Dzogchen (Tibetan: རྫོགས་ཆེན, Wylie: rdzogs chen, "Great Perfection" or "Great Completion"), also known as atiyoga (utmost yoga), is a tradition of teachings...
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In Dzogchen, the ground or base (Tibetan: གཞི, Wylie: gzhi) is the primordial state. It is an essential component of the Dzogchen tradition for both the...
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Dzogchen (Wylie: rdzogs chen, "Great Perfection" or "Great Completion"), also known as atiyoga (utmost yoga), is a tradition of teachings in Indo-Tibetan...
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Dzogchen Monastery (Tibetan: རྫོགས་ཆེན་དགོན།, Wylie: rdzogs chen dgon) is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism...
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Bon (category Dzogchen lineages)
manifestation (lhun-grub). The Bon Dzogchen understanding of reality is explained by Powers as follows: In Bön Dzogchen texts, the world is said to be an...
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Dzogchen Rinpoche (Tibetan: ཛོགས་ཆེན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, Wylie: rdzogs chen rin po che) is the head lama of Dzogchen Monastery, one of the largest monasteries...
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Namkhai Norbu (redirect from International Dzogchen Community)
8 December 1938 – 27 September 2018) was a Tibetan Buddhist master of Dzogchen and a professor of Tibetan and Mongolian language and literature at Naples...
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In Dzogchen, the view (Tib. tawa) is one of the Three Dharmas of the Path of Dzogchen. The other two dharmas of the path are practice (gompa) and conduct...
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Dzogchen Beara is a Tibetan Buddhist retreat centre on the Beara Peninsula near Allihies in West Cork in Ireland established by Sogyal Rinpoche in 1987...
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Nyingma (category Dzogchen lineages)
of the "Great Perfection" (Dzogchen) as the highest of all Buddhist teachings. As such, the Nyingmas consider the Dzogchen teachings to be the most direct...
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Dzogchen practice refers to the various contemplative practices which are part of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions of Dzogchen ("Great Perfection"). Dzogchen...
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The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop (Karma Sungrap Ngedön Tenpa Gyaltsen, born 1965) is an abbot of Dzogchen Monastery, founder and spiritual director of Nalandabodhi...
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of karma.[citation needed] Other schools of thought in Buddhism (e.g., Dzogchen), consider perceived reality literally unreal. As Chögyal Namkhai Norbu...
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Surya Das (section Founding of the Dzogchen Foundation)
Nyingma master of the non-sectarian Rime movement, with whom he founded the Dzogchen Foundation and Center in 1991. He received Nyoshul Khenpo's authorization...
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Longchenpa (category Dzogchen lamas)
lineage of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) over the other Dzogchen traditions. He is also responsible for the scholastic systematization of Dzogchen thought...
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Gankyil (section Three cycles of Nyingmapa Dzogchen)
in the Dzogchen teachings, but perhaps most particularly it shows the inseparability of the Base, the Path, and the Fruit. And since Dzogchen, the Great...
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Tibetan Buddhism (section Dzogchen and Mahamudra)
Naropa, as well as methods that are seen as transcending tantra, like Dzogchen. Its main goal is Buddhahood. The primary language of scriptural study...
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Dzogchen Ranyak Patrul Rinpoche (Tibetan: རྫོགས་ཆེན་ར་ཉག་དཔལ་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ, Wylie: rdzogs chen ra nyag dpal sprul rin po che) (born 1963) is a Tibetan...
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Ngöndro (section In Dzogchen)
Vajrayana sādhanā which are held to engender realization and the embodiment of Dzogchen, Heruka and Mahamudra. Nevertheless, Vajrayana masters are careful to point...
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In Dzogchen, sky gazing (Wylie: nam mkha' ar gtad, THDL: namkha arté) is one of the core practices of trekchö as well as tögal. It is part of the Nyingma...
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Tögal (redirect from Four visions (Dzogchen))
In Dzogchen, tögal (Tibetan: ཐོད་རྒལ་, Wylie: thod rgal) literally means "crossing, surpassing the skull." It is sometimes translated as 'leapover,' 'direct...
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Svabhava (category Dzogchen)
the Ratnagotravibhāga), Vaishnavism (e.g., the writings of Ramanuja) and Dzogchen (e.g. in the seventeen tantras). In the nondual Advaita Vedānta yoga text...
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Mind teachings of Tibet (category Dzogchen)
primarily associated with the mahamudra traditions of the Kagyu and the dzogchen traditions of the Nyingma. The mind teachings of Tibet are generally believed...
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Rainbow body (category Dzogchen)
In Dzogchen, rainbow body (Tibetan: འཇའ་ལུས་, Wylie: 'ja' lus, Jalü or Jalus) is a level of realization. This may or may not be accompanied by the 'rainbow...
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Ground (unit), a unit of area used in India Ground (Dzogchen), the primordial state in Dzogchen Ground surface, often on metals, created by various grinding...
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Yogachara Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism Chinese Esoteric Buddhism Shingon Dzogchen Theravada Navayana Early Buddhist schools Pre-sectarian Buddhism Basic...
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Rigpa (category Dzogchen)
In Dzogchen, rigpa (Tibetan: རིག་པ་, Wylie: rig pa; Skt. vidyā; "knowledge") is knowledge of the ground. The opposite of rigpa is ma rigpa (avidyā, ignorance)...
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Adi-Buddha (category Dzogchen)
personification of the ground or basis (ghzi) in Dzogchen thought. Namkhai Norbu explains that the Dzogchen idea of the Adi-Buddha Samantabhadra "should be...
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Vajrasattva (section Dzogchen)
Ghanavyūha sūtra. In the Nyingma canon, Vajrasattva also appears in various Dzogchen texts, such as the Kulayarāja Tantra and The Mirror of the Heart of Vajrasattva...
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Garab Dorje (category Dzogchen lamas)
receive the complete direct transmission teachings of Sutra, Tantra and Dzogchen. The circumstances of his birth are shrouded in different interpretations...
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