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==The Four Kinds of Teacher (Tib. བླ་མ་རྣམ་པ་བཞི་, ''lama nampa shyi'')==
==The Four Kinds of Teacher (Tib. བླ་མ་རྣམ་པ་བཞི་, ''lama nampa shyi'')==
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==Alternative Translations==
*spiritual mentor (Wallace)


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Revision as of 17:13, 4 April 2011

Lama (Skt. guru; Tib. བླ་མ་, Wyl. bla ma as the contraction of བླ་ན་མེད་པ་, bla na med pa) — a spiritual teacher.

The Four Kinds of Teacher (Tib. བླ་མ་རྣམ་པ་བཞི་, lama nampa shyi)

  1. 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)
  2. the teacher which is the word of the buddhas (Tib. རྒྱལ་བ་བཀའ་ཡི་བླ་མ་, gyalwa ka yi lama, Wyl. rgyal ba bka' yi bla ma)
  3. the symbolic teacher of all appearances (Tib. སྣང་བ་བརྡ་ཡི་བླ་མ་, nangwa da yi lama, Wyl. snang ba brda yi bla ma)
  4. the absolute teacher, which is rigpa, the true nature of mind (Tib. རིག་པ་དོན་གྱི་བླ་མ་, rigpa dön gyi lama, Wyl. rig pa don gyi bla ma)

Alternative Translations

  • spiritual mentor (Wallace)

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