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Mind Teachings Of Tibet
The mind teachings of Tibet (Wylie transliteration, Wylie: ''sems khrid'') are a body of sacredly held instructions on the nature of mind and the practice of meditation on, or in accordance with, that nature. Although maintained and cultivated, to various degrees, within each of the major Tibetan Buddhist traditions, they are primarily associated with the mahamudra traditions of the Kagyu and the dzogchen traditions of the Nyingma. The mind teachings of Tibet are generally believed to have originated with Shakyamuni Buddha, although the recorded lineages only trace back to adepts from various regions of the Pala Empire within the Medieval India era between the 7th and 11th century (CE.) After the great Tibetan diaspora in 1959, the mind teachings were among the first Tibetan Dharma teachings identified for preservation and propagation, an effort which assumed an increased sense of urgency under the direction of the 14th Dalai Lama as the full scope of the destruction to Tibet's r ...
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