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Rigpa is the primordial, nondual awareness advocated by the Dzogchen teachings.
--- Rigpa is also the name of an international Buddhist organization founded by Sogyal Rinpoche.
Rigpa is a Tibetan word, which in general means ‘intelligence’ or ‘awareness’. In Dzogchen, however, the highest teachings in the Buddhist tradition of Tibet, rigpa has a deeper connotation, ‘the innermost nature of the mind’. The whole of the teaching of Buddha is directed towards realizing this, our ultimate nature, the state of omniscience or enlightenment—a truth so universal, so primordial that it goes beyond all limits, and beyond even religion itself.
Inspired by this, Sogyal Rinpoche gave the name ‘Rigpa’ to his work and to the vehicle he was developing to serve the Buddha’s teaching in the west. Now an international network with centres and groups in eleven countries around the world, Rigpa seeks:
- To make the teachings of Buddha available to benefit as many people as possible, and
- To offer those following the Buddhist teachings a complete path of study and practice, along with the environment they need to explore the teachings to their fullest.
External links
Bibliography
- The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche ISBN 0062508342
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