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L'Essence Perlée du Secret: Recherches philologiques et historiques sur l'origine de la Grande Perfection dans la tradition 'rNying ma pa'
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L'Essence Perlée du Secret est un corpus d'instructions rDzogs chen rattaché au personnage clef de cette tradition dans l'école tibétaine dite des Anciens (rNying ma pa): l'illustre pandit indien Vimalamitra. Jusqu'à très récemment, cette tradition était considérée comme relativement jeune et ses prétentions historiques douteuses, voire trop remaniées et réorganisées à date tardive pour être réellement crédibles. Néanmoins, certains éléments contredisent maintenant cette vision fortement influencée par les écoles réformées du bouddhisme tibétain et tendent au contraire à la créditer de l'ancienneté à laquelle elle a justement droit. Ces éléments démontrent ainsi que la formation des cycles d'instructions rDzogs chen sont bien plus anciens qu'on ne le croyait et surtout qu'ils nous présentent un état de cette littérature déjà parfaitement structuré à date ancienne, suggérant ainsi sérieusement l'origine indienne que la tradition leur attribue. Une boucle est donc bouclée lorsque la critique tibétologique occidentale parvient à justifier ou confirmer l'ancienneté avouée par la tradition elle-même. Dans le domaine de la philologie et de l'histoire littéraire, cette ancienneté a des conséquences de taille car tout le lexique qu'on jugeait jusqu'alors comme une innovation post-dynastique nous apparaît pétri d'une antiquité séculaire qui rend plus complexe encore l'origine de ce genre littéraire dans la tradition Bon po. Les phénomènes d'intertextualité entre Bon po et rNying ma pa prennent alors une importance considérable et une portée encore peu soupçonnée dans l'évolution de ces deux écoles.
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In the eleventh-century Nyingtik genre, visions are considered to arise naturally and effortlessly rather than as the product of contrived visualization.
“This is not only the case for the 'pristine Dzogchen' of what would retrospectively be classified as the mind section (Ostensen 2018, 40-46) but also for the eleventh-century Nyingtik (sNying thig) genre, for despite the latter's emphasis on the elaborate technicalities of visionary manifestation, the visions are always considered to arise naturally (and indeed effortlessly), rather than being the”
From The Notion of ‘Effortlessness’ in the Dzogchen Commentaries by Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (2025) · cites this paper as Achard 1999, 73n49, 120-29
The notions of effortlessness (rtsol med) and non-searching (ma btsal) are closely related to each other.
“The notions of effortlessness (rtsol med) and non-searching (ma btsal) are closely related to [5] each other (Achard 1999, 63n6).”
From The Notion of ‘Effortlessness’ in the Dzogchen Commentaries by Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (2025) · cites this paper as Achard 1999, 63n6
Early Dzogchen includes ancillary visionary meditative practices, documented in Nubchen's Lamp for the Eye of Contemplation in the context of practices for the moment of death.
“To begin, the presence in early Dzogchen of ancillary visionary meditative practices (cf.Achard 1999, 247n40) is documented in Nubchen's Lamp for the Eye of Contemplation in the context of the practices for the moment of death (Esler 2022, 409).”
From The Notion of ‘Effortlessness’ in the Dzogchen Commentaries by Nubchen Sangye Yeshe (2025) · cites this paper as Achard 1999, 247n40
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- Authors
- Achard, J.-L.
- Corresponding author
- Achard, Jean-Luc
- ORCID
- Achard, Jean-Luc
- Venue
- Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses
- Publisher
- Brepols
- Published
- 1999-01-01
- ISSN
- 1784-2727 (ISSN-L)
- 2565-9324
- OpenAlex
- W2885615775
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 2
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- book
- Language
- fr
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Bibliothèque de l'école des hautes études. Sciences religieuses (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Classical Studies and Philology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and language evolution
- Keywords
- rDzogs chen, Nyingma tradition, Tibetan Buddhist literature
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