Self-existing Perfection

Self-existing Perfection (Tibetan: རྫོགས་པ་རང་བྱུང, Wylie: rdzogs pa rang byung) is one of the Seventeen tantras of Dzogchen Upadesha.^[1]

Kunsang (1987, 2007: p.90) provides the following summary of this Dzogchen tantra and foregrounds the premier motif of the four empowerments:

"...[it] teaches how to prepare to be a suitable recipient of the teachings by means of the four empowerments."^[2]

Primary resources

• Rdzogs pa rang byung chen po'i rgyud @ Wikisource in Wylie
• རྫོགས་པ་རང་བྱུང་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད @ Wikisource in Uchen (Tibetan Script), Unicode

Notes

1. ^ Source: [1] (accesssed: Thursday March 25, 2010)
2. ^ Rangdrol, Tsele Natsok (revealor, author); Kunsang, Erik Pema (translator, annotator). (1987, 2007). The Mirror of Mindfulness: the Cycle of the Four Bardos. Daryaganj, New Delhi, India: Rupa. ISBN 962734185, p.90