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[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � bde ba phra bkod kyi lung in Tibetan Buddhism glossary
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bde ba phra bkod kyi lung (བདེ་བ་ཕྲ་བཀོད་ཀྱི་ལུང) refers to “Jewel Studded Bliss Scripture� and refers to one of the �Eighteen Major Scriptures� also known as the “Eighteen Dzogchen Tantras� (of the Mind Section) which were taught by Shri Singha to Vairotsana and Lekdrub. The list of titles is found in chapter 14 of Sanglingma Life Story (by Nyang Ral Nyima Oser, 1124-1192) also published as The Lotus-Born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava (recorded by Yeshe Tsogyal). Found in Vol. KA of the Nyingma Gyübum (Cf. Erik Pema Kunsang).

: Academia: The " Twenty or Eighteen " Texts of the Mind Series

bde ba phra bkod kyi lung (བདེ་བ་ཕྲ་བཀོད་ཀྱི་ལུང) (or “the inlaid jewels of bliss�) 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 Inlaid Jewels of Bliss�; Tibetan: bde ba 'phra bkod; or: bde ba phra bkod kyi lung]. It is mentioned in the 12th century �The Copper Continent� compiled by the Tibetan scholar Nyang ral Nyi ma 'od zer.

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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 (Բ) are collected indepently.

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