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Title: Approaching the Great Perfection: Simultaneous and Gradual Methods of Dzogchen Practice in the Longchen Nyingtig
Language of title: English
Author/Creator: Sam Van Schaik
One Sentence Summary: An extensive analysis of a core tension within Buddhism: does enlightenment develop gradually, or does it come all at once?

Description: Researcher and scholar Sam van Schaik introduces the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, looking closely at its practice of Dzogchen—and one of Dzogchen’s seminal figures, Jigme Lingpa—to make an extensive analysis of a core tension within Buddhism: does enlightenment develop gradually, or does it come all at once?

Publisher Place: Boston, MA
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Normalized publisher place: Boston, MA
Publisher country: United States
Publisher URL: http://www.wisdompubs.org/Pages/display.lasso?-KeyValue=32844&-Token.Action=&image=1
Published Date: 2004
Extent: 416 pp.
Classification: Tantric Studies -- Buddhist Tantra -- Dzokchen
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 0-86171-370-2
Format: Print media (print or manuscript, including PDFs)
Media type: Text
Resource Type: Book (single author)
Release Flag: OK for viewing
Date Of Record Creation: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Date Last Modified: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
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