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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'' | #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 [[buddha]]s (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'')<noinclude> | |||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
Revision as of 07:56, 4 March 2012
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.
Sogyal Rinpoche's Teachings on the Four Kinds of Teacher
- Myall Lakes, 26 January 2008, 12.00