Five kingly treasure revealers
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Five kingly treasure revealers (T. gter ston rgyal po lnga གཏེར་སྟོན་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལྔ་). Also known as the "Five Sovereign Terma Revealers", "Five Tertön Kings", etc. A group of five renowned "treasure revealers" (tertöns) within the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. They are all considered to be emanations of the Tibetan king Trisong Detsen.
- Nyang Ral Nyima Özer (1124-1192)
- Guru Chökyi Wangchuk (1212-1270), the speech incarnation of Trisong Detsen
- Dorje Lingpa (1346-1405)
- Pema Lingpa (1445/50-1521)
- Pema Ösel Do-ngak Lingpa (Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo) (1820-1892)
Sometimes the list also includes the tertön Rigdzin Gödem (1337-1408).
Sources
Five sovereign terma revealers, Rigpa Shedra Wiki- Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. gter ston rgyal po lnga