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

Notes

  1. Source: (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 978-962-7341-18-5, p.90


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