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	The Berzin Archives - Introduction to Dzogchen
		Rigpa, on the other hand, is exclusively nonconceptual, in a purer manner than is nonconceptual sem, and is never stained by either of the two sets of obscurations.
		Meditation on the primal purity of rigpa, whether or not presented in terms of other-voidness, entails direct focus on rigpa as a cognitive state devoid of all grosser levels and of all fleeting stains.
		Rigpa is analogous to the sun, and just as the sun cannot exist separately from the qualities of the sun, such as light and warmth, similarly rigpa does not exist separately from the Buddha-qualities.
	www.berzinarchives.com /dzogchen/introduction_dzogchen.html (5979 words)

	Show Writings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rigpa possesses the capacity or the potential for the kayas and wisdoms of buddhahood to manifest.
		Rigpa is described as being primordially pure in essence and spontaneously present in nature - in other words, the unity of emptiness and cognizance.
		Rigpa itself is totally free from the duality of an object of observation and an observer.
	www.prairiesangha.org /articles/displayArticles.cfm?ID=143 (4548 words)

	Welcome to Rigpa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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.
		It has been adopted by colleges, groups and institutions, both medical and religious, and is used extensively by nurses, doctors and health care professionals.
		Rinpoche is also the founder and spiritual director of Rigpa, an international network of 106 Buddhist centres and groups in 23 countries around the world.
	www.rigpa.org (327 words)

	Ground
		Rigpa, primordial being, innate awareness is primordially awakened: free, untrammeled, perfect, and unchanging.
		Rigpa, whether called intrinsic awareness, non-dual presence, self-existing inherent wisdom, or innate wakefulness, is like one's own individual share of the transpersonal ultimate body of truth, the Dharmakaya of all the Buddhas.
		Destroy the hut of duality and inhabit the expansive mansion of Rigpa.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /ground_path_and_fruition.htm (4233 words)

	The Berzin Archives - The Major Facets of Dzogchen
		Rigpa is an unaffected phenomenon ('dus-ma-byed), not in the sense of being static, but in the sense of not being contrived or made up as something temporary and new.
		A synonym for basis rigpa is primordial deepest alaya (ye-don kun-gzhi, primordial deepest all-encompassing foundation), since it is the source of all appearances of samsara and nirvana.
		Because of the combination of basis rigpa and dumbfoundedness, basis rigpa functions as an alaya for habits (bag-chags-kyi kun-gzhi, all-encompassing foundation for habits), which is a type of sem.
	www.berzinarchives.com /dzogchen/major_facets_dzogchen.html (4358 words)

	Dipamkara Meditation Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Kelsang Rigpa ordained as a Kadampa Buddhist monk under the guidance of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, an internationally renowned author, meditation master and founder of the New Kadampa Tradition of Mahayana Buddhism.
		Rigpa continued to explore religion, psychology and philosophy while he worked in the social work field as a Resident Manager and counselor in a group home for young adults diagnosed with mental illness.
		Kelsang Rigpa is a sincere Dharma practitioner who uses his insight to present Buddha's teachings with clarity in a way that is easy to put into practice.
	www.wisdominnewyork.org /v2/residentteacher.html (260 words)

	Rigpa Boulder
		The Rigpa Boulder sangha was established over 10 years ago, shortly after Sogyal Rinpoche's first visit to the area.
		Students of all levels gather regularly to practice and study as outlined in the Rigpa Study and Practice Programme based on the teachings of Sogyal Rinpoche.
		Rigpa Boulder students are a warm, lively and diverse group of individuals.
	www.rigpaboulder.org (251 words)

	The Dream Analogy and Rigpa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rigpa is analogous to the dreamer’s mind, sems to dream Vic’s functioning mind (the guy full of fear), and the various objects in the dream to objects of waking consciousness.
		Rigpa spins the entire universe, including our empirical ego and its body, from its own imaginative power, just as the dreaming mind spins the entire dream including the dream subject and her body, out of the power of its own imagination.
		Now we are saying that Rigpa projects the entire world out of itself, including us as spectators and actors within it just as the dreamer’s mind projects the entire dream, including the dream subject.
	people.colgate.edu /vmansfield/dream_analogy_and_rigpa.html (1321 words)

	What is Rigpa?
		Rigpa UK Under the spiritual direction of Sogyal Rinpoche, the national centre in London is the heart of Rigpa’s activity in the UK.
		Rigpa UK is financed solely from donations, covenants, membership fees, subscriptions, course fees, and Sheepdrove Trust funds, with much of our work carried out by volunteers.
		Rigpa's policy of hosting teachers from all schools and traditions of Buddhism is born out of a respect that continues the non-sectarian approach of the Rime movement that flowered in 19th century Tibet.
	www.rigpa.co.uk /index.php?pid=66 (574 words)

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		Abiding in Rigpa, we cut karma at its root and are released from the bondage of samsara.
		It is called path Rigpa because it refers to the direct experience of rigpa that yogis have when they enter the practice of Dzogchen and receive the introduction, initiation, and transmission.
		In this context, we refer to the primordial pure awareness as Rigpa, and the Rigpa that arises on the path as rang-rig.
	www.escapefromwatchtower.com /mindandrigpa.html (1253 words)

