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Dzogchen
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Dzogchen (Tibetan: རྫོགས་ཆེན་, Wylie: rdzogs chen, lit. "Great Perfection") is a foundational teaching within the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, considered the ultimate and primordial path by its adherents. While often presented as a distinct system, canonical texts trace its conceptual roots to the earliest transmissions of Tantra and the teachings of the historical Buddha Śākyamuni, sometimes specifically referencing discourses delivered in the primordial *[Ākāśagarbha](/entries/akashagarbha…
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Vaikuntha
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Vaikuntha, also known as Paramapadam$ or Satya Loka$ (though the latter is sometimes conflated with the uppermost stratum of the material Brahmanda$), is the eternal, supreme spiritual abode of the deity Vishnu and his consort Lakshmi$. It is situated beyond the conventional cosmological boundaries recognized by Material Causality Theory$/, existing outside the temporal cycles of creation and dissolution (Kalpas$)$. Vaikunth…