The Mirror of Mindfulness is a presentation of Tibetan Buddhist teachings on the endless cycle of experience, the four bardos — life, death, after-death, and rebirth. It is aimed at inspiring and helping the practitioner achieve liberation from deluded existence and awaken to complete enlightenment for the benefit of others.
I considered that this explanation of the bardos would benefit everyone interested in the dharma. The words are clear and easy to understand, and lengthy scholarly expositions are not emphasized. This text, easy to comprehend and containing all the key points and very direct instructions, results from following the oral advice of a qualified master. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The author, Tsele Natsok Rangdröl, was renowned as one of the most learned and accomplished masters of seventeenth-century Tibet. His other books include Heart Lamp and Empowerment. (Source: Rangjung Yeshe Publications)
| Citation | Kunsang, Erik Pema, trans. The Mirror of Mindfulness: The Cycle of the Four Bardos. By Tsele Natsok Rangdrol (rtse le sna tshogs rang grol). Kathmandu: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2010. |
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- rtse le sna tshogs rang grol, (རྩེ་ལེ་སྣ་ཚོགས་རང་གྲོལ་). bar do spyi'i don thams cad rnam pa gsal bar byed pa dran pa'i me long, (བར་དོ་སྤྱིའི་དོན་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པ་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པ་དྲན་པའི་མེ་ལོང་). In gsung 'bum sna tshogs rang grol, Vol. 8: 569-690. Gangtok: mgon-po-tshe-brtan, 1979.
- _______. 'chi med rig 'dzin chen po sku mi mngon chos kyi dbyings su gshegs khar gnang ba'i zhal gdams, (འཆི་མེད་རིག་འཛིན་ཆེན་པོ་སྐུ་མི་མངོན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་སུ་གཤེགས་ཁར་གནང་བའི་ཞལ་གདམས་). In gsung 'bum sna tshogs rang grol, Vol. 8: 705-718. Gangtok: mgon-po-tshe-brtan, 1979.
