Headword |
གཏེར་གཞུང་། gter gzhung |
Translation |
“primary/basic [component of a revealed] textual treasure” |
Description |
The term gter gzhung has been described as “gter ma root text,” “the basic text,” “the treasure root text,” and so on. It means something like “primary/basic/principal [component of a revealed] textual treasure.” Usually a cycle of gTer-ma (“Treasure”) teachings would have the actual core component of the revealed textual treasures, which would be surrounded/suplemented by all kinds of “secondary” and “tertiary,” so to speak, “satellite” texts belong to various genres/subgenres, topics, sizes, styles, functions/purpose, such as “etiology” (gter byung lo rgyus), practice manuals (sgrub chog), initiation manual (dbang chog), and so on. |
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