Terdak Lingpa
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གཏེར་བདག་གླིང་པ་
gter bdag gling pa
Minling Terdak Lingpa Gyurme Dorje
སྨིན་གླིང་གཏེར་བདག་གླིང་པ་འགྱུར་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་
smin gling gter bdag gling pa 'gyur med rdo rje
Brief Biography
Terdak Lingpa (gter bdag gling pa) (1646 - 1714)
- One of the greatest Tertons of the Nyingma School and founder of Mindrolling Monastery, one of the six main Nyingma Gompas.
- Minling Terchen Terdak Lingpa, Gyurme Dorje (smin gling gter chen gter bdag gling pa 'gyur med rdo rje, 1646-1714).
- A disciple as well as a teacher of the fifth Dalai Lama, Terdak Lingpa revealed major termas, compiled the canonical scriptures of the Nyingma tradition (rnying ma bka' ma), and, with his brother Minling Lochen Dharma Shri (smin gling lo chen dharma sri, 1654-1718), played a major role in ensuring the continuity of the exegetical tradition of the Guhyagarbha Tantra (Tantra of the Secret Quintessence, NGB, vol. 14, no. 187). [MR-ShabkarNotes]
- Minling Terchen, Terdag Lingpa, Gyurme Dorje: 1646-1714 [RY]
- 1646-1714 - Minling Terchen, Gyurme Dorje, Terdak Lingpa, a leading master of the Nyingma tradition [RY]
- 1646-1714 - Gyurme Dorje. See Minling Terchen. (RY)