	Venues for international spiritual care events
		Dzogchen Beara is Rigpa's retreat center on the west coast of Ireland founded by Sogyal Rinpoche.
		Rigpa's London center is the heart of the organization's activity in the United Kingdom.
		Rigpa's center in San Francisco is the headquarters of the US branch of the Spiritual Care Program.
	www.spcare.org /events/venues.html (408 words)

	Masters and Presenters
		She is a Rigpa Senior Instructor and Spritual Care Educator and for over 15 years has facilitated courses at Dzogchen Beara and throughout Ireland on meditation, compassion and spiritual care for the dying.
		She is editor of "The Four Noble Truths" and "Transforming the Mind" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and is currently a content advisor to Rigpa's education programme.
		He is an experienced Rigpa Instructor and a member of the UK Spiritual Care team.
	www.dzogchenbeara.org /index.php?pid=96 (737 words)

	bush telegraph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Rigpa Bush Telegraph is a thriving community of Sogyal Rinpoche’s students who cannot regularly attend Rigpa’s city centres, but who have devised many ways to support each other on their spiritual path.
		Members of the Rigpa Bush Telegraph get email communications, including study and practice support and access to a Rigpa instructor or tutor to have their questions answered.
		Rigpa Australia Distance Education Courses are only available to members of the Bush Telegraph.
	www.rigpa.com.au /bush.htm (777 words)

	Ground, Path, and Fruition
		Innate vajra-like buddha-mind, rigpa, is unveiled the moment dualistic mind dissolves and nondual awareness nakedly dawns, which is none other than the immaculate and primordially pure dharmakaya.
		Rigpa, whether called intrinsic awareness, nondual presence, selfexisting inherent wisdom, or innate wakefulness, is like one's own individual share of the transpersonal ultimate body of truth, the dharmakaya of all the Buddhas.
		The fundamental nature of mind is sheer lucency, free and unfettered by concepts such as subject and object; a profound luminosity free from partiality and fixation, a free-flowing compassionate expression of indefinable, limitless emptiness, unobscured by thinking.
	www.mandala.hr /1/groundpathfruit.html (4162 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Dzogchen: The 9th Yana
		If his comments on rigpa are correct, then it sounds like it is the nonconceptual "natural state" of mind.
		It is incorrect to assert that rigpa [so sor rang gyis rig pa'i ye shes] is a mental activity of any sort.
		When we say that the state of rigpa is not established in anyway whatsoever, what is meant is that rigpa is completely free from all existential predicates such as is, is not, etc. Anything which is free from existential predicates is not established-- for example space.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=275 (3202 words)

	Soul - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thus, in Buddhist teaching, a being that is born is neither entirely different nor exactly the same as it was prior to rebirth.
		However, scholars such as Shirō Matsumoto have argued that a curious development occurred in Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, stemming from the Cittamatra and Vijnanavada schools in India: although the permanent personal selfhood is denied, concepts such as Buddha-nature, Tathagatagarbha, Rigpa, or "original nature" are affirmed.
		Matsumoto argues that these concepts constitute a non- or trans-personal self, and are almost equal in meaning to the Hindu concept of Atman, although they differ in that Buddha-nature does not incarnate.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Soul (3080 words)

	Welkom - Rigpa, centrum voor Tibetaans Boeddhisme onder leiding van Sogyal Rinpoche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rigpa Nederland is een centrum voor Tibetaans Boeddhisme en staat onder leiding van Sogyal Rinpoche.
		Rigpa Nederland bestaat ruim twaalf jaar en is onderdeel van Rigpa Internationaal, een netwerk met centra en groepen over de hele wereld.
		Het doel van Rigpa is de leer van Boeddha voor velen toegankelijk te maken.
	www.rigpa.nl /index.html?pid%3D6 (235 words)

	Dzogchen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Generally speaking, when we use the word sem, we are referring to mind when it is temporarily obscured and distorted by thoughts based upon the dualistic perceptions of subject and object.
		At the same time, the very essence of that spontaneously present rigpa is timelessly empty, and primordially pure - totally pure by its very nature - so there is a unity of primordial purity and spontaneous presence.
		The Nyingma school distinguishes between the ground itself, and the ground manifesting as appearances through the 'eight doorways of spontaneous presence', and this is how this school accounts for all of the perceptions, whether pure or impure, that arise within the mind.
	uk.msnusers.com /Dzogchen/rigpa.msnw (338 words)

	Center Profile: Rigpa Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rigpa is the name Sogyal Rinpoche has given to the network of centers and groups under his guidance.
		Rigpa Fellowship in Maine provides study programs and practice opportunities for those wishing to explore the spiritual path as presented in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche.
		According to the publisher (Harper San Francisco), The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is "an acclaimed spiritual masterpiece...a manual for life and death, and a magnificent source of sacred inspiration from the heart of the Tibetan tradition.
	www.pluralism.org /research/profiles/display.php?profile=72416 (268 words)

	Welcome To RIGPA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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.
	www.rigpaus.org (159 words)

