What's the term for female Nyingma practitioner?
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Re: What's the term for female Nyingma practitioner?
Lay female practitioners would be ngakmas.
Re: What's the term for female Nyingma practitioner?
Well, if a male Nyingma practitioner is a Nyingmapa, I guess a female one is a Nyingmama!
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Re: What's the term for female Nyingma practitioner?
Does that make the head of the lineage a Nyingpapa?
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For those who do non-virtuous actions,
that becomes suffering indeed.
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I thought it was Nyingmamama
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Re: What's the term for female Nyingma practitioner?
I thought a ngakma would be something more specific, with hair empowerment, etc.
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Re: What's the term for female Nyingma practitioner?
Usage of the term is complicated and varies among communities, from what I understand. It's been discussed here before, but one way of using the term is that anyone with inner tantra empowerment is a ngakpa/ngakma.mechashivaz wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 7:15 pmI thought a ngakma would be something more specific, with hair empowerment, etc.
Re: What's the term for female Nyingma practitioner?
Any LAY practitioner with a...Thomas Amundsen wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 8:06 pmUsage of the term is complicated and varies among communities, from what I understand. It's been discussed here before, but one way of using the term is that anyone with inner tantra empowerment is a ngakpa/ngakma.mechashivaz wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 7:15 pmI thought a ngakma would be something more specific, with hair empowerment, etc.
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Re: What's the term for female Nyingma practitioner?
We usually call them “Buddhists”.
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