Terchen

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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).