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Chöying Tobden Dorje

ཆོས་དབྱིངས་སྟོབས་ལྡན་རྡོ་རྗེ་

1785 – 1848

Choying Tobden Dorje was a brilliant Vajrayana master of eastern Tibet. His masterwork, The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, remains the main text studied by Tibet’s Ngakpa lineages of lay Buddhist yogi-practitioners. (Source Accessed Feb 14, 2020)

Other names

• ཨ་ལགས་རྒྱལ་པོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• a lags rgyal po · other names (Wylie)
• Alak Gyalpo · other names

Affiliations & relations

• Dzogchen Drubwang, 4th · teacher

Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib. རྙིང་མ་

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tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt. तन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད། Ch. 密宗

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Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt. महासन्धि Tib. རྫོགས་ཆེན།

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