The Nyung Nä retreat is a two-day intensive practice that includes taking the 24-hour Mahayana precepts with the addition of complete fasting and silence on the second day. Doing even one Nyung Nä or "abiding in retreat" for just two days is said to be as effective as three months of other purification practices and is extremely powerful for healing illness, purifying negative karma, and opening the heart to compassion.
Contents Include:
-The Preparatory Ceremony
-Calling the Lama from Afar
-Taking the Restoring and Purifying Ordination
-Requesting the Lineage Gurus
-The Foundation of All Good Qualities
-Request to the Supreme Compassionate One
-Invocation of the Merit Field
-The Bodhisattva's Confession of Moral Downfalls
-How to Meditate on Self-Generation
-Meditation on the Front-Generation
-The Principal Practice of Praise
-Offering the Tormas
-Praises to the Dharma Protectors
-Offering an Ablution
-Verses of Auspiciousness
Appendices:
1: Arranging the Essential Bases
2: Instructions
3: Notes about the Mahayana Ordination
4: Mudras for the Nyung Na Practice
5: Modes of Practice
6: Notes on Mantra Recitation
7: How to Perform the Offering Bath
8: Avalokiteshvara
9: Bhikshuni Lakshmi
10: Notes on the Long Dharani
11: About the Author, Lozang Kalsang Gyatso
-Notes
-His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Dedication
-Chenrezig Mandala (removable line drawing)
Spiral bound, 182 pages, 2005 edition