Longchen Nyingthig

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Longchen Nyingthig (Tibetan: ཀློང་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་; Wylie: klong chen snying thig) is a systematic explanation of Dzogchen within the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. It is generally classified as a Vajrayana or esoteric teaching, and has an extensive meditational and ritual practise associated with it. The teaching was original discovered as a terma, a revealed teaching given to the 18th century Nyingma teacher Kunkhyen Jigme Lingpa. The teaching is allegedly descended from the Dharmakaya Buddha Kuntu Zangpo, passed to the Samboghakaya Buddha Vajrasattva, and then on down the line until it reached Guru Padmasambhava, who arrived in the mid-8th century to Tibet and converted much of the populace to Buddhism.