The Blazing Jewel
An Explanation of the Four-Session Guru Yoga of the Glorious and Great Karmapa
དཔལ་ཀརྨ་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་བརྟེན་པའི་ཐུན་བཞིའི་བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་བཤད་པ་ནོར་བུ་འབར་བ།
Eighth Karmapa, Kyodrak Khenpo Ghawang
Translation: Lama Eric Trinle Thaye
The Blazing Jewel (དཔལ་ཀརྨ་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་བརྟེན་པའི་ཐུན་བཞིའི་བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་བཤད་པ་ནོར་བུ་འབར་བ།) combines detailed instructions for The Four-Session Guru Yoga practice along with a word-by-word commentary on the prayer. This is especially helpful in the genre of Tibetan verse where words and phrases are often abbreviated to maintain meter and many grammatical particles are omitted all together. It is, therefore, a unique and deeply beneficial contribution to the literature on this quintessential practice of the Karma Kagyu. All practitioners of this text are sure to benefit from the clear and insightful explanations contained within.
