Who is a Ngagpa?
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A ngagpa is a heavy-duty kind of non-monastic practitioner of the path of mantra in Tibetan Buddhism. This tradition is also entering modern, "western", societies. What does this entail?
Approximate script at my blog.
The following terms are used and can be searched for:
- ngagpa
- mantra
- tantra
- vajrayana
- shiné
- ngöndro
- mahamudra
- dzogchen
- Guru Rinpoche
- dakinis
- yidam
- Nyingma
- Throma Nagmo
- rigdzin / vidyadhara
- bodhicitta
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