The Tibetan Treasure-Revelation Tradition of Padmasambhava
- Date of account
- Tradition developed from the 11th century onward; relevant early examples before 1800
- Location
- Tibet and Himalayan regions
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
In the Tibetan terma tradition, religious teachings are said to have been concealed by Padmasambhava and later discovered by tertöns through visions, symbolic guidance, or extraordinary perception. The tradition offers a major comparison for culturally authorized revelation, memory, automatic inscription, lineage authentication, and the relation between visionary experience and textual production. Individual cycles have specific discoverers, manuscripts, and institutional histories, but the supernatural concealment claim is theological rather than independently demonstrated. Dating and textual stratification vary widely across cycles.
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