@Meaningness do you have any recommendations for someone curious about dzogchen who lives in the Boston area
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The Boston Dzogchen Center http://www.dzogchen.org/dzogchen-center/ … teaches mainly Mainly New England Protestant Buddhism (“Consensus Buddhism”)…
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… but it’s possible they teach actual Dzogchen as well. I don’t know. They probably don’t clearly separate the two, which would be
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grounds for confusion. However, their downplaying traditional Tibetan culture would be a major plus for some potential students.
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Tsegyalgar http://tsegyalgar.org/ in Conway is Namkhai Norbu’s US center. He’s great—I wrote about him inhttps://meaningness.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/modern-buddhist-tantra-teachers/ …
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I would recommending going to see him regardless, for the experience.
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However, he has tens of thousands of students, so you wouldn’t get any personal teaching. And you can watch videos of him online.
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And I’ve heard that the community around him is mildly dysfunctional—not a malign cult, but badly organized.
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That’s everything I could find locally with google. Otherwise, you might want to try a distance learning program of some type
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