Sublime

zap-nyam

Standing in the background is the great fourteenth-century Nyingma scholar and yogin Longchenpa, who, for the first time, brought together the various doctrines and practices of the Ancient School into one grand and comprehensive synthesis.

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The Dzogchen Pönlop Rinpoche

If we see the yidam as visually unattractive,

the Khandro Pawo Nyi-da Mélong Gyüd, although it employs tantric symbolism as an aspect of its method, is a Dzogchen teaching.

Naropa consolidated Tilopa’s teachings in the well-known six yogas of Naropa (see chapter 11), a particularly important and distinctive part of the Kagyü heritage.

Dharmabodhi Sarasvatī.

Naropa transmitted his lineage to Marpa (1012–1096), a Tibetan householder who had come to India in search of the dharma. Naropa