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<noinclude>'''Four kinds of teacher''' or '''[[lama]]''' (Tib. བླ་མ་རྣམ་པ་གཞི་, ''lama nampa shyi''; [[Wyl.]] ''bla ma rnam pa bzhi'') —</noinclude>
<noinclude>'''Four kinds of teacher''' or '''[[lama]]''' (Tib. བླ་མ་རྣམ་པ་གཞི་, ''lama nampa shyi'', [[Wyl.]] ''bla ma rnam pa bzhi'') —</noinclude>
#Tib. གང་ཟག་བརྒྱུད་པའི་བླ་མ་, ''gangzak gyüpé lama'' (Wyl. ''gang zag brgyud pa'i bla ma'') - the individual teacher who is the holder of the lineage
#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'')
#Tib. 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
#the teacher which is the word of the [[buddha]]s (Tib. རྒྱལ་བ་བཀའ་ཡི་བླ་མ་, ''gyalwa ka yi lama'', Wyl. ''rgyal ba bka' yi bla ma'')
#Tib. སྣང་བ་བརྡ་ཡི་བླ་མ་, ''nangwa da yi lama'' (Wyl. ''snang ba brda yi bla ma'') - the symbolic teacher of all appearances
#the symbolic teacher of all appearances (Tib. སྣང་བ་བརྡ་ཡི་བླ་མ་, ''nangwa da yi lama'', Wyl. ''snang ba brda yi bla ma'')
#Tib. རིག་པ་དོན་གྱི་བླ་མ་, ''rigpa dön gyi lama'' (Wyl. ''rig pa don gyi bla ma'') - the absolute teacher, which is [[rigpa]], the true nature of mind<noinclude>
#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'')<noinclude>
 
==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], Myall Lakes, Australia, 26 January 2008


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==
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*[[Dzogchen Ponlop]], ''Wild Awakening'' (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2003), pages 51-55.  
*[[Dzogchen Ponlop]], ''Wild Awakening'' (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2003), pages 51-55.  


==Sogyal Rinpoche's Teachings on the Four Kinds of Teacher==
==Internal Links==
*Myall Lakes, 26 January 2008, 12.00
*[[six kinds of teacher]]


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Latest revision as of 10:20, 1 November 2020

Four kinds of teacher or lama (Tib. བླ་མ་རྣམ་པ་གཞི་, lama nampa shyi, Wyl. bla ma rnam pa bzhi) —

  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)

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

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.

Internal Links