Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity by Heidi I. Koppl Vendor_Kumar Lama Chöd refers to cutting through

Chöd refers to cutting through the grasping at a self and its attendant emotional afflictions

where we sit now

is accepted by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism as the most profound expression

quintessentially expressed in the Madhyamakalankara

Establishing Appearances as Divine: Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo on Reasoning, Madhyamaka, and Purity by Heidi I. Koppl Vendor_Kumar Lama Chöd refers to cutting throughEstablishing Appearances as Divine, a concise treatise by the eleventh century Tibetan Buddhist philosopher Rongzom Chkyi Zangpo, sets out to prove the provocative point that everything that appears is actually deity manifest. Many books on Tibetan Buddhism address the important themes of mind training, compassion, and proper conduct, but this penetrating study and translation of Rongzoms text goes beyond that in its aim to bring the reader face to