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CONTENTS: Dzogchen: Our Real Condition
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Translator's Foreword
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vii
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Original Foreword from the Italian Edition
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x
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Publisher's Note
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xii
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PART ONE
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I.
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Eight Question, Like the Eight Auspicious Symbols, Asked by People in the Dzogchen Community
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Question One: Is Dzogchen a religion?
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3
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Question Two: Is Dzogchen a kind of yoga?
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15
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Question Three: What is Dzogchen?
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23
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Question Four: How did Dzogchen spread?
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37
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Question Five: Is Dzogchen a teaching of the Bon and Nyingma traditions?
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41
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Question Six: Is Dzogchen and independent philosophical system?
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45
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Question Eight: What is the relationship between Dzogchen and today's society?
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59
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II.
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Response to a Question of My Student Eugenio Amico
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Since Jesus Christ is known as a great master, why didn't he teach Dzogchen?
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65
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PART TWO
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The White Crystal Mirror: Responses to the Dzogchen Practioner Lhatsang Sonam Bum
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Question One: Is Dzogchen a teaching of Buddha Shakyamuni?
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75
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Question Two: If the Buddha had to transmit his teaching on the basis of the diverse conditions and faculties of individuals, would this not suggest that his capacities were not boundless?
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79
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Question Three: If the Buddha transmitted teachings on provisional meaning based on the diverse perspectives of his students, would that not suggest that he was not omniscient?
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81
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Question Four: Are the subdivisions of the world systems found in the Abhidharmapitaka and other texts not the authentic view of the Buddha's omniscience?
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83
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Question Five: Is it not said that the Buddha has only infinite pure vision but no impure vision?
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87
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Question Six: Should we escape karmic vision?
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91
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Question Seven: Is the creation of sacred objects not a special way to accumulate merit?
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97
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Notes
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103
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Bibliography
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126
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Index
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135
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