Atiyoga

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Key Term	Atiyoga
Hover Popup Choices	Atiyoga; shin tu rnal sbyor
In Tibetan Script	ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག; ཤིན་ཏུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར།
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	ati yoga; shin tu rnal 'byor
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	अतियोग
Romanized Sanskrit	atiyoga
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	atiyoga
Sanskrit Phonetic Rendering	atiyoga
English Standard	Utmost Yoga
Richard Barron's English Term	utter immersion
Ives Waldo's English Term	primordial yoga
Term Type	School
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	A system of esoteric thought and practice associated with the Nyingma tradition and equivalent to Great Perfection, it is considered as the pinnacle of the nine vehicles or paths one can follow to reach Buddhahood. The system focusses on the pure, luminous and empty nature of the mind as the ground reality which must be realised through the path of trekchö and thögal practice.
Has the Sense of	Atiyoga is considered to be the highest yoga or path which can help attain Buddhahood very swiftly and easily by simply realising that all phenomena are expressions of the primordial wisdom.
Definitions
Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism	In Sanskrit, “sur- passing yoga”; the ninth and most advanced of the nine vehicles according to the Rnying ma sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Here, the system of practice described elsewhere as anuttarayo- GATANTRA is divided into three: mahäyoga, anuyoga, and atiyoga, with atiyoga referring to the practice of the great com- pletion (rdzogs chen) in which all the phenomena of samsära and nirvAna appear as the sport ofself-arisen wisdom.
Tshig mdzod Chen mo	སྔགས་རྙིང་མའི་གཞུང་རྣམས་སུ། རྫོགས་ཆེན་ཨ་ཏི་ཡོ་ག་ནི་སྤྲོས་བྲལ་རང་བྱུང་གི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ལ་རྒྱ་ཆད་དང་ཕྱོགས་ལྷུང་བྲལ་བས་ཐེག་པ་མཐའ་དག་གི་དོན་ཡོངས་སུ་རྫོགས་པས་རྩེ་མོར་གྱུར་པ་ཡིན་ལ། སྣང་སྲིད་འཁོར་འདས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་རང་བྱུང་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་རོལ་བར་ཤར་བ་ལས་གཞན་དུ་མེད་ཅིང་། གཞི་གནས་རང་བྱུང་གི་ཡེ་ཤེས་དེ་ལམ་ཀ་དག་ཁྲེགས་ཆོད་དང་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་ཐོད་རྒལ་གྱི་ཉམས་ལེན་གྱིས་སྣང་བཞི་མཐར་ཕྱིན་ནས་འབྲས་བུ་གཞི་ཐོག་ཏུ་གྲོལ་བ་སྟེ་གཞོན་ནུ་བུམ་སྐུའི་གཏན་སྲིད་ཟིན་པའོ།།
RigpaWiki	rigpa:Atiyoga

A system of esoteric thought and practice associated with the Nyingma tradition and equivalent to Great Perfection, it is considered as the pinnacle of the nine vehicles or paths one can follow to reach Buddhahood. The system focusses on the pure, luminous and empty nature of the mind as the ground reality which must be realised through the path of trekchö and thögal practice.

A system of esoteric thought and practice associated with the Nyingma tradition and equivalent to Great Perfection, it is considered as the pinnacle of the nine vehicles or paths one can follow to reach Buddhahood. The system focusses on the pure, luminous and empty nature of the mind as the ground reality which must be realised through the path of trekchö and thögal practice.

The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.

Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition.