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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Experience: The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhismrtsal chen 'brug pa (རྩལ་ཆེན་འབྲུག་པ) refers to one of the “Eighteen Esoteric Instructions (of the Mental Class)” which are known in Tibetan as: sems-sde bco-brgyad.—[Cf. (1) gdams-ngag mdzod or “Store of Precious Instructions”, Vol. 1, pp. 159-371. (2) rnying-ma bka'-ma rgyas-pa or “Collected Transmitted Precepts of the Nyingmapa” Vol. 17].—Longcenpa in “The Treasury of Spiritual and Philosophical Systems”, pp. 357-8, lists the Tantras from which they are derived [e.g., rtsal-chen 'brug-pa].
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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