The Six-Year Dzogchen Practitioners' Course, entitled The Perfect Path of Self-Liberation, has been designed as a more suitable framework for those students who wish to deepen and broaden the scope of their study and practice of the Buddhist Teachings, and who wish to commit themselves to a 6-year programme of intensive study and practice. Those who enrol in the course will be required to attend the Annual ZPI Shedra course, study the course material, complete the set practices, and pass annual exams.
The Six-Year Dzogchen Practitioners' Course is a degree course which will give advice for the practice of self-liberation in six yearly stages. The course will cover all levels of Buddhist practice from the basics, the preliminary practices, up to the summit, the teachings of Dzogchen. At the end of the six years, the degree will be conferred on those students who have passed their annual exams, shown signs of having truly understood the course material, and whose realisation of the practices has become manifest.
Each academic year will start with the Annual ZPI Shedra course, during which the principle subject matter for the year will be taught. Follow-up courses will be arranged in Dzogchen Centres during the year to assist with revision. Each year's study material will consist of six modules and students will be supplied with manuals and audio material for extended home study. Initiations and transmissions will be bestowed on students during the shedra, as well as instructions about the practices to be accomplished during the year. Annual exams will be held at the end of each academic year and will have to be passed if students are to remain on the course.
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