Path: shell.portal.com!svc.portal.com!opentext.com!ia.mks.com!zephyr!info.ucla.edu!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news.jsums.edu!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!news1.radix.net!news From: Konchog Norbu Newsgroups: alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan,alt.magick.tantra,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.religion.buddhism,talk.religion.buddhism,talk.religion.misc,alt.magick.virtual-adepts,alt.necromicon Subject: Re: Rebirth and Tertons (Was Rebirth and Tradition (Was Re: Tibetean ...)) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 01:30:41 -0500 Organization: RadixNet Internet Services Lines: 8 Message-ID: <31369991.344C@radix.net> References: <4g11li$nv5@uwm.edu> <4h52rk$j09@jobe.shell.portal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin37.annex1.radix.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (Win95; I) Xref: shell.portal.com alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan:6845 alt.magick.tantra:785 alt.magick.tyagi:6980 alt.religion.buddhism:220 talk.religion.buddhism:17746 talk.religion.misc:207937 alt.magick.virtual-adepts:529 alt.necromicon:2149 Terma were hidden by the tantric master Padmasambhava and his spiritual consort Yeshe Tsogyal both in physical places and in the mindstreams of his 25 main disciples. He also issued prophecy concerning the future time for their revelation and who the terton (revealer) would be (always an incarnation of one of the 25). Well-known living tertons include Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok and Orgyen Kusum Lingpa. See Hidden Teachings of Tibet by Tulku Thondup (I think--it's missing from my shelf).