Sarma (Buddhism)

Sarma (Tibetan: གསར་ མ, Wylie: gsar ma) - The Tibetan name for the "New Transmission" of the teachings of Buddhism in Tibet and its neighboring regions, related to the flourishing and renewal of Tibetan Buddhism, which began in the eleventh century. This name in particular means the three contemporary mainstream Tibetan traditions of sakya, kagyu and gelug, and will reduce the tradition of dzionang based on sakya and the transmission of Kalachakra tantras. In the 11th century many great scholars and translators appeared in Tibet, who transferred the teachings and practices of Buddhism from the end of the Buddhist period in India to Tibet. The new tantra teachings have been particularly successful thanks to such eminent teachers as the Hindu master Atisza, who gave birth to the kadam school and the subsequent revision of this school in Gelug, the Drokmi Translator, whose teachings consolidated the statutes of the Sakya school and Marpa Translation, whose teachings have given rise to kagyu school. At the same time, hidden treasures (the termas) were discovered, with the lost teachings of Padmasambhava, and the traditions of these earlier sarma teachings, unlike them, are commonly referred to as ningma, or "ancient tradition."

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