Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu & Adriano Clemente & John Shane

Author:Chogyal Namkhai Norbu & Adriano Clemente & John Shane
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 1559390573
Publisher: Snow Lion
Published: 1990-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

In Tibet the cuckoo is considered to be a sign of good fortune and prosperity because it heralds the arrival of spring. When the Tibetan people heard the cuckoo's song they knew that the long cold winter was about to end, and that nature was about to awaken again. Thus the cuckoo's song is compared by Vairochana to the awakening of the presence of the primordial state (rig pa) that became possible with the introduction of the Dzogchen teachings to Tibet.

Over the course of the centuries the Dzogchen teachings have at times been the target of criticism and defamation aimed at them by some Tibetan scholars. One of the ways in which some of these people tried to prove that the Dzogchen texts were not authentic was by suggesting that there were errors of Sanskrit grammar in the titles of many Dzogchen tantras. What this in fact shows is that these denigrators of the Dzogchen teachings did not know of the existence of the language of Oddiyana, from which the tantras were translated into Tibetan by Vairochana and other masters. But the practitioners of Dzogchen have never had any interest in forming a sect, or in defending themselves and getting into arguments with others, because the principal thing in Dzogchen is the state of knowledge, which is not concerned with externals. Today, however, the historical authenticity of the Dzogchen texts can be proved, thanks to certain texts rediscovered among the Tun Huang manuscripts, which are considered original and authentic by all scholars.'

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