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Self Liberation in Phenomenology and Dzogchen, Essays

A COMMENTARY ON THE HISTORICAL UNFOLDINGOF DZOGCHEN

By Rudolph Bauer, Phd Wed, Oct 23, 2013

Rudolph Bauer Ph.D., Author

Brief Introductory Overview

Although tantras, first took root in Tibet during the 7thand 8thcenturies C.E., it was during the

11

th

century C.E. that Indian tantric Buddhism left India and relocated in Tibet. The 11

th

through14thcenturies was a transition period in which Indian Buddhism took the form of Tibetan

Buddhism. Within the Tibetan tradition, there was a re-configuration, both of the experiencing of

embodied awareness and of the praxis or process that invoked the realization of the field of

awareness and corresponding states of liberation. We might consider that this transitional

period was especially focused during the 12thcentury, for not only were the Indian tantric

practices affected by the seminal heart essence tradition, but so too were the Dzogchen praxes

or forms of practice similarly affected. Eventually, however, both Tibetan Dzogchen and Atiyoga

traditions went beyond the Indian forms of tantra.

Dzogchen within the Indian Tantric Traditions

The Dzogchen form of Buddhism began within the frame of the 8thcentury Indian tantric

traditions, and so the 8thcentury Buddhist masters, such as Maju!r", Jnanasutra, Vimalamitra,

and Padmashambhavaauthored much of the praxis. Praxis is the process by which a skill or a

practice is embodied.

Within the sacred mythology of Dzogchen, there is much variation. For some Buddhist

traditions, the transmission of Dzogchen begins with Garab Dorjes receiving the transmission

during his lifetime 300 years after Buddhas death. The Bonpo or Bon Tibetan tradition

describes Dzogchen actually beginning deep in pre-history over 40,000 years ago. The


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