Nyingma (Tibetan: རྙིང་མ་, Wylie: rnying ma, Lhasa dialect: [ɲiŋma], lit. 'old school'), often referred to as Ngangyur (Tibetan: སྔ་འགྱུར་རྙིང་མ།, Wylie:...

is classical Tibetan. Tibetan Buddhism has four major schools, namely Nyingma (8th century), Kagyu (11th century), Sakya (1073), and Gelug (1409). The...

Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug. It is one of the Red Hat Orders along with the Nyingma and Kagyu. The name Sakya ("pale earth")...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tibetan characters. Nyingma Gyubum (Tibetan: རྙིང་མ་རྒྱུད་འབུམ, Wylie: rnying ma rgyud ‘bum, Collected...

Mahayana, which provide a faster vehicle to liberation. For example, the Nyingma scholar Ju Mipham writes that secret mantra has a "distinctive abundance...

A vast system of transmission lineages developed. Scriptures from the Nyingma school were updated by terma discoveries, and terma teachings have guided...

Translation) schools categorize tantric scriptures into four classes, while the Nyingma (Ancients) school use six classes of tantra. The Sarma, "New Translation"...

"essentially a variant of Tibetan Buddhism" with many resemblances to Nyingma, it also preserves some genuinely ancient pre-Buddhist elements. David...

Tsogyal and Mandarava. The contemporary Nyingma school considers Padmasambhava to be a founding figure. The Nyingma school also traditionally holds that...

for several Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and supportive centres of the Nyingma school, the Karma Kagyu school, and the Sakya school, located either in...

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...

ನಮ್ಡ್ರೋಲಿಂಗ್ ವಿಹಾರ (Namdroling Vihara) is the largest teaching center of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in the world. Located in Bylakuppe, part of...

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...

interpretive etymology. The eight Herukas (Wylie: sgrub pa bka’ brgyad) of the Nyingma mahayoga tradition (and their corresponding sadhanas) are said to have...

term Ādibuddha is often used to describe the Buddha Samantabhadra (in Nyingma), Vajradhara or Kalachakra (in the Sarma schools). There was also a tradition...

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...

introduced shentong into the Nyingma tradition. While shentong is not a widely held view in Nyingma, some important Nyingma scholars have defended shentong...

include special robes, ornaments, and ritual objects. Traditionally, many Nyingma ngakpas wear uncut hair and white robes and these are sometimes called...

the mahamudra traditions of the Kagyu and the dzogchen traditions of the Nyingma. The mind teachings of Tibet are generally believed to have originated...

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...

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...

honorific title conferred on a monk, nun or a lay person (especially in the Nyingma, Kagyu and Sakya schools) advanced tantric practitioner to designate a...

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...

as Fugen, and is often venerated in Tendai and Shingon Buddhism. In the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, Samantabhadra is also the name of the Adi-Buddha...

Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhist and Bon spiritual traditions. In the Vajrayana Nyingma school tradition, two lineages occur: an oral kama lineage and a revealed...

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...

universalism. Teachers from all branches of Tibetan Buddhism – Sakya, Kagyu, Nyingma, Jonang, Gelug, and Bon – have been involved in the promoting Rimé ideals...

Monastery (in the Nyingma tradition). Bylakuppe also has many Buddhist universities for advanced Buddhist practices. Namdroling Monastery of Nyingma Also known...

Nyinsma school's monastic orders facing persecution and internal exile. Nyingma monasteries were alleged to have only persevered in Amdo, then largely...

"Mipham the Great") was a very influential philosopher and polymath of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He wrote over 32 volumes on topics such as...