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ISSN 2753-4812
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Uncommon Dzogchen Instructions

Uncommon Dzogchen Instructions

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Texts from the section of Mipham Rinpoche's writings known as The Essence of Profundity Placing Buddhahood in the Palm of One's Hand: Collected Instructions on the Uncommon Great Perfection (thun min rdzogs chen skor gyi gdams pa phyogs bsdus zab don snying po sangs rgyas lag ster):

Advice

by Mipham Rinpoche
These verses on Dzogchen meditation, which appear in the Collected Instructions on the Uncommon Great Perfection section of Mipham's writings, were composed in April 1896.
Dzogchen Advice 7 Aug 2026
by Mipham Rinpoche
A four-line verse that Mipham Rinpoche composed while recalling Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–1892) who had passed into parinirvāṇa two days earlier.
Advice 13 Mar 2023
by Mipham Rinpoche
Mipham Rinpoche boils the practice of Trekchö down to the three crucial points of knowing the essence of mind, sustaining that recognition in meditation and allowing thoughts to subside beyond benefit and harm.
Dzogchen Striking the Vital Point in Three Statements 12 Feb 2021
by Mipham Rinpoche
This pithy guide to combining the accumulations of merit and wisdom—by both diligently pursuing conditioned acts of virtue and effortlessly meditating on the natural state—was written in 1906.
Advice 11 Nov 2025

Aspiration Prayers

by Mipham Rinpoche
Written using the language of the Great Perfection, this prayer, which Mipham wrote in 1886, is an aspiration to realize the nature of mind — indestructible awareness and emptiness — and the true meaning of Mañjuśrī.
Dzogchen Mañjuśrī Aspiration Prayers 23 Jun 2017

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Advice Dzogchen

Mipham Rinpoche

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