Tertön (Tibetan: གཏེར་སྟོན་, Wylie: gter ston) [1] is a term within Tibetan Buddhism meaning 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 (Guru Rinpoche), who foresaw a dark time in Tibet.

Starting with the first tertön, Sangyé Lama (1000–1080) and Drapa Ngönshé (1012–90), discoverer of the Four Medical Tantras, there have been hundreds of masters who specialized in the discovery of terma, continuing up until the present day with Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche and Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

Tertön (T. gter ton གཏེར་སྟོན་) is a Tibetan Buddhist term for a "treasure revealer" or "treasure-finder." A terton is a highly-realized master that reveals hidden teachings and presents them at a spiritually efficacious time.

Tertön- s were mostly individual mystics seeking religious treasures and hidden lands who were following the cryptic prophecies and guides that came to them, sometimes through their own prognostic dreams. Most claimed a link to Padmasambhava claimed …

Five Sovereign Terma Revealers or Five Tertön Kings (Tib. གཏེར་སྟོན་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལྔ་, tertön gyalpo nga, Wyl. gter ston rgyal po lnga) are the most important tertöns. They were all emanations of King Trisong Detsen. Sometimes the list also includes the great tertön Rigdzin Gödem (1337-1408).

Jan 12, 2024 · Tertons reveal these sacred texts or treasures by finding the physical place in which they are entombed or through dreams, meditative visions, and spontaneous realization. Lhalung Pelgyi Dorji, who was one of the 25 disciples of Guru Padmasambhava (also known as Guru Rinpoche).

A tertön ( Tibetan: གཏེར་སྟོན ་, Wylie: gter ston) 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.

Termas are Buddhist teachings intended for troubled times as a source of renewed wisdom and blessings. Although there are antecedents in Indian Buddhism–most famously Nagarjuna’s discovery of the Prajnaparamita literature–terma is primarily a Tibetan phenomena.

Jul 28, 2019 · The Hundred Tertons (གཏེར་སྟོན་བརྒྱ་རྩའི་རྣམ་ཐར།) is Jamgon Kongtrul’s history of the visionary men and women who have, again and again, renewed the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition of Padmasambhava. Kongtrul’s book includes biographies of Padmasambhava, his twenty-five disciples, Longchenpa, Jikme Lingpa, Chokgyur Lingpa, and many others.

The term "terton" refers to enlightened Buddhist masters that reveal hidden teachings and present them at a spiritually efficacious time.