Namtar (biography)
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This article is about Tibetan spiritual biographies. For the Mesopotamian mythological deity, see Namtar (god).
In Tibetan, Namtar is the word for a spiritual biography or hagiography.
The word Namtar literally means complete liberation since they tell the stories of yogis or Indo-Tibetan saints who attained complete enlightenment. Namtars do not focus on a literal chronology, but rather function as a kind of learning example that hits the high points of the sprititual life of a yogi.
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