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The '''Nyingma Kama''' ([[wyl.]] ''rnying ma bka' ma''), the Oral Transmission Lineage of the [[Nyingma]], is together with the [[terma]] the two modes of transmission of the [[vajrayana]] teachings of the Nyingma School.
The '''Nyingma Kama''' ([[wyl.]] ''rnying ma bka' ma''), the Oral Transmission Lineage of the [[Nyingma]], is together with the [[terma]] the two modes of transmission of the [[vajrayana]] teachings of the Nyingma School.


Kama is often referred to as the 'long lineage' (Tib. ''ring gyü''), and terma the 'short lineage' (Tib. ''nye gyü'') because the Kama is the oral transmission passed from master to master ever since the first appearance of a particular teaching. The terma teachings, on the other hand, were concealed by [[Padmasambhava]] and then revealed centuries later, so that there is a direct transmission from [[Guru Rinpoche]] to the [[tertön]] in question.
[[Sogyal Rinpoche]] writes:


The Kama lineage consists of the unbroken oral lineage of transmissions related to the tantras of [[Mahayoga]], [[Anuyoga]], and [[Atiyoga]]. In the seventeenth century [[Orgyen Terdak Lingpa]] and his brother [[Lochen Dharmashri]] gathered the Nyingma Kama texts and compiled them into a 58 volume collection in order to preserve them.
:"The Kama, or canonical teachings, have been transmitted in an unbroken lineage from the primordial Buddha [[Samantabhadra]] down to the present day. Earlier on they were maintained in Tibet by [[Padmasambhava]]’s disciples [[Nyak Jñanakumara]] and [[Nubchen Sangyé Yeshé]], and later (from the eleventh century onwards) by the masters of the Zur family. There developed two Kama lineages in Tibet, the Rong lineage of Central Tibet and the Kham lineage of Eastern Tibet, which were brought together by [[Terdak Lingpa]] (1646–1714) in the late seventeenth century. The Kama teachings collected by Terdak Lingpa and his brother [[Lochen Dharmashri]] (1654–1717/8) were later expanded in the monasteries of [[Dzogchen monastery|Dzogchen]] and [[Palyul]], and finally published in forty volumes by Kyabjé [[Dudjom Rinpoche]]."<ref>Dzogchen and Padmasambhava</ref>
 
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Revision as of 09:56, 25 June 2007

The Nyingma Kama (wyl. rnying ma bka' ma), the Oral Transmission Lineage of the Nyingma, is together with the terma the two modes of transmission of the vajrayana teachings of the Nyingma School.

Sogyal Rinpoche writes:

"The Kama, or canonical teachings, have been transmitted in an unbroken lineage from the primordial Buddha Samantabhadra down to the present day. Earlier on they were maintained in Tibet by Padmasambhava’s disciples Nyak Jñanakumara and Nubchen Sangyé Yeshé, and later (from the eleventh century onwards) by the masters of the Zur family. There developed two Kama lineages in Tibet, the Rong lineage of Central Tibet and the Kham lineage of Eastern Tibet, which were brought together by Terdak Lingpa (1646–1714) in the late seventeenth century. The Kama teachings collected by Terdak Lingpa and his brother Lochen Dharmashri (1654–1717/8) were later expanded in the monasteries of Dzogchen and Palyul, and finally published in forty volumes by Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche."[1]

Notes

  1. Dzogchen and Padmasambhava