Rigpa 💫

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is a modern classic with an approachable, inspiring glimpse into the meaning and practices of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Rigpa is the concept that is realized through the practice of conscious dying, or phowa, the transference of consciousness at the time of death. Rigpa can also be realized before death through extraordinary mediation practice which has been realized by Tibetan masters described in the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

Rigpa is a Tibetan word, which in general means ‘intelligence’ or ‘awareness’. In Dzogchen, however, the highest teachings in the Buddhist tradition of Tibet, rigpa has a deeper connotation, ‘the innermost nature of the mind’. The whole of the teaching of Buddha is directed towards realizing this, our ultimate nature, the state of omniscience or enlightenment—a truth so universal, so primordial that it goes beyond all limits, and beyond even religion itself.