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Terma (religion): Works, Tibetan Buddhist tradition & Background

Terma (Tibetan: གཏེར་མ, Wylie: gter ma; "hidden treasure") are various forms of hidden teachings that are key to the Vajrayana of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon spiritual traditions. In the Vajrayana Nyingma school tradition, two lineages occur: an oral Kama lineage and a revealed Terma lineage. Terma teachings were originally concealed by eighth-century…

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Terma (religion) topic overview

The analysis highlights Works, Tibetan Buddhist tradition and Background as prominent areas in the source structure around Terma (religion).

Related topics
81
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
86
Extracted relationships
13
Related term clusters
23
Bridge connections
86

What this topic covers Research coverage

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Tibetan Buddhist tradition · 44 topics
Background · 19 topics
Overview · 10 topics
Bön tradition · 7 topics
Works cited · 1 topics

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Terma (religion)

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Overview

Background

Tibetan Buddhist tradition

Bön tradition

Works cited

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How Terma (religion) connects Entity context

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Important terminology

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Important terminology

terma tertön tradition tibetan teachings teaching may hidden revealed treasure vajrayana mind also one texts tibet wylie nyingma buddhism transmission

Terma (religion) relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 13 structured relationships around Terma (religion). Examples in this analysis include a text or ritual implement that is buried in the ground → instance of → Tibetan Buddhist traditionTradition holds that terma may be a physical object and the great translator Longchenpa → instance of → and has also been hidden by teachers. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
a text or ritual implement that is buried in the groundinstance ofTibetan Buddhist traditionTradition holds that terma may be a physical object0.80text
hidden in a rock or crystalinstance ofTibetan Buddhist traditionTradition holds that terma may be a physical object0.80text
secreted in a herbinstance ofTibetan Buddhist traditionTradition holds that terma may be a physical object0.80text
or a treeinstance ofTibetan Buddhist traditionTradition holds that terma may be a physical object0.80text
hidden in waterinstance ofTibetan Buddhist traditionTradition holds that terma may be a physical object0.80text
or hidden in the sky or in spaceinstance ofTibetan Buddhist traditionTradition holds that terma may be a physical object0.80text
the great translator Longchenpainstance ofand has also been hidden by teachers0.80text
Lishu Tagringinstance ofTeachings were hidden by masters0.80text
Drenpa Namkhainstance ofTeachings were hidden by masters0.80text
often inside Buddhist templesinstance ofTeachings were hidden by masters0.80text
as in Samyeinstance ofTeachings were hidden by masters0.80text
Lhodrak.The three TreasuresFor the Bonpoinstance ofTeachings were hidden by masters0.80text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Terma (religion) bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Tradition, Tertön and Hidden. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Terma (religion)
    • Tradition
    • Tertön
    • Hidden
    • Teachings
    • Nyingma
    • One
    • Treasure
    • Mind
    • Tibetan
    • May
    • Teaching
    • Time
  • terma (religion)
    • Tradition
    • Tertön
    • Hidden
    • Teachings
    • Nyingma
    • One
    • Treasure
    • Mind
    • Tibetan
    • May
    • Teaching
    • Time
  • tibetan buddhist tradition
    • Wylie
    • Two
    • One
    • Tibet
    • Hidden
    • Teaching
    • Vajrayana
    • Tradition
    • Bön
    • Treasures
    • Lineages
    • Citation
  • bön tradition
    • Also
    • Century
    • Two
    • Tibet
    • Hidden
    • Bön
    • Lineages
    • Tradition
    • Vajrayana
    • Citation
    • Needed
    • Rediscovered
  • tibetan buddhism
    • Vajrayana
    • Hidden
    • Wylie
    • Termas
    • Teachings
    • Tibet
    • One
    • Tradition
    • Tibetan
    • Treasures
    • Bon
    • Nyingma
  • yeshe tsogyal
    • Tertöns
    • Teachings
    • Bön
    • Vajrayana
    • Century
    • Citation
    • Concealed
    • Needed
    • Time
    • Two
    • Lingpa
    • Also
  • jigdral yeshe dorje (2nd dudjom rinpoche)
    • Tertöns
    • Teachings
    • Bön
    • Vajrayana
    • Century
    • Citation
    • Concealed
    • Needed
    • Time
    • Two
    • Lingpa
    • Also
  • tibetan script
    • Wylie
    • One
    • Vajrayana
    • Tradition
    • Treasures
    • Buddhist
    • Bön
    • Century
    • Termas
    • Tibet
    • Also
    • Treasure

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Terma (religion), one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Terma (religion) with Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Terma (religion) — Tibetan Buddhist tradition · splits 42 ⟂ 45
Terma (religion) — Background · splits 67 ⟂ 20
Terma (religion) — Overview · splits 76 ⟂ 11
Terma (religion) — Bön tradition · splits 79 ⟂ 8

Map overview Semantic statistics

Terma (religion)

Nodes87
Edges86
Triples13
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022989
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Terma (religion) to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works, Tibetan Buddhist tradition & Background, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Terma (religion) · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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