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'''Kathang''' (Tib. བཀའ་ཐང་, Wyl. ''bka’ thang'') or 'Chronicles' in English, is a Tibetan literary genre that usually, although not exclusively, refers to the biographies of [[Padmasambhava]] concealed as ''[[terma]]'' or hidden treasures and revealed by a ''[[tertön]]'' at a particular time.
'''Kathang''' (Tib. བཀའ་ཐང་, [[Wyl.]] ''bka’ thang'') or 'Chronicles' in English, is a Tibetan literary genre that usually, although not exclusively, refers to the biographies of [[Padmasambhava]] concealed as ''[[terma]]'' or hidden treasures and revealed by a ''[[tertön]]'' at a particular time.


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Latest revision as of 13:32, 20 August 2017

Kathang (Tib. བཀའ་ཐང་, Wyl. bka’ thang) or 'Chronicles' in English, is a Tibetan literary genre that usually, although not exclusively, refers to the biographies of Padmasambhava concealed as terma or hidden treasures and revealed by a tertön at a particular time.

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