dzogchen

• “One etymology of the term dzogchen is that “dzog” (completeness) refers to all phenomena – those that appear and exist in either samsara or nirvana – being complete (in the sense that they do not need conventional existence added or true existence taken away) and thus already perfect according to a correct view of voidness.”

  A Commentary on A Root Text for Gelug-Kagyu Mahamudra

• “These texts were of the highest tantra teachings called dzogchen, the great completeness.”

  Introductory History of the Five Tibetan Traditions of Buddhism and Bon

• “In those texts, however, he is clearly using the name "dzogchen" to refer to certain specific cases and not to all of dzogchen in general.”

  The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Four

• “Before he did so, however, he hid various texts, concerning the advanced meditation system called “dzogchen (rdzogs-chen)” in the walls of the monastery.”

  A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 1 The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet

• “In dzogchen meditation [in which there is no differentiation between total absorption on pure awareness, rigpa, and a subsequent attainment or realization], at the same time as we are totally absorbed on the total absence of the object to be refuted, the appearances of things actually do spontaneously arise.”

  A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Six: Deepest Bodhichitta, Continued

• “For especially compelling extraneous mental activity, we supplement the letting-go procedure with a dzogchen method.”

  Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 2 Quieting the Mind and Generating Care

• “In this way, we see things to exist like an illusion in dzogchen practice as well.”

  A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Six: Deepest Bodhichitta, Continued

• “The Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism emphasizes the former method, while the Nyingma school teaches the latter in its dzogchen (great completeness) system.”

  Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 2 Quieting the Mind and Generating Care

• “The dzogchen system describes the same phenomenon when explaining that mind's natural concern automatically leads to the activity of producing appearances.”

  Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 9 Accessing the Natural Talents of Our Mind and Heart

• “But since others may hear such words or see such gestures without experiencing, as a result, a face-to-face meeting with rigpa, our own meeting of rigpa face to face arises dependently on many additional factors, including inspiration from the dzogchen master.”

  Inspiration (���Blessings���) and Its Relation to Mantras and Oral Transmission

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