John Myrdhin Reynolds

John Myrdhin Reynolds

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Short description

"He did his PhD research in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Buddhist Philosophy under Prof. Edward Conze, the world-renowned scholar of the Buddhist Prajnaparamita literature. He then spent more than ten years in India and Nepal doing field research at various Hindu Ashrams in South India and at Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Nepal. At these latter locales, he researched the literature, rituals, and meditation practices of the Nyingmapa and Kagyudpa schools of Tibetan Buddhism. His Lama teachers included Dezhung Rinpoche, Kangyur Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, Kalu Rinpoche, Gyalwa Karmapa, and many others."

"[He] has continued his researches and lectured widely in India, Europe, and America. ... In the past two decades he has worked closely with Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, the foremost exponent of Dzogchen practice in the West, on a number of translations of important Nyingmapa Dzogchen texts."

Main teachers

"In 1974 in Kalimpong he received ordination from HH Dudjom Rinpoche as a Ngakpa or Buddhist Tantric Yogin of the Nyingmapa order"

Published Works

• The Alchemy of Realization (1978, Simhanada Publications),
• Tibetan Astrological Calendar and Almanac (1978, Kalachakra Publications),
• The Cycle of Day and Night (1984, 1987, Station Hill Press),
• The Golden Rosary of Tara (1985, Shang Shung Edizione), The Adamantine Essence of Life (1987, Vidyadhara Publications),
• Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness (1989, 2000 Snow Lion),
• The Secret Book of Simhamukha (1990, 2001, Vidyadhara Publications),
• Wicca, Paganism, and Tantra (1994, Vidyadhara Publications),
• Path of the Clear Light (forthcoming 2006- 2007),
• The Golden Letters (1996, Snow Lion), and Space, Awareness, and Energy (forthcoming with Snow Lion).

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External Links

http://vajranatha.com/

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