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In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
: Academia: The " Twenty or Eighteen " Texts of the Mind Seriesbde 'byam (嘟栢綉嘟亨紜嘟犩綎嗑编綐) (or 鈥渢he infinity of bliss鈥�) refers to one of the 鈥�Eighteen Texts of the Mind Series鈥� (Tibetan: sems sde bco rgyad)鈥� the earliest known corpus of Dzogchen literature (also: 鈥済reat perfection鈥� or Atiyoga) in Nyingma Buddhism.鈥擳he many lists of the Eighteen Texts that emerged between the 9th and the 14th century differ in their contents, there is no canonical collection of texts within the rNying ma tradition that includes all of the eighteen texts. One list includes [e.g., 鈥淭he Infinity of Bliss鈥�; Tibetan: bde 'byam]. It is mentioned in the 13th century 鈥淢ask of Bai ro tsa na鈥� [bairo'i 'dra 'bag chen mo], which is included as the last volume (in fact as the last text) in the anomalous collection of bairo'i rgyud 'bum.
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha鈥檚 words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (惫补箩谤补测腻苍补) are collected indepently.
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Full-text: rdzogs chen bde 'byams, bde 'byams, bde bar rab 'byams, bde bar 'byams, Eighteen major scriptures.
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