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100 1 a| Gönpo, Jamyang,e| author.?| UNAUTHORIZED;

245 10 a| Severance :b| the early practice of Chö : the heart essence of profound meaning /c| by Jamyang Gönpo ; translated, edited, and annotated by Sarah Harding ; foreword by Lodrö Tulku Rinpoche.;

264 1 a| New York, NY, USA :b| Wisdom Publications,c| [2025];

300 a| xxxvi, 234 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| "Severance, or Chö, is the Tibetan Buddhist practice of facing one's fears. In three remarkable texts lucidly translated and introduced by Sarah Harding, the thirteenth-century Severance master Jamyang Gönpo shares advice that goes straight to the heart of both understanding and experiencing the practice. For hundreds of years, Severance has remained essentially an instruction on coping with stressful situations that provoke fear and, beyond that, a way to actively seek out such circumstances in order to test one's realization of perfect wisdom. The single overall directive of the first two texts in this volume-the Heart Essence of Profound Meaning root verses and their commentary, The Big General Guide to Severance-is to seek out and directly confront difficult circumstances. Here, these difficulties are often anxieties related to spirits in the dark of night in haunted places. This practice acts as both a means to recognize emptiness-the lack of intrinsic existence of all phenomena-as well as a testing ground of one's former realizations and studies of that emptiness from the Perfection of Wisdom. The texts are notable for their lack of instruction on ritualized Severance involving body sacrifice, which later works emphasize; in these texts, the heart of Severance is letting go of clinging to the self and reification of existence. And as Jamyang Gönpo was just a generation removed from Machik Lapdrön, the main progenitor of Severance, his methods seem to be closest to her actual teachings. The third translation in this volume, The Seven-Day Severance Retreat Experiential Guide, is a very concise and precise instruction on putting the main intentions of the teachings into practice in the setting of a one-week retreat. The instructions are striking in that they contain no rituals, visualizations, deities, instruments, or liturgies. Jamyang Gönpo shows us how to turn our attention to the very mind of this person who is experiencing fear and the object of that fear-whether fear about demons or sickness or suffering- to see them for what they are. In doing so, we find that joys and sorrows, highs and lows, powers of gods and demons, and demonic obstacles are all mind made"--c| Provided by publisher.;

546 a| Text in English. Translated from Tibetan.;

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Severance : the early practice of Chö : the heart essence of profound meaning / by Jamyang Gönpo ; translated, edited, and annotated by Sarah Harding ; foreword by Lodrö Tulku Rinpoche.

Author/creator	Gönpo, Jamyang author.
Other author	Harding, Sarah, 1951- translator.
Other author	Rinpoche, Lodrö Tulku, writer of foreword.
Format	Book
Publication	New York, NY, USA : Wisdom Publications, [2025]
Description	xxxvi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Spiritual life--Tantric Buddhism. Tantric Buddhism--Tibet Region. --Doctrines.

Abstract	"Severance, or Chö, is the Tibetan Buddhist practice of facing one's fears. In three remarkable texts lucidly translated and introduced by Sarah Harding, the thirteenth-century Severance master Jamyang Gönpo shares advice that goes straight to the heart of both understanding and experiencing the practice. For hundreds of years, Severance has remained essentially an instruction on coping with stressful situations that provoke fear and, beyond that, a way to actively seek out such circumstances in order to test one's realization of perfect wisdom. The single overall directive of the first two texts in this volume-the Heart Essence of Profound Meaning root verses and their commentary, The Big General Guide to Severance-is to seek out and directly confront difficult circumstances. Here, these difficulties are often anxieties related to spirits in the dark of night in haunted places. This practice acts as both a means to recognize emptiness-the lack of intrinsic existence of all phenomena-as well as a testing ground of one's former realizations and studies of that emptiness from the Perfection of Wisdom. The texts are notable for their lack of instruction on ritualized Severance involving body sacrifice, which later works emphasize; in these texts, the heart of Severance is letting go of clinging to the self and reification of existence. And as Jamyang Gönpo was just a generation removed from Machik Lapdrön, the main progenitor of Severance, his methods seem to be closest to her actual teachings. The third translation in this volume, The Seven-Day Severance Retreat Experiential Guide, is a very concise and precise instruction on putting the main intentions of the teachings into practice in the setting of a one-week retreat. The instructions are striking in that they contain no rituals, visualizations, deities, instruments, or liturgies. Jamyang Gönpo shows us how to turn our attention to the very mind of this person who is experiencing fear and the object of that fear-whether fear about demons or sickness or suffering- to see them for what they are. In doing so, we find that joys and sorrows, highs and lows, powers of gods and demons, and demonic obstacles are all mind made"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language	Text in English. Translated from Tibetan.
Issued in other form	Online version: Gönpo, Jamyang. Severance New York, NY, USA : Wisdom, [2025] 9781614299844
LCCN	2024052550
ISBN	9798890700001
ISBN	electronic book

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