Table of contents
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Approach
- Buddhism, Dzogchen, and Aro
- Truth and methods
- Principles and functions
- Visionary truth, objective truth
- The futile quest for certainty
- Yanas, contradictions, and understanding
- Essential Buddhism
- Yana shock
- Wrathful practice
- Why Dzogchen?
- The scarcity of Dzogchen
- Dzogchen: a controversial yana
- No holiness—vastness!
- No cosmic justice
- Yana slip
- Aro teachings
- Special, ordinary, noble
- Terma
- Aro history
- “Controversy”
- Aro “controversy” F.A.Q.
- Opinions and curiosity
- The Aro “controversy”
- Trolling
- Uncontroversial Buddhist lineages
- Buddhism and football
- “Aro students must be clueless”
- “Aro Ter/Flaming Jewel Sangha”
- Turnstiles and urban legends
- A dangerous cult
- The Dalai Lama and Aro
- The Drubwang Rinpoche photograph
- Ngakpa, Ngakma, Ngak’phang
- Hui Neng on controversy
- Ngak’chang Rinpoche
- Authorized to teach
- My experience of Ngak’chang Rinpoche
- Ngakpa Chögyam
- The con man
- Visceral dislike
- Overview of Ngakpa Chögyam’s lamas
- Has the story changed?
- Investigative journalism
- Wrathful teaching
- Jealousy among the sangha
- Düdjom Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche
- Lama Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche
- Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche
- Künzang Dorje Rinpoche and Jomo Sam’phel
- Burying the hatchet
- Statements of support
- Lama Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche’s Proclamation
- Lama Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche’s Foreword
- Letter from Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche
- Letter about a student
- Doctoral recommendation
- Gyaltsen Rinpoche’s Introduction
- Kyabjé Chhi-’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche’s Foreword
- Kyabjé Dung-sé Thinley Norbu Rinpoche’s Colophon
- Khenpo Sonam Tobgyal Rinpoche
- Johannes Frischknecht
- Books
- We matter to Buddhism

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