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Namkhai Nyingpo
Tibetan Buddhist practitioner
Nub་Ben Namkhai Nyingpo (gNubs ban Nam mkha’i snying po, Tibetan: གནུབས་བན་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།, 8th/9th century) is counted amongst the principal "twenty-five disciples" (Wylie: rje 'bang nyer lnga) of Padmasambhava.
Nub Ben Namkha'i Nyingpo was a realized practitioner of Śāntarakṣita’s tradition of Sutrayana "gradualist" Mahayana Buddhism as well as simultaneously being one of the most accomplished Tibetan practitioners of the East Mountain Teaching of Chan Buddhism, which transmits the "subitist" tradition of Mahayana Buddhism.
In addition, Nub Ben Namkhai Nyingpo was also a realized master of Dzogchen as well as a Master of the Tantric path (Tantrayana), specifically, the three Outer Tantra yana and the Inner Tantra yana according to the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.[1]
Nomenclature, orthography and etymology
Namkhai Nyingpo's name may be rendered in English from the Tibetan as "essence of space", "matrix of