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Jatson Nyingpo - Updated

Jatson Nyingpo, 1585-1656, ('ja' tshon nying po, las 'phro gling pa): a famous 'treasure revealer' of the Nyingma Terma Tradition. He studied both Nyingma and Sarma, and was a prolific writer with over three hundred texts to his name.


Jatson Nyingpo is typically depicted as monk and wearing a red pandita hat. The right hand holds a vajra sceptre upraised. The left holds outstretched to the side a three sided peg (kila); seated in a circle of flames. The standardized artistic depictions are based on guruyoga textual descriptions.