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#the [[teacher which is the word of the buddha]]s (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[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 (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྒྱལ་བ་བཀའ་ཡི་བླ་མ་]]}}, ''[[gyalwa ka yi lama]]'', [[Wyl.]] ''[[rgyal ba bka' yi bla ma]]'') | ||
#the [[symbolic teacher of all appearances]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྣང་བ་བརྡ་ཡི་བླ་མ་]]}}, ''[[nangwa da yi lama]]'', [[Wyl.]] ''[[snang ba brda yi bla ma]]'') | #the [[symbolic teacher of all appearances]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྣང་བ་བརྡ་ཡི་བླ་མ་]]}}, ''[[nangwa da yi lama]]'', [[Wyl.]] ''[[snang ba brda yi bla ma]]'') | ||
| − | #the [[absolute teacher, which is rigpa, the true nature of mind]] | + | #the [[absolute teacher, which is rigpa, the true nature of mind]])] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རིག་པ་དོན་གྱི་བླ་མ་]]}}, ''[[rigpa dön gyi lama]]'', [[Wyl.]] ''[[rig pa don gyi bla ma]]'')<noinclude> |
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
Revision as of 19:34, 3 April 2016
Four kinds of teacher or lama (Tib. བླ་མ་རྣམ་པ་གཞི་, lama nampa shyi; Wyl. bla ma rnam pa bzhi) —
- 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 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)
- 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 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)
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.
