Terma (Tibetan: གཏེར་མ, Wylie: gter ma; "hidden treasure") are various forms of hidden teachings that are key to Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhist and Bon...

Terma can refer to: Terma (religion), traditions of revelation in Tibetan Buddhism, Bön and the Greater Himalayan region "Terma" (The X-Files), an episode...

ordained himself into Bon during a time when the religion was in decline and for having hidden away many Bon termas. Bon tradition holds that he was the father...

called Termas, which allows the treasure discoverers or tertöns to reveal new timely scriptures. Many Nyingma lineages are based on particular termas. For...

affairs, religion, to arts and morality; the writings are called Sift Text or '乩文'. Direct revelation General revelation Tertön Terma (religion) Smith,...

revealed a terma known as The Brilliance (Wylie: gzi brjid), which contained the story of Tonpa Shenrab. He was not the first Bonpo tertön, but his terma became...

study the Shambhala terma text, The Golden Sun of the Great East, and receive the practices of the "stroke of ashé" (said to be a terma through Trungpa)...

are not established outside of one's mind." Ian Baker writes that Tibetan terma literature such as the Vima Nyingtik describes "various concoctions of mind...

philosophy Problem of evil Veil of Isis, similar concept in ancient Egyptian religion प्रकृतिपुरुष योरन्यत्सर्वमनित्यम् ॥७२॥ Grimes, John A. (1996). A Concise...

all the Tibetan spirits and gods, and concealing various secret texts (terma) for future tertöns. Nyangral Nyima Özer (1124–1192) was the author of the...

tapas) is a variety of austere spiritual meditation practices in Indian religions. In Jainism, it means asceticism (austerities, body mortification); in...

of Ling" and "evoke the cosmology of native Tibetan religion, not Buddhism." His Shambhala terma feature Shiwa Okar as an iṣṭhadevatā (Wylie: yi dam)...

revealed terma with Padmasambhava and was also the main scribe for these terma. Later, Yeshe Tsogyal also hid many of Padmasambhava's terma on her own...

Buddhism meaning a person who is a discoverer of ancient hidden texts or terma. Many tertöns are considered to be incarnations of the twenty five main...

state'), commonly known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, is a terma text from a larger corpus of teachings, the Profound Dharma of Self-Liberation...

BUUD-ih-zəm, US also /ˈbuːd-/ BOOD-), also known as Buddha Dharma, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha...

Pali: dhammacakka) or wheel of dharma is a symbol used in the Dharmic religions. It has a widespread use in Buddhism. In Hinduism, the symbol is particularly...

Tibet. The story of Tonpa Shenrab was revealed in a fourteenth century terma of Loden Nyingpo. "[Shenrab Miwo] occupies a position very similar to that...

Longchen Nyingtik terma were awakened in his mind. Jigme Lingpa kept this terma secret for years, and he did not even transcribe the terma until he entered...

objects to be found when times are ripen. These hidden objects are known as "terma" and the finder, usually a dakini, is known as a "terton". Dakinis, feminine...

Won Buddhism (Korean: 원불교; Hanja: 圓佛敎) is a modern Buddhist religion originating in Korea. The name "Won Buddhism" comes from the Korean words 원/圓 won ("circle")...

mountain ascetic hermits. They are generally part of the syncretic shugendō religion, which includes Tantric Buddhist, Shinto Their origins can be traced back...

This list of Buddhism by country shows the distribution of the Buddhist religion, practiced by about 535 million people as of the 2010s, representing 7%...

'mind termas,' which are 'discovered' in the mind of the tertön. The Nyingma school (and Bön tradition) has a large terma literature. Many of the terma texts...

the god Vishnu, who came to Earth to delude beings away from the Vedic religion. Some Non-denominational and Quranist Muslims believe he was a prophet...

Translation" (Sarma) lineages as well as the appearance of "hidden treasures" (terma) literature which reshaped the Nyingma tradition. In 1042 the Bengali saint...

Tantra, the Nyingmapa specialize in the various so called Old Tantras and terma cycles, and the most important Kagyudpa and Gelugpa tantras are Guhyasamāja...

(Sanskrit: acintya). It is particularly referred to by the terma Gongpa Zangtel, a terma cycle revealed by Rigdzin Gödem (1337–1408) and part of the...

Tsogyal recorded Padmasambhava's complete teaching and concealed it as a terma. It was discovered, translated then reconcealed. The translation was rediscovered...

Buddhism is the largest officially recognized and the most prevalent religion in China. Estimates from 2023 suggest that of the entire Chinese population...