Nyingma (Tibetan: རྙིང་མ་, Wylie: rnying ma, Lhasa dialect: [ɲiŋma], lit. 'old school'), often referred to as Ngangyur (Tibetan: སྔ་འགྱུར་རྙིང་མ།, Wylie:... 50 KB (6,368 words) - 10:33, 28 March 2024 |
is classical Tibetan. Tibetan Buddhism has four major schools, namely Nyingma (8th century), Kagyu (11th century), Sakya (1073), and Gelug (1409). The... 131 KB (15,164 words) - 20:08, 14 April 2024 |
Translation) schools categorize tantric scriptures into four classes, while the Nyingma (Ancients) school use six classes of tantra. The Sarma, "New Translation"... 28 KB (3,766 words) - 14:39, 7 April 2024 |
Padmasambhava (category Nyingma) Tsogyal and Mandarava. The contemporary Nyingma school considers Padmasambhava to be a founding figure. The Nyingma school also traditionally holds that... 68 KB (7,523 words) - 12:35, 27 April 2024 |
Tertön (section Prominent Nyingma tertöns) A vast system of transmission lineages developed. Scriptures from the Nyingma school were updated by terma discoveries, and terma teachings have guided... 8 KB (967 words) - 07:35, 28 February 2024 |
Mahayana, which provide a faster vehicle to liberation. For example, the Nyingma scholar Ju Mipham writes that secret mantra has a "distinctive abundance... 40 KB (5,258 words) - 19:45, 18 March 2024 |
"essentially a variant of Tibetan Buddhism" with many resemblances to Nyingma, it also preserves some genuinely ancient pre-Buddhist elements. David... 71 KB (9,487 words) - 09:50, 24 April 2024 |
Dream yoga (section Nyingma lineage) to lucid dream) and uses this skill to practice yoga in the dream. The Nyingma lineage holds that there are 'Seven transmissions' (Tibetan: bka' babs... 18 KB (2,567 words) - 03:35, 29 April 2024 |
Namdroling Monastery (category Nyingma monasteries and temples) ನಮ್ಡ್ರೋಲಿಂಗ್ ವಿಹಾರ (Namdroling Vihara) is the largest teaching center of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in the world. Located in Bylakuppe, part of... 8 KB (760 words) - 15:11, 3 January 2024 |
namely Nyingma, Sakya and Kagyu. The fourth school is Gelug and is known as the Yellow Hat sect. A minority consider only the eldest school, the Nyingma school... 916 bytes (102 words) - 21:35, 1 February 2024 |
Adi-Buddha (section In the Nyingma (Ancient) School) term Ādibuddha is often used to describe the Buddha Samantabhadra (in Nyingma), Vajradhara or Kalachakra (in the Sarma schools). There was also a tradition... 14 KB (1,728 words) - 15:05, 6 January 2024 |
Heruka (section Eight Herukas of the Nyingma Mahayoga) interpretive etymology. The eight Herukas (Wylie: sgrub pa bka’ brgyad) of the Nyingma mahayoga tradition (and their corresponding sadhanas) are said to have... 5 KB (625 words) - 13:16, 2 October 2023 |
Mind teachings of Tibet (category Nyingma) the mahamudra traditions of the Kagyu and the dzogchen traditions of the Nyingma. The mind teachings of Tibet are generally believed to have originated... 68 KB (9,555 words) - 17:05, 18 January 2024 |
well as in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism (where it is classed as Anuttarayoga Tantra in Kagyu and Anuyoga in Nyingma). Also known as... 22 KB (2,774 words) - 04:52, 8 December 2023 |
Rangtong and shentong (section In Nyingma) introduced shentong into the Nyingma tradition. While shentong is not a widely held view in Nyingma, some important Nyingma scholars have defended shentong... 49 KB (6,091 words) - 11:24, 23 April 2024 |
include special robes, ornaments, and ritual objects. Traditionally, many Nyingma ngakpas wear uncut hair and white robes and these are sometimes called... 9 KB (1,032 words) - 10:37, 27 March 2024 |
Penor Rinpoche (category Nyingma lamas) 27 March 2009, was the 11th throneholder of the Palyul Lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, and said to be an incarnation of Vimalamitra... 20 KB (2,142 words) - 06:59, 25 November 2023 |
Lojong (section The seven lojongs in Nyingma) There is also another set of eight lojong slogans by Langri Tangpa. In the Nyingma tradition, there is a list of seven lojong slogans which are part of the... 24 KB (3,175 words) - 22:31, 31 January 2024 |
Deity yoga (section Completion in Nyingma) and Mipham divide the Nyingma completion stage into the path of method (thabs lam) or the path of liberation ('grol lam). In Nyingma, path of method practices... 67 KB (9,353 words) - 21:05, 27 March 2024 |
Rimé movement (category Nyingma) universalism. Teachers from all branches of Tibetan Buddhism – Sakya, Kagyu, Nyingma, Jonang, Gelug, and Bon – have been involved in the promoting Rimé ideals... 31 KB (3,954 words) - 06:24, 1 January 2024 |
Terma (religion) (category Nyingma) Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhist and Bon spiritual traditions. In the Vajrayana Nyingma school tradition, two lineages occur: an oral kama lineage and a revealed... 16 KB (2,162 words) - 09:51, 24 April 2024 |
government supported both Kagyu and Nyingma Buddhist monasteries. The royal family practiced a combination of Nyingma and Kagyu Buddhism and many citizens... 9 KB (932 words) - 14:46, 11 April 2024 |
Simhamukha (section Nyingma) transmission, one in the Nyingma and another in the Sakya school. Although according to the tertön Nyangral Nyima Özer, the Nyingma Simhamukha is based on... 11 KB (1,217 words) - 15:13, 6 April 2023 |
the few surviving Buchen Lamas of the Nyingma school. After Taklung Setrung Rinpoche, the head of the Nyingma sect and a noted scholar of the Tibetan... 57 KB (5,992 words) - 17:47, 6 April 2024 |