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    Dzogchen (Tibetan: རྫོགས་ཆེན་, Wylie: rdzogs chen, "Great Completion" or "Great Perfection"), also known as atiyoga (utmost yoga), is a tradition of teachings...
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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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    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 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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    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 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 practice refers to the various contemplative practices which are part of the Tibetan Buddhist traditions of Dzogchen ("Great Perfection"). Dzogchen...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • the 2nd Dzogchen Rinpoche of Tibet. Full nomenclature: Gyurme Thekchok Tenzin Thutop Wangpo Chok Thamchele Nampar Gyalwe De. The Second Dzogchen Rinpoche...
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  • Longdé (redirect from Longde (Dzogchen))
    abhyantaravarga) is the name of one of three scriptural divisions within Dzogchen, which is itself the pinnacle of the ninefold division of practice according...
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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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    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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    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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  • Vāsanā (Sanskrit; Devanagari: वासना) is a behavioural tendency or karmic imprint which influences the present behaviour of a person. It is a technical...
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  • Fourth Dzogchen Rinpoche of Tibet. In 1842 an earthquake hit Tibet and Dorje was responsible for implementing much of the reconstruction of the Dzogchen Monastery...
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