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Malcolm Smith: Dzogchen, Sakya, and Translation (#148)


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This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features host Daniel Aitken joined by Malcolm Smith—translator in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and long-time practitioner of Dzogchen. Malcolm Smith has been a student of the Great Perfection teachings since 1992, his main Dzogchen teachers being Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and the late Kunzang Dechen Lingpa. He is a veteran of a traditional three-year solitary Tibetan Buddhist retreat, a published translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts, and was awarded the Ācārya degree by the Sakya Institute in 2004. He graduated in 2009 from Shang Shung Institute’s School of Tibetan Medicine, and has worked on translations for renowned lamas since 1992, including H.H. the Sakya Trichen Rinpoche, Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche, Kunzang Dechen Lingpa, Khenpo Migmar Tseten, Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche, Khenchen Könchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche, and more.

In this lively discussion, Malcolm and Daniel talk about:

  • Malcolm’s new translation on Sakya Lamdre, Sakya: The Path with Its Result;
  • yantra yoga (trul-khor) and Dzogchen in the Sakya yogic tradition;
  • translating the commentary on the Seventeen Tantras of the Great Perfection;
  • Candrakīrti and the Prāsaṅgika Mādhyamaka view in Dzogchen;
  • systems of medicine and elemental compatibility in the tantras;  
  • trekchö, tögal, and two types of dharmatā in Dzogchen teachings;
  • and much more.
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