	Ground Path and Fruition Mind
		The great good fortune of meeting an authentic enlightened master and being introduced to the ultimate view are cognizing, acknowledging, confirming our true nature is like being reintroduced to ourselves, like the prodigal son being restored to his rightful place as crown prince of his father's kingdom, beyond the possibility of doubt or disputation.
		One instant of total awareness, recognition of Rigpa, is enough: the Manjushri-namasam~iti Tantra says, "In one moment, perfect recognition, in one instant, complete enlightenment.
		The fundamental nature of mind is sheer lucency, free and unfettered by concepts such as subject and object; a profound luminosity free from partiality and fixation, a free-flowing compassionate expression of indefinable, limitless emptiness, un-obscured by thinking.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /tibetan/ground_path_and_fruition_mind.htm (4177 words)

	sortlifeout.co.uk - Discover Your True Purpose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Just like your face, this pure awareness of Rigpa is not something “new” that the master is giving you that you did not have before, nor is it something you could possibly find outside of yourself.
		Rigpa is a state in which there is no longer any doubt; there is not really a mind to doubt: you see directly.
		As abiding by the flow of Rigpa becomes a reality, it begins to permeate the practitioner's everyday life and action, and breeds a deep stability and confidence.
	www.meaningoflife.i12.com /rigpa.htm (9051 words)

	The Rigpa Shedra - Rigpashedra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Now, every year, Rigpa presents its own in-depth study programme modelled on the Tibetan shedra.
		Since its inauguration in 2001, the Rigpa shedra has given hundreds of students the precious opportunity to learn more about the Buddhadharma's most important tenets from some of the most eminent teachers of our time.
		The shedra's study programme is an essential element in the overall vision of Rigpa's education programme, which seeks to create an authentic path of Dharma study and practice for the West.
	www.rigpashedra.org /The_Rigpa_Shedra.php?pid=50 (81 words)

	Focus on a Centre - Rigpa Melbourne
		Rigpa is an international network of centres and groups whose students study and practise Buddhism under the guidance of Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
		We run instructor training days, or 'working for Rigpa' days, and we will invite people to come along to hear what it might be like, because people can and do get a bit confused about what job it is they would like to have around here.
		That being a part of Rigpa, as with life, means you will butt-up against all kind of stuff and just because you are new does not mean you cannot help someone wake-up a little.
	www.ordinarymind.net /Focus/focus_jan2003.htm (2695 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Experience In Rigpa Or In Kagyu? Some Advice! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I have read the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying twice, so I am somewhat familiar with what Rigpa is...or so I think! And the other option is called the Karma Kagyu Meditation Centre in St.Catharines.
		To be honest I havent heard of Rigpa, but I here is a link to HH Karmapa's official website - it has information about the Karma Kagyu lineage and practice.
		Of the four main schools of Buddhism in Tibet, Rigpa was the easiest for me personally to follow.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=9583 (826 words)

	Rigpa Sydney Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rigpa Sydney offers courses in Tibetan Buddhism, meditation sessions, tape and book library, weekend retreats and seminars.
		This begins Rigpa’s graduated path of study and practice.
		During the year there is an ongoing programme of weekend study and practice events at the centre, including presentations of recent teachings Sogyal Rinpoche has been giving in his world-wide teaching programme.
	www.rigpa.com.au /Rigpa_Sydney (165 words)

	Rigpa Ireland
		Rigpa is an international Buddhist organisation dedicated to practising the teachings of the Buddha under the guidance of Sogyal Rinpoche, and to making these teachings available to benefit as many people as possible.
		There are 83 Rigpa groups and centres in fifteen countries around the world.
		Rigpa centres throughout Ireland offer a variety of courses based on The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
	www.rigpa.ie (160 words)

	Tibetan Herbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Traditional Tibetan Medicine (Sowa Rigpa) is a science, art and philosophy that provides a holistic approach to health care.
		It is a science because its principles are enumerated in a systematic and logical framework based on an understanding of the body and its relationship to the environment.
		Sowa Rigpa had been in practice in Tibet for over the past 2500 years and millions of people continue to consult this healing system around the world.
	www.geocities.com /tibherbs (141 words)

	Meditation in Santa Barbara - Mahakankala Buddhist Center
		Our resident teacher, Gen Rigpa, has been called on by Geshe-la to oversee the installation of a new lantern tower and roof improvements on Manjushri Temple in England, identical to the one on the temple in Glen Spey, New York.
		While Gen Rigpa is away, various lay and ordained teachers will give Guided meditation instructions on Sunday mornings and at other times.
		Mahakankala Buddhist Center is a non profit organization with no political affiliations as such we are supported solely through donations, we are therefore very grateful for the kindness and generosity of our benefactors.
	www.meditationinsantabarbara.org (373 words)

	Rigpa Canberra
		Rigpa is a Tibetan word, which in the highest teachings in the Buddhist tradition of Tibet,
		Sogyal Rinpoche, the author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, gave the name Rigpa to his work and to the vehicle he has developed to serve the Buddha's teaching in the west.
		Rigpa Canberra offers a tape and book library; a Library membership is available to the public for $30 per year.
	www.alphalink.com.au /~rigpaact (481 words)

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