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Dzogchen

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

Noun

Dzogchen (uncountable)

  1. (Tibetan) The 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. (Tibetan) The corresponding teachings found in Nyingmapa and the non-Buddhist Bonpo.

Origin of Dzogchen

From Tibetan རྫོགས་ཆེན། (rdzogs chen).

Questions about Dzogchen

What does Dzogchen mean?
Dzogchen means the Great Perfection; the state of contemplation beyond the mind; not unconscious, but mental processes not conditioning of awareness.
What part of speech is Dzogchen?
Dzogchen is a noun.

Words near Dzogchen in the dictionary

  1. Dzmitry
  2. Dzmitryi
  3. Dzmitryy
  4. dzo
  5. Dzodinka
  6. Dzogchen
  7. Dzomi
  8. dzomo
  9. dzomos
  10. dzong
  11. Dzongkha

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