Karma Lingpa
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Karma Lingpa a great tertön
, is embraced as a reincarnation of Chokro Luyi Gyaltsen (cog ro klu'i rgyal mtshan), a great master, and accepted as the revealer of the so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead. Karma Lingpa took body in southeast Tibet as the eldest son of Nyida Sangye (Nyi zla sangs rgyas), the great Tantric practitioner. At an early age, Karma Lingpa engaged in esoteric practices and achieved many siddhi
; when he reached fifteen years of age, he discovered several terma
texts on top of Mount Gampodar amongst which were a collection of teachings entitled The Self-Emergence of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities from Enlightened Awareness (zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol), Bardo Thodol
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Dubgyur (2006) charts the influence of Karma Lingpa's Bardo Thodol- the judgment of the Dead on the Bhutanese Criminal Trial System. Dobgyur states that this text is a legal and historical source of importance on which most of the modern Criminal Procedure of Bhutan is based through the enactment of the Butanese Civil and Criminal Procedure Code in 2001.
Tertön
A tertön is a discoverer of ancient texts or "terma". Many tertöns are considered incarnations of the 25 main disciples of Padmasambhava. A vast system of transmission lineages developed...
, is embraced as a reincarnation of Chokro Luyi Gyaltsen (cog ro klu'i rgyal mtshan), a great master, and accepted as the revealer of the so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead. Karma Lingpa took body in southeast Tibet as the eldest son of Nyida Sangye (Nyi zla sangs rgyas), the great Tantric practitioner. At an early age, Karma Lingpa engaged in esoteric practices and achieved many siddhi
Siddhi
is a Sanskrit noun that can be translated as "perfection", "accomplishment", "attainment", or "success". The term is first attested in the Mahabharata. In the Pancatantra, a siddhi may be any unusual skill or faculty or capability...
; when he reached fifteen years of age, he discovered several terma
Terma (religion)
Terma are key Tibetan Buddhist and Bön teachings, which the tradition holds were originally esoterically hidden by various adepts such as Padmasambhava and his consorts in the 8th century for future discovery at auspicious times by other adepts, known as tertöns. As such, they represent a...
texts on top of Mount Gampodar amongst which were a collection of teachings entitled The Self-Emergence of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities from Enlightened Awareness (zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol), Bardo Thodol
Bardo Thodol
The Liberation Through Hearing During The Intermediate State , sometimes translated as Liberation Through Hearing or Bardo Thodol is a funerary text...
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Dubgyur (2006) charts the influence of Karma Lingpa's Bardo Thodol- the judgment of the Dead on the Bhutanese Criminal Trial System. Dobgyur states that this text is a legal and historical source of importance on which most of the modern Criminal Procedure of Bhutan is based through the enactment of the Butanese Civil and Criminal Procedure Code in 2001.