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Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle

Dzogchen as the Culmination of the Mahayana

By: Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo

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Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle

Dzogchen as the Culmination of the Mahayana

By: Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo

The first English translation of a classic treatise on how the Tibetan practice of Dzogchen, or Great Perfection, is in fact the culmination of the path of Mahayana Buddhism. Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo wrote this treatise in the eleventh century during the renaissance of Buddhism in Tibet that was spurred by the influx of new translations of Indian Buddhist texts, tantras, and esoteric transmissions from India. For political and religious reasons, adherents of the “new schools” of Tibetan Buddhism fostered by these new translations cast the older tradition of lineages and transmissions as impure and decadent. Rongzompa composed the work translated here in order to clearly and definitively articulate how Dzogchen was very much in line with the wide variety of sutric and tantric teachings espoused by all the Tibetan schools. Using the kinds of philosophic and linguistic analyses favored by the new schools, he demonstrates that the Great Perfection is indeed the culmination and maturation of the Mahāyāna, the Great Vehicle. The central topic of the work is the notion of illusory appearance, for when one realizes deeply that all appearances are illusory, one realizes also that all appearances are in that respect equal. The realization of the equality of all phenomena is said to be the Great Perfection approach to the path, which frees one from both grasping at, and rejecting, appearances. However, for those unable to remain effortlessly within the natural state, in the final chapter Rongzompa also describes how paths with effort are included in the Great Perfection approach.

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1611809614

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Establishing Appearances as Divine

Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity

By: Heidi I. Koppl,Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo

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Establishing Appearances as Divine

Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity

By: Heidi I. Koppl,Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo

A highly esteemed Buddhist treatise on realizing your divine nature. This concise treatise by the eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist philosopher Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo sets out to prove the provocative point that everything that appears is actually deity manifest. Many books on Tibetan Buddhism address the important themes of mind training, compassion, and proper conduct, but this book goes beyond that in its aim to bring the reader face to face with his or her divine and pure nature. Transformation not only of one's identity but also of one's environment is an important principle in Tantric Buddhist philosophy. In Tantric scriptures one is instructed to visualize oneself as a deity, a divine identity who resides in a perfect sphere. By repeatedly training in this visualization, one perfects the transformation and ultimately becomes the deity itself. Establishing Appearances as Divine seeks to unravel the interplay between rationality, truth, and divinity, bringing to light the view that underlies Tantric Buddhist practices.

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Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle

Dzogchen as the Culmination of the Mahayana

By: Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo

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Dzogchen as the Culmination of the Mahayana

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Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle

Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle

Establishing Appearances as Divine

Establishing Appearances as Divine

Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle

Entering the Way of the Great Vehicle

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