The lineage of the transmission of Buddhist texts that had been planted for safekeeping either in a physical location, such as inside a pillar of a temple or in the minds of disciples and later recovered by tertons (revealers of treasure texts) and passed on to successive generations of disciples.
Tibetan: གཏེར་མ་ཉེ་བརྒྱུད། gter-ma nye-brgyud
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