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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 the First Panchen Lama Lozang-chokyi-gyeltsen 2006
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These texts were of the highest tantra teachings called dzogchen, the great completeness.
Introductory History of the Five Tibetan Traditions of Buddhism and Bon 2000
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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 1997
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The dzogchen system describes the same phenomenon when explaining that mind's natural concern automatically leads to the activity of producing appearances.
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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.
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The Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism emphasizes the former method, while the Nyingma school teaches the latter in its dzogchen (great completeness) system.
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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 2009
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For especially compelling extraneous mental activity, we supplement the letting-go procedure with a dzogchen method.
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In this way, we see things to exist like an illusion in dzogchen practice as well.
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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 2008
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