New Book. Radiant Aspiration: the Butterlamp Prayer Lamp of Aspiration

Chimed Rigdzin Rinpoche offered 100,000 butterlamps every year while reciting this prayer which he composed and James translated and commented on. The book includes an easy-to-read Recitation Format.

This is what is written on the back cover of the book.

In this butterlamp prayer the flow of light up as an offering to the buddhas and out as a blessing to all beings is the basis for exploring the co-emergence of the finite and the infinite of samsara and nirvana.  The text of the prayer is given in recitation format along with the Sutra of  the Story of the Lamp of King Golden Hand, and his Aspiration.

Giving and receiving is the pulsation of exchange that connects all life. Breathing in, breathing out, blood entering the heart, then exiting – the ceaseless flow of interaction is life itself. 

This prayer was written by Chimed Rigdzin while in retreat at Tso Pema in India. It arose as a gesture of love and longing for his teacher, Tulku Tsorlo whom he’d had to leave in Tibet.

The commentary by James Low highlights how to integrate these illuminating verses into the practice of staying present in the turbulence of everyday life.

Chimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, also known as C R Lama, and as Zilnon Lingpa (1922-2002), was an important lama in the Khordong and Byangter lineages of the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism.  He was both a scholar and a yogi and inspired many people to intense practice.

James Low has been a practitioner, teacher and translator of Dzogchen and Tibetan Buddhism for many years. He is a psychotherapist working in an N.H.S. hospital and in private practice. He has trained in many models of therapy which he now teaches in a number of institutions.  His books have been translated into several European languages.  For more about James Low, his books and his other work see www.simplybeing.co.uk.

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