The paramount teachings of the most illustrious teachers of Tibet and India who have transmitted their teachings to the peoples of Occident are the base of this book. In the general introduction and the textual annotations, there have been incorporated commentary on complementary teachings which were orally transmitted through a long line of Gurus of the Kargyutpa school to the author's own Tibetan Guru the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup.