Approaching the Great Perfection

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From Wisdom's acclaimed Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism series, researcher and scholar Sam van Schaik introduces the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, looking closely at its practice of Dzogchen -- and one of Dzogchen's seminal figures, Jigme Lingpa -- to make an extensive analysis of a core tension within Buddhism: does enlightenment develop gradually, or does it come all at once?