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*The practice of [[guru yoga]] | *The practice of [[guru yoga]] | ||
*[['The Guru Question']]—[[Drukchen Rinpoche]] explains in an interview that was carried out for Rigpa's ''View'' magazine in 1997, what the guru or lama really is from the [[Vajrayana]] point of view. | *[['The Guru Question']]—[[Drukchen Rinpoche]] explains in an interview that was carried out for Rigpa's [[View magazine|''View'' magazine]] in 1997, what the guru or lama really is from the [[Vajrayana]] point of view. | ||
[[Category:Key Terms]] | [[Category:Key Terms]] | ||
[[Category:Titles]] | [[Category:Titles]] | ||
Revision as of 20:09, 16 August 2009
Lama (Skt. guru; Wyl. bla ma) — a spiritual teacher.
The Four Kinds of Teacher (Tib. lama nampa shyi)
- 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)
Internal Links
- The practice of guru yoga
- 'The Guru Question'—Drukchen Rinpoche explains in an interview that was carried out for Rigpa's View magazine in 1997, what the guru or lama really is from the Vajrayana point of view.