The Vajra Essence has special relevance for us today in the West; In one of Dildjom Lingpa's dreams, a devaputra, a celestial being named Dungi Zurphu, prophesied that the benefit from his profound hidden treasures, his termas, would go west, saying, 'Those deserving to be tamed by you dwell in human cities to the west." With the wish to help fulfill that prophecy, the present translation of his hidden treasure the Vajra Essence was made under the guidance of the Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche, who has been teaching in the West since 1972