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Nam Cho

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Nam Cho (Wylie: gnam chos, THL transcription: namchö) translates as the "sky/space dharma", a terma cycle especially popular among the Tibetan Buddhist Nyingma. Palyul Lineage as revealed by Terton Namcho Migyur Dorje and transmitted to Rigdzin Kunzang Sherab and compiled by Kagyu master Karma Chagme Raga Asya.


The Nam Cho comprises an entire cycle of practices ranging from preliminary practice (Ngöndro) to the "pointing out instructions" of Dzogchen. While Migyur Dorje's space-treasures are said to have originated from his visionary encounters with deities, they also include instructions based on his own insights.


By and large they cover diverse subjects such as:



  • v) rites for propitiating;

protector deities (chos skyong / zhing skyong / gter srung); demons (btsan / gnod sbyin / bdud); high heaven spirits (lha); mountain gods (spom ri / thang lha); nāgas (klu); and earth spirits (sa bdag);


peaceful (zhi ba) and wrathful (khro bo) deities

grouped under well-known Vajrayāna cycles (chos skor), such as the Bde mchog; Gu ru drag po; Ma ning; Sgrol ma; Phag mo; and last, but not least,

In Power, Politics and the Reinvention of Tradition: Tibet in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century. Proceedings of the 10th International Association for Tibetan Studies (2003) ed. B. Cuevas et al. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 121-151].

Source

Wikipedia:Nam Cho