mi nub rgyal mtshan rje btsan dam pa rdo rje 'od 'phro ba'i rgyud: 1 definition

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Source: SOAS: A critical study of the thirteen later translations of the Dzogchen mind series

mi nub rgyal mtshan rje btsan dam pa rdo rje 'od 'phro ba'i rgyud (མི་ནུབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་རྗེ་བཙན་དམ་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་འོད་འཕྲོ་བའི་རྒྱུད) refers to one of the “Eighteen Major Scriptures” of the Mind Series (Semde) according to the Tsamdrak [mtshams brag] edition of the Nyingma Gyubum [rNying ma'i rgyud 'bum]—a collection of Vajrayana texts reflecting the teachings of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.—In mTshams brag, the 18 texts follow after the kun byed rgyal po, the first text in the first volume. Tradition regards this as the fundamental tantra of the rDzogs chen Mind Series. The Eighteen Texts in this edition are, [e.g., mi nub rgyal mtshan rje btsan dam pa rdo rje 'od 'phro ba'i rgyud]

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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