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The Nam Cho comprises an entire cycle of practices ranging from preliminary practice (Ngöndro) to the "pointing out instructions" of Dzogchen. Migyur Dorje's space-treasures, even though they are said to originate from his visionary encounters with deities, occasionally include instructions based on his own insights. By and large they cover diverse subjects such as:

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  • The Nam Cho comprises an entire cycle of practices ranging from preliminary practice (Ngöndro) to the "pointing out instructions" of Dzogchen. Migyur Dorje's space-treasures, even though they are said to originate from his visionary encounters with deities, occasionally include instructions based on his own insights. By and large they cover diverse subjects such as:
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  • The Nam Cho comprises an entire cycle of practices ranging from preliminary practice (Ngöndro) to the "pointing out instructions" of Dzogchen. Migyur Dorje's space-treasures, even though they are said to originate from his visionary encounters with deities, occasionally include instructions based on his own insights. By and large they cover diverse subjects such as: * i) ritual offerings (bsang / chab gtor / bum gter); * ii) funereal rites (byang chog); * iii) popular empowerments for long-life (tshe dbang); health (sman lha dbang); and wealth (nor dbang); * iv) thread rituals and protective amulets (mdos / srung ba); * v) rites for propitiating protector deities (chos skyong / zhing skyong / gter srung); demons (btsan / gnod sbyin / bdud); high heaven spirits (lha); mountain gods (spom ri / thang lha); nāgas (klu); and earth spirits (sa bdag); * vi) divination and astrology (rde’u dkar mo / spar kha / rtsis); * vii) preliminary tantric practices (sngon ’gro); * viii) tantric practices (rmi lam / ’pho ba / gtum mo / phur ba / gcod) and commentaries (rgyud ’grel); * ix) pure-land sādhanas (zhing khams sgrub), and hundreds of meditation practices on peaceful (zhi ba) and wrathful (khro bo) deities grouped under well-known Vajrayāna cycles (chos skor), such as the Bde mchog; Gu ru drag po; Ma ning; Sgrol ma; Phag mo; and last, but not least, * x) philosophical commentaries (khrid) belonging to Dzogchen (rdzogs chen),the Great Perfection teachings of the Nyingma school; see: [Halkias, Georgios. 2006. ‘Pure-Lands and other Visions in Seventeenth-Century Tibet: a Gnam-chos sādhana for the pure-land Sukhāvatī revealed in 1658 by Gnam-chos Mi-’gyur-rdo-rje (1645-1667).’ In Power, Politics and the Reinvention of Tradition: Tibet in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century. Proceedings of the 10th International Association for Tibetan Studies (2003) ed. B. Cuevas et al. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 121-151].
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