THIS IS A BOOK OF FIVE DIFFERENT TEXTS ON DZOGCHEN

"The five texts translated into English in this book are considered the first transmission of Dzogchen Ati to Tibet. They were transmitted by a Tibetan monk called Vairotsana who distinguished himself not only in the field of translation, emerging as the greatest of the Tibetan lotsawas, but also as a traveler and pilgrim who left the Land of the Snows for the hills of the Hindu Kush to bring back a canon of Dzogchen texts from its closely guarded source. Returning from Oddiyana, where he had received the transmission of Dzogchen Ati from Shri Singha, he immediately translated these five tantras into Tibetan, and they became known as the Five Early Translations (Nga-gyur-nga). They constitute the root and essence of Dzogchen in Tibet-basic, raw Dzogchen precepts that are appropriately designated 'radical Dzogchen'."