Mesoscope’s Reviews > The Philosophical Foundations of Classical rDzogs chen in Tibet > Status Update

I don't think Higgins has been 100% successful in connecting the question of the difference between kun gzhi and chos sku to the deeper question he sees in it - what liberation means in Dzogchen. I think part two of this book would have been stronger and more interesting if he'd focused on the latter question, which is of much greater depth and import.

Soteriology is seen as a task of recovery or retrieval, a clearing process that brings to light what is already present though temporarily and adventitiously obscured. It emphasizes, in the words of Paul Ricoeur, "mind's attempt to recover its power of thinking, acting and feeling-a power that has, so to speak, been buried or lost-in the knowledge, practices, and feelings that exteriorize it in relation to itself."

I love that Higgins calls it *Prasangika-Madhyamaka. That actually shows some chutzpah.

Without a doubt the best and highest-calibre western scholarship on Dzogchen that I know of.