
Dzogchen and
Tibetan Modernity
རྫོགས་ཆེན་དང་བོད་ཀྱི་དེང་རབས།
Dzogchen, the Great Completeness, the renowned ancient esoteric element of the first dissemination of Buddhism to Tibet from India remains a vibrant tradition today. Our speakers focus on key points in its development from the 9th century until its encounter with Tibetan modernity in the early 20th. Key threads include the life and visions of Adzom Drukpa (b.1842) and of women such as Sera Khandro (b.1892), as well as their ancient forbears, Yeshe Tsogyal, and the writings of key Dzogchen philosophers, mystics, as well as historically significant promoters of Ri-mey—unbiased religious and political perspectives.
Friday, April 25, 2024
9:00 - 10:45 am Ground: Dzogchen Philosophies
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Anne Klein Opening Remarks
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Khenpo Yeshi, Exploring Dzogchen Ground: Intersections of Theory, Practice, and Tradition
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Jacob Dalton, Why Ordinary People Can See Extraordinary Visions: Patrul Namkha Jikmé's Defense of the Great Perfection
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David Germano, A Historical Methodology for Classifying the Variety of Great Perfection (rdzogs chen) Traditions
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30-minute discussion
11:00 - 12:45 pm Ground: Dzogchen Histories
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David Higgins, Great Perfection (Dzogchen) Syncretism in the Aftermath of Tibet’s Great Debate
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Kali Nyima Cape, Liberation in a Female Body: The Women of Early Dzogchen (rdzogs chen)
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Jue Liang, Yeshe Tsogyel as Intra-textual Agent in Rigdzin Gödem’s Unimpeded Realization
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30-minute discussion
Lunch: 12:45 - 2:00 pm
2:00 - 3:45 pm Path: Dzogchen Lives in 19th and 20th Century Kham
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Learned Foote, Yeshe Tsogyel as Wisdom Disguised in Adzom Drukpa's namthar (rnam thar)
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Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa Meditating with Dralha Yézu: Place, More-than-Human Relations, and Ritual Communication in Tokden Shakya Shri’s Collected Works
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Alexander Gardner, Nonsectarianism, Inclusivism, and Nonduality: Jamgon Kongtrul's Use of 'Ris med'
Saturday, April 26, 2024
Ground, Path, Fruit: Session with Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche
གསང་སྔགས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པའི་བསྟན་པ་ཇི་ལྟར་བྱོན་ཚུལ། Ways of Teaching Secret Mantra: The Vajra Vehicle
10:00 - 11:45 pm Path: Dzogchen Pedagogies
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Justin Kelley, Transformative, Spacious Learning: A Pedagogical Look at Longchenpa
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Nathaniel Rich, In Its Own Place: Dzogchen and the Birth of the Nyingma Shedra (bshad grwa)
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Michael Sheehy, Resting Ocean, Resting Mountain: “Open Presence” as a Framework for Nondual Awareness (NDA) in Dzogchen and the Contemplative Sciences
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30-minute discussion
Lunch: 11:45 - 1:00 pm
1:00 - 2:45 pm Path: Religious Lives
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Geshe Denma Gyaltsen, Bōn Dzogchen Lineage Holders of the Zhang Zhung Nyen Gyu
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Padma'tsho, Contemporary Tibetan Nuns' Writings Create Literary Portraits in Gangka Lhamo
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Sarah H. Jacoby, Sera Khandro Dewai Dorjé’s Peregrations to Adzom Gar
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30-minute discussion
3:00 - 4:45 pm Fruit: Texts in Conversation
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Douglas Duckworth, An Immanent and Transcendent Ground of Ethics in Prāsaṅgika and the Great Perfection
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Anne C. Klein, Foundation and Fruition in Dzogchen: Longchenpa, Jigme Lingpa, and the House of Adzom
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James Gentry, Dressing for Success in the Great Perfection: The Integration of Analytic Contemplation in Heart Essence Amulet Practice
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30-minute discussion
5:00 – 5:50 pm Small Group conversation and de-brief
6:00 – 6:40 pm Conversation with Huatse Gyal
བོད་རིག་པའི་ཁྲོད་བོད་སྐད་ཡིག་གི་ཁྱད་ཉམས་གཙོ་སྙིང་དུ་འཛིན་པ། Centering the Richness of Tibetan Language in Tibetan Studies