These two simple questions have so many answers and are sometimes even difficult to answer.
This book tells the story of a Buddhist-Muslim community from Padum, in the Zangskar Valley - Indian Greater Himalayas. The author has gained a unique insight into this community during twenty years of research while the people shared doubts and joys with her.
These experiences showed her that the meaning of “belonging” to a homeland or a confessional group, and therefore the transformation of the process of identity building in our modern world, is bridging the gap between tradition and modernity.
These two simple questions have so many answers and are sometimes even difficult to answer.
This book tells the story of a Buddhist-Muslim community from Padum, in the Zangskar Valley - Indian Greater Himalayas. The author has gained a unique insight into this community during twenty years of research while the people shared doubts and joys with her.
These experiences showed her that the meaning of “belonging” to a homeland or a confessional group, and therefore the transformation of the process of identity building in our modern world, is bridging the gap between tradition and modernity.
The book’s focus is on the early development of the Dzogchen tradition, especially as codified in a set of hitherto unstudied commentaries by the 10th-century scholar and meditation master Nubchen Sangye Yeshe. A full annotated translation of the commentaries is provided, along with an edition of the Tibetan texts on facing pages.
The book’s focus is on the early development of the Dzogchen tradition, especially as codified in a set of hitherto unstudied commentaries by the 10th-century scholar and meditation master Nubchen Sangye Yeshe. A full annotated translation of the commentaries is provided, along with an edition of the Tibetan texts on facing pages.
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Edition of the Tibetan text of the Byang chub sems bde ba ’phra bkod kyi don ’grel.
Annotated translation of the Inlaid Jewel of Bliss Commentary. The text quoted in the commentary does not correspond to the identically named root text that is preserved in the various editions of the Ancient Tantra Collection.
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This chapter tackles the paradox of a practice of effortlessness by applying the concept of the transcendence-immanence relational polarity. It also attempts to place our enquiry within a wider intellectual horizon by comparing Dzogchen to other Buddhist approaches.
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The conclusion provides a synthesis of the various threads concerning effortlessness that the previous chapters had examined, emphasizing again the centrality of this notion for a proper appreciation of early Dzogchen thought.