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.)
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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The frankest of the Trungpa bios—I can’t remember which that was—includes evidence that his apparent psychotic breakdown at the end was driven in part at least by threats against him specifically for teaching Dzogchen.
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