Dzogchen

Dzogchen is a state. The Dzogchen state is said to be the natural, primordial state of every sentient being, including every human being. When an individual is able to maintain this specific state continually, he or she no longer experiences dukkha, i.e., feelings of discontent, tension, and anxiety in everday life. (Compare with Nirvana. For more details see Nirvana and Dzogchen.) Wylie: rdzogs chen standard Tibetan contraction of rdzogs pa chen po "Dzogchen" has been translated variousl ...

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Dzogchen: Encyclopedia II - Dzogchen - The Practice of Dzogchen In Dzogchen, self-liberation is achieved by discovering or recognizing one's own primordial mental state and remaining in that natural state of primordial awareness in which all phenomena are experienced without creating karma through reaction, attachment, or conceptual labelling. Sogyal Rinpoche, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and other teachers provide different practical sets of instructions for the practice of Dzogchen. The central practice of Dzogchen teaching is Dzogchen contemplation. Silent and prolonged meditation is also us ...

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Dzogchen: : List of Buddhist temples

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Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - Changchub Dorje

Changchub Dorje was a teacher of Dzogchen and practitioner of Tibetan medicine. He organized and lead a community of Dzogchen practitioners in Nyalagar, East Tibet. Other related archivesDzogchen

Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - Nondualism

Nondualism is the belief that dualism or dichotomy are illusory phenomenae. Examples of dualisms include self/other, mind/body, male/female, good/evil, active/passive, and many others. A nondual philosophical or religious perspective or theory maintains that there is no fundamental distinction between mind and matter, or that the entire phenomenological world is an illusion (with the reality being described variously as ...

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Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - Vajrayana

Also known as Tantric Buddhism, Mantrayana, Tantrayana, Esoteric Buddhism, Diamond Vehicle or True Words Sect. (Secret) Mantra vehicle is the name most commonly used in Tibetan scriptures. Vajrayāna Buddhism is often viewed as the third major 'vehicle' (Yana) of Buddhism, alongside the Hinayana and Mahayana. The Vajrayana is an extension of Mahayana Buddhism consisting not of philosophical differences, but rather the adoption of ad ...

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Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - Mahayana

Mahāyāna (literally "great vehicle"; from the Indian language of Sanskrit. Chinese: 大乘, Dàshèng; Japanese: 大乗, Daijō; Vietnamese: Đại Thừa; Korean:대승, Dae-seung) is one of the major branches of Buddhism. (See Yana for the classification of Buddhism into vehicles, and Schools of Buddhism for further information.) Mahayana originated in the Indian subcontinent, and some of the areas in which it is practiced today are India, China, Tibet, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan. From Mahayana d ...

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Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - Vairotsana

Vairotsana (rnam par snang mdzad lo tsa ba). The great and unequalled translator during the reign of King Trisong Deutsen. Vairotsana, (also pronounced be-ro-tsa-na), was recognized by Padmakara as a reincarnation of an Indian pandita. He was among the first seven monks and was sent to India to study with Shri Singha. Shri Singha in turn entrusted Vairotsana with the task of propagating the Mind Section and Space Section of Dzogchen in Tibet. He is one of the three main masters to bring the Dzogchen teachings to Tibet, the two others

Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - Nyingma

The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism (the other three being the Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug). "Nyingma" literally means "ancient," and is often referred to as the "school of the ancient translations" or the "old school" because it founded on the first translations of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into Tibetan, in the eighth century. In modern times the Nyingma linea ...

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Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - Mahamudra

Mahamudra (Sanskrit: great seal' or 'great symbol) or Chagchen (Tibetan) is a method of direct introduction to the nature of Mind (or Buddha-nature) and the practice of stabilizing the accompanying transcendental realization. It is practiced by the Kagyu, Gelug and Sakya schools of Tibetan Buddhism and possibly also by derivative Vajrayana orders in China, Russia and Japan. The Nyingma and Bön traditions and their derivatives practise a corollary but distinc ...

Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - Shentong

Shentong view, also sometimes called “Yogacara Madhyamika,” is a philosophical sub-school found in Tibetan Buddhism, holding that the nature of mind is "empty of other" (i.e., empty of all qualities other than an inherent, ineffable nature), in contrast to the “Rangtong” view of Prasangika Madhyamika, which holds that all phenomena are unequivocally empty of self-nature, without positing anything beyond that. According to Shentong, the emptiness of ultimate reality should not be characterized in the same way as the emptiness o ...

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Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - Urgyen Trinley Dorje

Urgyen Trinley Dorje (Wylie transliteration: U-rgyan Phrin-las Rdo-rje) (b. June 26, 1985), also spelled Ogyen Trinley Dorje (and Orgyen Trinley Dorje & Ugyen Trinley Dorje) is recognized by many followers as the 17th Karmapa, leader of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in Kham, Tibet to largely nomadic parents, Urgyen Trinley Dorje is said to have identified himself to family members as the Karmapa early in childhood. He was seven years old before he was recognized by a search par ...

Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - Bön

Bön has typically been described as the shamanistic religion in Tibet before the arrival of Buddhism in the 7th century. With the recent exile of many Bönpo lamas to India, however, a more complex description of Bön is emerging and is now being considered by Western scholars. Bön - Historical phases of Bön. According to the Bönpo themselves, the Bön religion has actually gone through three distinct phases: Animistic Bön, Yungdrung or Eternal Bön, and New Bön.

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Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - Yana Buddhism

Yana is a Sanskrit word with a range of meanings including nouns such as vehicle, journey, and path; and verbs such as going, moving, riding, and marching. In the Indian religions Buddhism and Hinduism, both yana and marga (road or path) express the metaphor of spiritual practice as a path or journey. Ancient texts in both religions discuss doctrines and practices associated with various yanas. In Buddhism, yana often augments the metaphor of the spiritual path with the idea of various vehicles that convey ...

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Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - Vipassana

Vipassanā (Sanskrit: vipasyanā) is the practice of Insight Meditation. While it is often referred to as Buddhist meditation, the practice taught by the Buddha was non-sectarian, and has a universal application. It does not require conversion to Buddhism. While the meditation practices themselves vary from school to school, the underlying principle is the investigation of phenomena (Sanskrit: dharmas) as they manifest in the five aggregates (Skandha) namely, matter or form (Rupa), sensation or feelings (Vedana), perception (Samjna), mental formations (Saṃskāra) & consciousness (Vijnana). This process lead ...

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Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - List of Buddhist temples

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Dzogchen: Encyclopedia - List of Buddhists

A number of noted individuals have been Buddhists. List of Buddhists - Historical Buddhist thinkers and founders of schools. Individuals are grouped by nationality, except in cases where the vast majority of their influence was felt elsewhere. List of Buddhists - Indian. The Buddha Shakyamuni, Siddhartha Gautama Ananda, Siddhartha's cousin and one of his chief disciples Aryadeva foremost disciple of Nagarjuna, continued the philosophical school of Madhyam ...

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