rig pa khu yug: 1 definition
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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
: Academia: The " Twenty or Eighteen " Texts of the Mind Seriesrig pa khu yug (རིག་པ་ཁུ་ཡུག) (or “the cuckoo of awareness�) refers to one of the �Eighteen Texts of the Mind Series� (Tibetan: sems sde bco rgyad)� the earliest known corpus of Dzogchen literature (also: “great perfection� or Atiyoga) in Nyingma Buddhism.—The many lists of the Eighteen Texts that emerged between the 9th and the 14th century differ in their contents, there is no canonical collection of texts within the rNying ma tradition that includes all of the eighteen texts. One list includes [e.g., “The Cuckoo of Awareness�; Tibetan: rig pa'i khu byug; here as: rig pa khu yug]. It is mentioned as one of the five early translations (lnga 'gyur lnga'o) in the 13th century lDe’u jo sras history.

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 (Բ) are collected indepently.
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Partial matches: Yug, Khu, Rig, Pa.
Full-text: Eighteen major scriptures.
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