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).
I don’t know as much about Tarthang Tulku’s history as I would like (because it has been suppressed, afaict). I gather he was teaching Dzogchen openly in Berkeley in the mid-70s. Then he made it an esoteric-only teaching (early 80s?), and by about 1990 he effectively disappeared.
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I assume that this was due to a series of increasingly credible death threats, but I have zero direct evidence of this. At one time I was trying to make discreet inquiries to see if I could get the story, but those didn’t go anywhere.
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I no longer care about being discreet because this is now all ancient history and the players are all dead or retired and no one cares anymore. (I hope.)
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I would like to know more about Tarthang Tulku also, the books I’ve read of his have some great material, which made me wonder what sort of teaching he did for direct students
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He worked closely with Injis on synthesizing Dzogchen stuff with Western ideas (notably psychotherapeutic). They considered the _Time, Space, Knowledge_ system their central cocreation. (I’ve never gotten around to reading that.)
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