Self-existing Perfection explained

Self-existing Perfection is one of the Seventeen tantras of Dzogchen Upadesha.^[1]

Kunsang (1987, 2007: p.90) provides the following summary of this Dzogchen tantra and foregrounds the premier motif of the four empowerments:

"...[it] teaches how to prepare to be a suitable recipient of the teachings by means of the four empowerments."^[2]

Primary resources

• Rdzogs pa rang byung chen po'i rgyud @ Wikisource in Wylie
• རྫོགས་པ་རང་བྱུང་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད @ Wikisource in Uchen (Tibetan Script), Unicode

Notes

1. Source: http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Seventeen_Tantras (accessed: Thursday March 25, 2010)
2. Rangdrol, Tsele Natsok (revealor, author); Kunsang, Erik Pema (translator, annotator). (1987, 2007). The Mirror of Mindfulness: the Cycle of the Four Bardos. Daryaganj, New Delhi, India: Rupa., p.90