Seven authoritative transmissions
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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:
- kama (Tib. བཀའ་མ་, Wyl. bka' ma) — the continuous transmission of sutra and tantra
- sa ter (Tib. ས་གཏེར་, Wyl. sa gter) — earth treasures
- yang ter (Tib. ཡང་གཏེར་, Wyl. yang gter) — rediscovered treasures
- gong ter (Tib. དགོངས་གཏེར་, Wyl. dgongs gter) — mind treasures
- nyen gyü (Tib. སྙན་བརྒྱུད་, Wyl. snyan brgyud) — oral transmission
- dak nang (Tib. དག་སྣང་, Wyl. dag snang) — visionary revelations or 'pure visions'
- jé dren (Tib. རྗེས་དྲན་, Wyl. rjes dran) — revelations from memory
Alternative Translations
- Seven orders of teachings (Tulku Thondup)
- Seven successions of the transmitted precepts (Dorje & Kapstein)