00:00:29 1 Prominent tertöns
00:02:00 1.1 The Five Tertön Kings
00:02:52 1.2 The Eight Great Lingpas
00:03:52 2 Tertön practices
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- improves your own spoken accent
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- reduce eye strain
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- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Tertön (Tibetan: གཏེར་སྟོན་, Wylie: gter ston) is a term within Tibetan Buddhism. It means a person who is a discoverer of ancient hidden texts or terma. Many tertöns are considered to be incarnations of the twenty five main disciples of Padmasambhava. A vast system of transmission lineages developed. Nyingma scriptures were updated by terma discoveries, and terma teachings have guided many Buddhist and Bon practitioners.