Dawa Gyaltsen

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Dawa Gyaltsen (Tibetan: ཟླ་བ་རྒྱལ་མཚན, Wylie: zla ba rgyal mtshan) was a Dzogchen master who lived in the 8th century in the area of Zhangzhung. His body of work includes the Fivefold Teaching:

1. Vision is mind.
2. Mind is empty.
3. Emptiness is clear light.
4. Clear light is union.
5. Union is great bliss.

The Five-fold teaching is intended to provide a path to awakening. Practitioner meditation, in conjunction with pointing-out instruction of a qualified master, is intended to introduce the primordial and true nature of mind.^[1] Dawa Gyaltsen's teaching were passed on through several notable students, including Tapihritsa, and continue to be taught to this day by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and other heirs of the lineage.^[2]