Terton

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tertön

Wylie: gter ston

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In Tibetan Buddhism, a tertön is someone who discovers a terma, or hidden text.

Guru Padmasambhava predicted that in the future hundreds of tertons will spread his teachings. Throughout the centuries many more people were known as tertons.

Five of them were widely recognized as very important ones and called the five terton kings: