Dzogchen

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noun

The Great Perfection; the state of contemplation beyond the mind; not unconscious, but mental processes not conditioning of awareness.

OriginTibetan རྫོགས་ཆེན། →
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Meanings

nounDzogchen (uncountable)
  1. TibetanuncountableBuddhismThe Great Perfection; the state of contemplation beyond the mind; not unconscious, but mental processes not conditioning of awareness.

    In Dzogchen, the way of behaving is the key to the practice, not because there are fixed rules as to what one should and should not do, but because the principle is that one must learn to become responsible for oneself, working with one's own awareness.

    1996, Kloṅ-chen-pa Dri-med-ʼod-zer, Dzogchen: The Self-perfected State, page 124
  2. TibetanuncountableBuddhismThe corresponding teachings found in Nyingma and the non-Buddhist Bonpo.

Origin

  1. Tibetanརྫོགས་ཆེན།
  2. EnglishDzogchen

From Tibetan རྫོགས་ཆེན། (rdzogs chen).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 大圓滿 /大圆满
  • 大圓滿 /大圆满 (Dàyuánmǎn)Buddhist teachings
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