Talk:Terma (religion)

message: I think the plural is terma, not termas. --Walter Fordham 03:11, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Isn't this a "referendums/referenda" point? I think that if you are discoursing in english, they are termas. If you are discoursing in Tibetan, then I don't know how you construct the plural, but I'm willing to bet that it involves some combination of particles.
BTW, my edit also included substituting "teaching" for "text" most of the way through, since what is always hidden is the teaching, and the text is really the same as any other object - just a trigger.
--MrDemeanour 21:03, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Terma

message: All these editors have opinions, founded in what? Definitely not in sadhana. When I glance over this article, the first time in ages today, all I see are my qualitative improvements, citations. The term, as the process, is 'elementally encoded'. Why haven't these editors, edited out the errors in style and punctuation and provided citations? Why, because they are lazy, lazy, lazy.
B9 hummingbird hovering (talk • contribs) 07:44, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinions, opinions, opinions 

message: This concept is utilized extensively in Theosophy, in particular with respect to the Book of Dzyan. The idea of secret stores of text and knowledge hidden away from profane eyes in deep caves and underground establishments in the heart of Tibet, until the time is appropriate for revelation to humanity, is alluded to repeatedly by Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine. Perhaps some link should be established between the articles, or at least a mention.
Antitab (talk) 08:30, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conceptual relationship to Theosophy 

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*Oppose it's a plural form redirect to a dab page now. 76.66.195.196 (talk) 04:54, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
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message: I've added a couple more citations to Tulku Thondup's "Hidden Teachings of Tibet", and removed some citation-needed tags. 
Thondup's book is entirely about the terma tradition, and is a pretty comprehensive explanation. Along with the citations and quotes from Fremantle, this article is well-supported by sources. It doesn't make sense to cite each of a succession of claims to the same work; if an entire section is supported by the same source, then a citation at the end of the section is sufficient.
For some people, I guess terma is woo, so any source explaining terma must also be woo. If these sources can't be accepted as authoritative, then WP wouldn't be able to say anything about the terma tradition (nor many other mystical traditions). That would be unfortunate.
MrDemeanour (talk) 14:04, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: You put citations inside a blockquote. The only citation a blockquote should have is the citation for the quotation at the end. I've removed them. Skyerise (talk) 16:34, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations