The Confession of Downfalls contains translations along with extensive commentaries to the two main sutra and tantra practices of mental purification in Tibetan Buddhism, the Sutra of Three Heaps and the visualization and mantra recitation of Vajrasattva.
The commentaries include excerpts from a Sastra by the Indian master Nagarjuna to the Sutra of Three Heaps and both practices are supplemented by verbally transmitted commentaries from The Tibetan lamas Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, Ceshe Rabten, Tubten Zopa Rinpoche and Gegen Kyentse.
This volume on the two fundamental methods of Buddhist psychological purification is being reprinted here under a new title Confession of Downfalls. This change has been necessitated by suggestions we have received from our Translation Department and a number of practitioners that the original title was quite unclear and misleading. Included are general explanations on the main sutra and tantra forms of mental purification: the Confession Sutra and the Practice of Vajrasattva.
This comprehensive presentation has been edited and translated by Brian C. Beresford of our Translation Bureau while working closely under the guidance of several Tibetan Lamas and translators. He has extensively annotated the translations with references to other related publications together with explanations and definitions drawn from traditional Tibetan sources in order to clarify newly-coined English terms.
It is hoped that this meditational manual, in shedding more light on the implication behind the rich language of Buddhist philosophy, will be of help to others engaging in the task of translation as we as provide the general reader with the deeper insight into the scope of Tibetan Buddhist thought and practice.
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