“I rejoice and praise Acarya Malcolm Smith’s direct translation from Tibetan into English the Aural Lineage of Vimalamitra from the cycle of the Pellucid Transcendent State of the Great Perfection. Since it is certainly of great benefit to those faithful practitioners of Dharma around the world, I sincerely wish that once they have realized the secret of the mind in dependence on all of the book’s instruction which appear through the intimate instructions of the guru, they will be able to accomplish liberation into the body of light in one life time.”

– Tulku Dagpa Rinpoche

“An inspired translation of one of the classics of the Great Perfection, unveiling the extraordinary tradition of the 8th century pandit Vimalamitra. This book introduces the reader to the secret visionary instructions of Thogal practice, the core of Dzogchen itself. Extensively based on the corpus of the Seventeen Tantras, the text reveals the entire Path of the Great Perfection in a fluid and inspiring style which carefully follows the original.”

– Jean-Luc Achard, author of The Six Lamps