What is the Ngakpa Tradition?
• The NT is the cultural and •
non-monastic spiritual
tradition of the Tibetan
people.
• Lay practitioners of
Tibetan Buddhism and
especially practice Tantric
Buddhism.
• Lay women practitioners
are called Ngakmo or
Ngakma.

Tibetan lay people’s Tantric
lineage is called the lineage of
the Ngakpa Tradition.

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In Sanskrit known as Yogin
and yogini, or Mantri and
mantrini.

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In the west it’s known as white
Sangha tradition, or Tibetan
yogic tradition, also
weathermen.