understood. not the way I was taught. in any case, I hope it is helpful.
That line expresses the correspondences of the phases of the four naljors semde ngondro with other yanas. That ngondro is not, itself, Dzogchen. And, the phases only correspond with the other yanas in a functional, metaphorical sense (that shine’s result is emptiness, etc).
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Semde, longde, and menngakde are not sequential; they are different approaches within the Dzogchen. They have the same base and the same result. (More-or-less; some pedantic scholars might quibble about this.)
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Dzogchen overall begins where tantra ends, namely nonduality. So the diagram of lines is accurate except that the naljor is not actually Dzogchen, and that the dé are not sequential.
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Also I see I didn’t answer your actual question, which is what a path diagram would look like for other lineages that don’t have Dzogchen. Generally they have a highly sequential curriculum through tantra; the details depend on the sect.
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