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'''Terchen''' ([[Wyl.]] ''gter chen'') is an honorific name for [[tertön]]s, meaning 'great tertön'.
'''Terchen''' (Tib. གཏེར་ཆེན་, [[Wyl.]] ''gter chen'') [[tertön]]s who have revealed [[terma]]s from all three cycles of the [[Avalokiteshvara|Great Compassionate One]], Lama [[Guru Rinpoche]], and [[Dzogchen]] are given the honorific name ''terchen'' or 'great' (''chen'') 'tertön' (''ter'').


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Terchen (Tib. གཏེར་ཆེན་, Wyl. gter chen) — tertöns who have revealed termas from all three cycles of the Great Compassionate One, Lama Guru Rinpoche, and Dzogchen are given the honorific name terchen or 'great' (chen) 'tertön' (ter).