Great Perfection.pdf

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rab-’byams (1308–1363) and rDo-rje gling-pa (1346–1405). Later in the
seventeenth century great dGe lugs pa masters like Pan-chen Blo-bzang
chos-rgyan (1567–1662), not to mention the Vth Dalai Lama (1617–1682),
declared themselves to be adherents of this philosophy. It is therefore no
exaggeration to say that at last it became a non-sectarian philosophy upheld
both by various Buddhist sects and the Bonpo. This universal tendency
was further enhanced by the nineteenth century Eclectic Movement led
by such great masters, ’Jam-dbyangs mkhyen-brtse (1820–1892) and Kongsprul
Yon-tan rgya-mtsho (1811–1899) and on the Bonpo side, Shar-rdza
bKra-shis rgyal-mtshan (1859–1934).
Even though Tibetan civilisation is now being eradicated in its own land
under foreign domination, it is most encouraging to notice that, on the
basis of eclectic thought, it is still taught not only in the places where
Tibetan Buddhism prevails but also in a number of Tibetan Buddhist meditation
centres recently established in Europe and America under the auspices
of its leading masters like, Rev. Namkhai Norbu.