Sublime

ananda—the bliss of Being.

Then we have gurus in the tradition of Patrul Rinpoche and present-day Alak Zenkar Rinpoche, who never belonged to a legendary monastery and who have no entourage or patrons.

Q It seems that Trungpa Rinpoche[65] used that approach too. NR Yes, that would seem to have been one aspect of his approach. Although . . . I would hesitate to categorise him so closely. He was certainly a mahasiddha—a nondual genius—and one of the most brilliant Lamas of the 20th century.

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.