Description
This book contains a translation
of an important text, entitled Wonder
Ocean (Ngo mTshar rGya mTsho)
written by the Third Dodrupchen
Rinpoche (1865-1926) with a detailed
commentary by Tulku Thondup. It
explains the tradition of concealing
and discovering Ter (gTer, hidden
treasures) teachings and objects,
a tradition initiated by the enlightened
power of Guru Padmasambhava, the
Indian Buddhist adept who established
Buddhism in Tibet in the ninth century.
The Nyingmapa school of Tibetan
Buddhism is the richest Buddhist
tradition in terms of teachings
and religious objects revealed as
Ter. This book explains the different
classes of Ter discoveries, "Earth
Ter" (Sa gTer), "Mind
Ter" (dGongs gTer) and "Pure
Vision" (Dag sNang) teachings.
It details the complete process
by which teachings are concealed
and then discovered. This book has
become the source book on the Ter
tradition in English.
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| Table
of Contents
Part One:
Buddhism and Terma Tradition
Part Two:
Transmissions of Esoteric (Tantric)
Teachings
Part Three:
Termas: Purpose of Concealment and
Discovery
Part
Four: The Text of Wonder Ocean
The
Author of Wonder Ocean (the Third
Dodrupchen Rinpoche)
1. Authenticity
and Transmission
2. Script,
Concealment and Protection
3. Terma
Texts and Scripts
4. Classification
and Transcription of Terma Scripts
5. Discovery
and Reconcealment of Termas
6. Purpose
and Greatness of Concealment
7. False
Termas
8. Tertons
and Doctrine-holders
9. Mind
and Earth Termas
10. Terma
System in the New Tantric Tradition
11. Purpose
of this Texts, and Colophon
APPENDICES
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Reviews |
| Reviewer |
Excerpt
of Review |
Stephen
Batchelor, author of Buddhism
Without Beliefs and Verses from
the Center
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"This
important and original book
clarifies one of the least understood
aspects of Tibetan Buddhism:
the terma tradition."
“A marvelously lucid work
on...this little understood
tradition of Buddhist yoga." |
| Yoga
World |
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| Media
Resources, October 1999 |
"[A]
superb outline of the secret
Terma tradition... [It is] erudite,
comprehensive, and full of scholarship
and insight, yet at the same
time is approachable and offers
a good overview of Vajrayana
as well as specific information
on the Termas. It is well-presented
and illustrated, and is a title
you will read more than once.
This is a lot of wisdom packed
within its 300 pages..." |
Matthew
Kapstein, Professor, Columbia
University, translator of The
Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism
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"The
tradition of terma should be
of more than passing interest
to Western students of the Tibetan
Buddhist traditions: a great
many of us practice at least
some such teachings, and sometimes
our practice is entirely based
upon them. Despite the proliferation
of teachings derived from termas,
however, there has been an almost
total lack of information concerning
the genre of terma itself. This
book helps to fill that void."
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