsel, Sampa Lhündrup, Tsokyé Nyingtik and Guru Draktsal. Among these, the outer practice of Barché Künsel is the guru’s heart practice that clears away all hindrances, thus actualizing the siddhis. According to Kyapjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoché, “It is the quintessence of a billion guru heart sadhanas, the most unique terma buried in the land of Tibet.” In the mandala of the Dispeller of All Obstacles, Guru Padmasambhava appears surrounded by his twelve emanations, each with their own unique and profound teachings and practices. Of the various sadhanas associated with this cycle the Concise Manual for Daily Practice (Gyunkyi Koljang) constitutes the most concise guru sadhana from the Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacle.

The following arrangement includes The Concise Manual for Daily Practice (Gyunkyi Koljang), the most concise guru sadhana from The Guru’s Heart Practice, Dispeller of All Obstacle cycle, along with brief lineage and dedications prayers, and Cloudbanks of the Two Accumulations, the feast offering (tsok) liturgy that includes the Six Vajra Lines Prayer. It was initially compiled under Phakchok Rinpoche’s guidance for the purpose of making 100,000 feast offerings (referred to as a tsok bum) at the Asura Cave in Pharping, Nepal, the site where Guru Padmasambhava realize the supreme siddhi of mahamudra with his Newar consort Belmo Shakyadevi.