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*teurang (Tib. ཐེའུ་རང་, Wyl. ''the'u rang'')
*teurang (Tib. ཐེའུ་རང་, Wyl. ''the'u rang'')


According to [[Nubchen Sangye Yeshe]]'s  “''Dergye Serkyem''” (Tib. སྡེ་བརྒྱད་གསེར་སྐྱེམས་, Wyl: ''sde brgyad gser skyems''), “''Offering of Golden Drink to the Eight Classes''”, there are six series of eightfold groups of spirits. <ref>*[[Dudjom Rinpoche]], '''The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Volume'' 2.' For a detailed description see pages 158-159</ref>
According to [[Nupchen Sangye Yeshe|Nubchen Sangye Yeshe]]'s  “''Dergye Serkyem''” (Tib. སྡེ་བརྒྱད་གསེར་སྐྱེམས་, Wyl: ''sde brgyad gser skyems''), “''Offering of Golden Drink to the Eight Classes''”, there are six series of eightfold groups of spirits. <ref>*[[Dudjom Rinpoche]], '''The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Volume'' 2.' For a detailed description see pages 158-159</ref>


==References==
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Eight classes of gods and demons (Tib. ལྷ་འདྲེ་སྡེ་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. lha 'dre sde brgyad) — a classification of worldly spirits. There are many different classifications; one of them is:

On an inner level, they correspond to the eight consciousnesses.

Alternative Classifications

Alternative classifications include gods and demons such as:

According to Nubchen Sangye Yeshe's “Dergye Serkyem” (Tib. སྡེ་བརྒྱད་གསེར་སྐྱེམས་, Wyl: sde brgyad gser skyems), “Offering of Golden Drink to the Eight Classes”, there are six series of eightfold groups of spirits. [1]

References

  1. ↑ *Dudjom Rinpoche, 'The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Volume 2.' For a detailed description see pages 158-159


Further Reading

  • Revue d'Études Tibétaines, Number 2, April 2003 - Numéro spécial Lha srin sde brgyad
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