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| == Other Information ==
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| *'''From [[Wondrous_Dance_of_Illusion/Introduction|Wondrous Dance of Illusion]] pp XXIV-XXV'''
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| I (Heidi) would like to thank Kyabje Tulku Sonam Chöpel, student of
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| Orgyen Chemchok Rinpoche (a close disciple of Khenpo Ngakchung),
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| for granting me the reading transmission; Khenpo Sangye of Gyarong for
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| countless hours of explanations at the outset of the translation; Lhagang
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| Khenpo Tashi of Minyak for his patient guidance throughout the first
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| draft; Lama Tsering Gyaltsen of Corvallis for his constant encouragement
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| and clarifications; Tulku Tubzang of Palyul for advice and explanations of
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| cryptic passages; Gyarong Khenpo Lhabum for help with local dialects;
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| Lobpon Jigme Tutop Namgyal for answering many questions and for clarifying
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| the restriction on the text; Jules Levinson and Douglas Duckworth
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| for invaluable help on the Madhyamaka sections; Joseph Bailey and Joseph
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| Wagner for encouragement and monetary donations to the project; Joshua
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| Hayes and Victor Miller for helpful feedback on the introduction; and my
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| dear vajra sister Sarah Jacoby for constant moral support and excellent,
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| detailed feedback on the entire manuscript.
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| In answer to my fervent prayers, Tulku Thondup Rinpoche gave endlessly
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| of his time and unfathomable knowledge, answering countless questions
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| and clarifying difficult points throughout the manuscript, as well as
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| generously composing a foreword for the book. Words cannot express my
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| gratitude for his scholarship and support. Also in answer to my prayers,
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| translator and Tibetologist Dr. Gyurme Dorje edited the entire manuscript
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| line by line against two editions of the Tibetan original, vastly improving
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| the accuracy of the translation. He systematized terminology, standardized
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| hundreds of text titles, identified countless personal and place names, corrected
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| and added hundreds of endnotes, and prepared a colossal bibliography
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| of works cited by the author. I am deeply grateful for his tremendous
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| efforts.
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| Cortland Dahl, president of Tergar International, was a source of constant
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| encouragement, and he secured funding for the project from an
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| anonymous benefactor, enabling me to dedicate myself fully to the project.
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| For this, as well as two special grants generously awarded by the Khyentse
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| Foundation, I am inexpressibly grateful. I would also like to thank my
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| cotranslator, Jakob Leschly, who has been an exemplary vajra brother and a
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| source of inestimable knowledge, insight, support, and laughter. Without
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| him, I never would have had the courage to keep going with this project.
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| I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my parents, Kirk and
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| Susan Nevin, and my sister, Liv Gifford, for their constant love and support.
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| Most of all, I wish to thank my selfless husband and vajra brother, Gyarong
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| Tsultrim Yampel, who married me shortly after I began this translation and
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| saw it through to the end, keeping bread on the table year after year, helping
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| me with countless passages, and cracking the whip of diligence over my lazy
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| back. This book couldn’t have happened without him. And a warm thank
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| you to our sweet children, Clara and Tashi, whose births and early years
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| were interwoven with this project.
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