Bücher von Choegyal Namkhai Norbu

"The Dzogchen teaching is a living knowledge that is transmitted and applied. It is not reserved for spiritual adepts. The teaching is useful for those who want to live agreeably. For someone with strong faith, it is extremely useful. Even those who do not believe in anything and think that nothing exists after death could find a more peaceful life through it. To enjoy tranquility, you must have experience of the state of knowledge and know how to relax. When you discover your true condition and actually find yourself in it, you finally understand the real meaning of relaxation. The Dzogchen teaching is a way of relaxing totally, so you can understand why the learning, application, and practice of Dzogchen is indispensable for every individual." - Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

One thousand years ago, Gampopa, the illustrious heart son of Tibet's great yogin Milarepa, essentialized the entire Buddhist path in a concise set of pith instructions that became known as the Four Dharmas of Gampopa. Since that time, this profound teaching has been used by many eminent masters as a vehicle for imparting the key points of Buddhist practice, including, in the fourteenth century, the incomparable Longchenpa, whose brilliant exposition of the Four Dharmas illuminates the culmination of the path from a Dzogchen perspective. The Light of the Sun presents a new translation of Longchenpa's Precious Mala of the Four Dharmas, alongside the original Tibetan text, with the lucid, accessible, and relevant commentary of contemporary Dzogchen master Choegyal Namkhai Norbu. Born in eastern Tibet in 1938, Choegyal Namkhai Norbu is an internationally known Dzogchen teacher and author as well as an eminent scholar of the history and culture of Tibet. He studied with renowned masters of various Tibetan Buddhist traditions at important monasteries and colleges, demonstrating exceptional capacity to learn and receiving degrees in both philosophy and letters and traditional medicine. In 1960, he emigrated to Italy as a professor of Tibetology, where about a decade later he began to give instructions to a growing following of Western students, initially on Yantra Yoga and subsequently on Dzogchen, the Total Perfection teachings of the Tibetan spiritual traditions. He is the founder of the International Dzogchen Community, created to encourage the teaching and practice of the Dzogchen point of view and meditation methods, and travels worldwide giving teachings and speaking at international conferences. A prolific author of books on Dzogchen, Yantra Yoga, and Tibetan history, medicine, and culture, he also founded ASIA and the Shang Shung Institute, two nonprofit organizations dedicated to supporting the Tibetan people and preserving Tibetan culture.

First Integrative Medicine Conference - Mental Disorders And Dementia: A Dialogue Between Conventional, Homeopathic, Tibetan, And Chinese MedicinesBarcelona, Spain, January 2014The aim of this three-day event, the first Integrative Medicine Conference in Barcelona, Spain, was to find a meeting point between the various medical disciplines present in the cultures of our planet: Western medicine, both homeopathic and allopathic, and Eastern medicine, in particular Tibetan and Chinese medicine. Although their theoretical base and technical tools are different, all of these disciplines have as their common aim the person's health in all its various aspects. A dialogue and comparison without preconceptions should be an enriching encounter for all.1. Prof. Dr. Namkhai Norbu: Total Integration: Beyond the Relative Health Condition 2. Dr. Phuntsog Wangmo: Bridging Eastern and Western Medicine 3. Dr. Paolo Roberti di Sarsina: Traditional and Nonconventional Medicine: A Multi-Contextual Approach 4. Ms. Pepa Ninou & Dr. Imma Nogués: The Approach to Healthcare within the National Values Plan of Catalonia5. Dr. Thubten Phuntsok: Introduction to Mental Disorders According to Traditional Tibetan Medicine6. Dr. Teresa Herrerías: Homeopathic Medicine: Levels of Therapy7. Dr. Li Qilin: The Influence of Emotions on the Energy of Organs According to Traditional Chinese Medicine8. Dr. Carlos Enrique Ramos: Psychology and Integral Psychotherapies9. Dr. Estela Aguirre Beale: Mental Disorders from a Psychiatric Perspective10. Dr. Ishar Dalmau i Santamaria: Integrative Medicine: An Experience of Research and Education in Barcelona11. Dr. Herrerías: Homeopathy and Mental Disorders: Personal Clinical Experience12. Dr. Phuntsog Wangmo: The Treatment of Mental Disorders According to Tibetan Medicine13. Dr. Sergio Abanades León: Personal Experience of Integrative Medicine in Neuropsychiatric Disorders14. Ms. Neus Rodríguez: Psychosocial Intervention in Dementia: The Uszhheimer Program. Documentary on Alzheimer's Disease, Winner of the 2013 Solé Tura Award 15. Dr. Guillem Martí: Dementia Spectrum: Dealing with the Ill Person16. Dr. Lobsang Tenzin: The Traditional Tibetan Medicine Approach to the Western Concept of Dementia17. Dr. Francisco Barnosell Pi: Differential Diagnosis in Dementia or Schizophrenia by Applying an Integrative Medicine Approach: A Personal View

This summa of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu¿s researches is dedicated first and foremost to his fellow countrymen and women and to Tibetan youth in particular. The text was originally conceived as a set of university lectures that Chögyal Namkhai Norbu was invited to give at the University of Nationalities in Beijing in 1988, forming a first abridged version of The Light of Kailashsubsequently enlarged by the author after further research; the manuscript through meticulous selection and a critical use and analysis of a vast array of literary and frequently unpublished sources became a work of 1,900 pages divided in three volumes. The first volume, ¿The Early Period, the History of Ancient Zhang Zhung,¿ considers the rise of early human generations and the Bon lineages of ancient Zhang Zhung, its dynasties, language, and culture. The second volume, ¿The History of the Intermediate Period: Tibet and Zhang Zhung,¿ is focused upon human generations, the Bonpo lineages, the spread of Bon during the lifetimes of the first Tibetan monarchs, the dynasties, written language, and civilization of ancient Tibet, as well as upon the reigns of specific kings, the Bon religion, and Bonpo religious figures (Dran-pa Nam-mkhä in particular) of Zhang Zhung during that period. The third volume, ¿The History of the Later Period: Tibet,¿ is concerned with an assessment of the genealogies, Bonpo lineages, royal dynasties (from the first monarch gNyä-khri bTsan-po until the forty-fifth monarch Khri-dar-ma ¿U-dum-btsan), language, and civilization of Tibet. This amazing trilogy, aptly named The Light of Kailash, offers an open, daring, holistic, unbiased approach to the study of the cultural and spiritual heritage of Tibet and to the understanding of the origin of this fascinating and endangered civilization.