Stephen Gethin: Book Launch for The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Mind

Lopen Karma Phuntsho interviews translator Stephen Gethin and discusses the new book from Padmakara Translation Group, "The Natural Openness and Freedom of the Mind: A Treasure Tantra of the Great Perfection'" by Deshek Lingpa with commentary by Khangsar Tenpa'i Wangchuk.

In September, Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche offered the oral transmission, or lung, for this incredibly clear text of Dzogchen that, in the eighth century, Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyal sealed in the mind of Yudra Nyingpo, one of Guru Rinpoche’s twenty-five disciples. The text was rediscovered as a mind treasure by an emanation of Yudra Nyingpo, Deshek Lingpa (1956-2020), also known as Tulku Lhatsam or Tertön Padma Jigme Dorje, who was the abbot of both two monasteries in Golok.

Shambhala Publications just released a translation of this text, which includes an extensive commentary by Khangsar Tenpa’i Wangchuk, one of the most revered Nyingmapa lamas of the twentieth century whose entire collected works the Padmakara Translation Group is translating.

Stephen Gethin studied veterinary medicine at Cambridge University, where he was also awarded a choral exhibition. After a number of years in professional practice, he spent much of the 1980s undertaking two three-year retreats in France, where he now lives and, as a founding member of the Padmakara Translation Group, continues to translate. He was a Tsadra Foundation Translation Fellow from 2005 to 2024.

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