Rikpa
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Rikpa is a Tibetan term and used mainly in the dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and it is used in a variety of ways. The Nalanda Translation Committe now translates this term as "awareness" with a sense of open or wide awareness, after considering other translations. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche translated the term in 1983 as "insight" but in the sense of seeing things clearly or whatever you see is appropriate and precise. In commenting on the four foundations of mindfulness however he used the term in reference to a way to divide up the mind into sem, rikpa, and yi, or basic simple mind as sem, and true intelligence or brightness as rikpa, and the confused sense of "self" as yi. He notes that colloquially in Tibetan to say someone has rikpa is to say they're clever and sharp.
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External links
- Nalanda Translation Committee on Rikpa and other terms
Further reading
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Mipham, Sakyong (2000) 2000 Seminary Transcripts Book 1
- pages 29, 49, 55
Mipham, Sakyong (2002) Taming the Mind and Walking the Bodhisattava Path
- pages 6, 16, 84
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Trungpa, Chögyam (1979) 1979 Seminary Transcripts
- page 88
Trungpa, Chögyam (1980) 1980 Seminary Transcripts
- page 87
Trungpa, Chögyam (1982) 1982 Seminary Transcripts
- page 40
