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'''Seven authoritative transmissions''' (Tib. [[བཀའ་བབས་བདུན་]], ''ka bab dün''; [[Wyl.]] ''bka' babs bdun'') received by [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]] and [[Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa]]:
'''Seven authoritative transmissions''' (Tib. [[བཀའ་བབས་བདུན་]], ''ka bab dün''; [[Wyl.]] ''bka' babs bdun'') received by [[Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo]] and [[Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa]]:


#''[[kama]]'' (Tib. [[བཀའ་མ་]], Wyl. ''bka' ma'') — the continuous transmission of [[sutra]] and [[tantra]]
#''[[kama]]'': the continuous transmission of [[sutra]] and [[tantra]]
#''[[sa ter]]'' (Tib. [[ས་གཏེར་]], Wyl. ''sa gter'') — earth treasures
#''[[sa ter]]'': earth treasures
#''[[yang ter]]'' (Tib. [[ཡང་གཏེར་]], Wyl. ''yang gter'') — rediscovered treasures
#''[[yang ter]]'': rediscovered treasures
#''[[gong ter]]'' (Tib. [[དགོངས་གཏེར་]], Wyl. ''dgongs gter'') — mind treasures
#''[[gong ter]]'': mind treasures
#''[[nyen gyü]]'' (Tib. [[སྙན་བརྒྱུད་]], Wyl. ''snyan brgyud'') — oral transmission
#''[[nyen gyü]]'': oral transmission
#''[[dak nang]]'' (Tib. [[དག་སྣང་]], Wyl. ''dag snang'') — visionary revelations or 'pure visions'
#''[[dak nang]]'': visionary revelations or 'pure visions'
#''[[jé dren]]'' (Tib. [[རྗེས་དྲན་]], Wyl. ''rjes dran'') — revelations from memory
#''[[jé dren]]'': revelations from memory


==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==

Revision as of 11:13, 14 February 2022

Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

Seven authoritative transmissions (Tib. བཀའ་བབས་བདུན་, ka bab dün; Wyl. bka' babs bdun) received by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa:

  1. kama: the continuous transmission of sutra and tantra
  2. sa ter: earth treasures
  3. yang ter: rediscovered treasures
  4. gong ter: mind treasures
  5. nyen gyü: oral transmission
  6. dak nang: visionary revelations or 'pure visions'
  7. jé dren: revelations from memory

Alternative Translations

  • Seven orders of teachings (Tulku Thondup)
  • Seven successions of the transmitted precepts (Dorje & Kapstein)

Oral Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

Further Reading

  • Andreas Doctor, Tibetan Treasure Literature: Revelation, Tradition and Accomplishment in Visionary Buddhism, Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005, pp.84-101