Aro Ter Lineage

Nyingmapa Chagdud Gompa San Francisco Practice Group Tibetan Nyingmapa The Aro gTér is a lineage within the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. The pure vision terma on which it is based teaches all Buddhist topics from the point of view of Dzogchen. The Aro gTer terma was received by Western-born Buddhist, Ngakpa Chögyam. History
Ngakpa Chögyam founded the Aro gTér organization in the 1980s.[1] He was born in Hanover, Germany in 1952 and grew up in England. His father was English and his mother German; he is distantly related to the composer Franz Schubert. He studied Buddhism from the early 1970s through 1989, while working as a manual laborer, factory worker, and a truck driver in Britain to subsidize his education.[2]

According to a terma which Ngakpa Chögyam received in visions, the Aro tradition has antecedents in a 'Mother Essence Lineage' of female tertöns originating with Yeshe Tsogyal,[3] and forward to Kyungchen Aro Lingma (1886-1923).[4][1] According to the Aro gTér, Kyunchen Aro Lingma first discovered the terma.[4][1] This terton says Aro Lingma transmitted the lineage to her only son, named Aro Yeshe (1915-1951).