A Lullaby to Awaken the Heart (Hardcover) by Karl BrunnhĂślzl

A key Dzogchen text-available together with its Tibetan commentaries, including from the fifteenth Karmapa-from a preeminent translator.

The Aspiration Prayer of Samantabhadra , one of the most famous and often-recited Dzogchen texts, is at once an entreaty by the primordial buddha, Samantabhadra, that all sentient beings recognize the nature of their minds and thus become buddhas, and also a wake-up call by our own buddha nature itself. This monumental text outlines the profound view of Dzogchen in a nutshell and, at the same time, provides clear instructions on how to discover the wisdom of a buddha in the very midst of afflictions.

In this volume, Karl Brunnh∂lzl offers translations of three versions of the Aspiration Prayer and accompanies them with translations of the commentaries by Jigm© Lingpa, the Fifteenth Karmapa, and Ts√ºltrim Sangpo. He offers further contextualization with his rich annotation and appendices, which include additional translation from Jigm© Lingpa, Longchenpa, and Patrul Rinpoche. This comprehensive, comprehensible book illuminates this profound text and greatly furthers our understanding of Dzogchen-and of our own nature.