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<noinclude>'''Four kinds of teacher''' or '''[[lama]]''' (Tib. ''lama nampa shyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''bla ma rnam pa bzhi'') —</noinclude>
<noinclude>'''Four kinds of teacher''' or '''[[lama]]''' (Tib. ''lama nampa shyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''bla ma rnam pa bzhi'') —</noinclude>
#''gangzak gyüpé lama'' (Wyl. ''gang zag brgyud pa'i bla ma'') - the individual teacher who is the holder of the lineage
#Tib. གང་ཟག་བརྒྱུད་པའི་བླ་མ་, ''gangzak gyüpé lama'' (Wyl. ''gang zag brgyud pa'i bla ma'') - the individual teacher who is the holder of the lineage
#''gyalwa ka yi lama'' (Wyl. ''rgyal ba bka' yi bla ma'') - the teacher which is the word of the [[buddha]]s
#Tib. རྒྱལ་བ་བཀའ་ཡི་བླ་མ་, ''gyalwa ka yi lama'' (Wyl. ''rgyal ba bka' yi bla ma'') - the teacher which is the word of the [[buddha]]s
#''nangwa da yi lama'' (Wyl. ''snang ba brda yi bla ma'') - the symbolic teacher of all appearances
#Tib. སྣང་བ་བརྡ་ཡི་བླ་མ་, ''nangwa da yi lama'' (Wyl. ''snang ba brda yi bla ma'') - the symbolic teacher of all appearances
#''rigpa dön gyi lama'' (Wyl. ''rig pa don gyi bla ma'') - the absolute teacher, which is [[rigpa]], the true nature of mind<noinclude>
#Tib. རིག་པ་དོན་གྱི་བླ་མ་, ''rigpa dön gyi lama'' (Wyl. ''rig pa don gyi bla ma'') - the absolute teacher, which is [[rigpa]], the true nature of mind<noinclude>


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==

Revision as of 09:59, 1 February 2011

Four kinds of teacher or lama (Tib. lama nampa shyi; Wyl. bla ma rnam pa bzhi) —

  1. Tib. གང་ཟག་བརྒྱུད་པའི་བླ་མ་, gangzak gyüpé lama (Wyl. gang zag brgyud pa'i bla ma) - the individual teacher who is the holder of the lineage
  2. Tib. རྒྱལ་བ་བཀའ་ཡི་བླ་མ་, gyalwa ka yi lama (Wyl. rgyal ba bka' yi bla ma) - the teacher which is the word of the buddhas
  3. Tib. སྣང་བ་བརྡ་ཡི་བླ་མ་, nangwa da yi lama (Wyl. snang ba brda yi bla ma) - the symbolic teacher of all appearances
  4. Tib. རིག་པ་དོན་གྱི་བླ་མ་, rigpa dön gyi lama (Wyl. rig pa don gyi bla ma) - the absolute teacher, which is rigpa, the true nature of mind

Further Reading

  • Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Indisputable Truth (Boudhanath, Hong Kong & Esby: Rangjung Yeshe, 1996), pages 16-17 & 79-80.
  • Dzogchen Ponlop, Wild Awakening (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2003), pages 51-55.

Sogyal Rinpoche's Teachings on the Four Kinds of Teacher

  • Myall Lakes, 26 January 2008, 12.00