GURU RINPOCHE TERMA
Terma — spiritual treasureshidden by Guru Rinpoche a
nd Yeshe Tsogyal in the earth and in the minds of disciples to be revealed at the appropriate time by ‘treasure revealers’ or tertöns. Many of these གཏེར་, ter were collected by Jamgön Kongtrul and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpointo more than sixty volumes, the Rinchen Terdzö, or Treasury of Precious Termas. The Terma lineage, together with the Nyingma Kama, are the two modes of transmission of the teachings of theNyingma School.
Tulku Thondup writes:
- “In order to prevent the deep teachings and sacred objects oftantra from becoming mixed, diluted, or lost in the distant future, and in order to maintain their blessing powers afresh for future followers, Guru Rinpoche and Yeshe Tsogyal concealed them. They are discovered at the appropriate time by realized masters through their enlightened power.”[
- Termas are divided into two categories, according to the manner in which they were concealed and discovered:
- earth termas (Tib. ས་གཏེར་, sa ter), which employ physical objects, and
- mind termas (Tib. དགོངས་གཏེར་, gong ter), discovered within the mindstream of the tertön.
In the discovery of earth termas, earthly materials such as symbolic script written on yellow scroll are used to awaken the terma in the mind of the tertön. In the discovery of mind termas, no external earthly objects are relied on. In many instances of mind terma, seeing or hearing symbolic words or sounds in visions causes the discovery of the terma. 
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