sems can gyi snyigs ma: 1 definition
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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Source: SOAS: Guhyagarbhatantra and its XIVth century commentarysems can gyi snyigs ma (སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་སྙིགས་མ) in Tibetan refers to “the impurity of sentient beings” and is known in Sanskrit as Sattvakaṣāya. It represents one of the “Five Impurities” which are known in Tibetan as snyigs ma lnga. They are defined in the sgyu-'phrul rgya-mtsho of volume 15 of the rnying-ma'i rg.yud-'bum (Collected Tantras of the rNying-ma-pa).—[Cf. the Mahāvyutpatti 2335-2340].
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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Full-text: Sattvakashaya, Sattva, Five impurities.
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The Great Chariot (by Longchenpa)
Part 3 - Why they are the four tantras taught to those to be tamed < [A. Resolving the view]
Bodhisattvacharyavatara (by Andreas Kretschmar)
Text Section 168 < [Khenpo Chöga’s Oral Explanations]
Text Section 39 < [Khenpo Chöga’s Oral Explanations]
Guhyagarbha Tantra (with Commentary) (by Gyurme Dorje)
4b. Tantra-texts of the Māyājāla cycle < [Introduction]