The sixth of the seven authoritative transmissions is the category of pure visions, which refers to teachings received by means of visionary encounters with enlightened beings or the accomplished masters of the past. This is the final of the three types of transmission according to the Nyingma system, though it is a common form of visionary transmission in other Tibetan schools and most of the non-Nyingma revelations found in the Rinchen Terdzö belong to this category. While treasure revelation also often involves visionary encounters, what sets pure vision transmission apart from the Terma tradition is the lack of entrustment or predetermination involved with the revelation processes. While usually only a specific tertön can claim ownership of a specific terma, because the transmission actually occurred in the tertön's previous life, such rules do not apply to pure visions in which the transmission occurs during the course of the visionary experience. Therefore, the binding distinction here is that they are encounters with the pure forms of the beings that transmit to them these teachings- forms that only accomplished practitioners are capable of seeing and interacting with. In the secret biography, Kongtrul only mentions three cycles of teachings in relation to Khyentse Wangpo's pure visions, namely a series of longevity practices focused on the goddess Caṇḍālī, the consort of the Buddha Amitāyus, his additions to the innermost secret guru practice of Jigme Lingpa's Heart Essence of Longchenpa (yang gsang bla ma'i sgrub pa thig le'i rgya can), and his cycle on the guru practice of Chogyur Lingpa in the pure form of Pemai Nyugu (pad+ma'i myu gu) known as the Profound Essence of the Embodiment of Three Kāyas and Families (sku gsum rigs 'dus zab tig). However the compilers of the Khyentse Kabab have included numerous other examples of Khyentse Wangpo's pure vision teachings, such as those connected to his encounters with the pure forms of figures who lived in past like the mahāsiddha Mitrayogi, King Trisong Deutsen, and Guru Rinpoche, as well as those connected to his encounters with buddhas and bodhisattavs, such as Amitābha and Vajrasattva, Mañjuśrī and Avalokiteśvara, and so on.
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ཚ་ 6 53
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འཆི་མེད་ཙཎྜ་ལིའི་བརྒྱུད་འདེབས། 'chi med tsaN+Da li'i brgyud 'debs
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ཚ་ 13 95-96
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མི་ཏྲའི་ཚེ་སྒྲུབ་ཚོགས་མཆོད། mi tra'i tshe sgrub tshogs mchod
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ཚ་ 14 97-98
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ཚེ་འགུགས། tshe 'gugs
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ཚ་ 18 123-132
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སྐུ་གསུམ་བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཆར་འབེབས། sku gsum bla ma'i rnal 'byor ye shes char 'bebs
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ཚ་ 27 169-171
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སྐུ་གསུམ་བླ་མའི་ལས་བྱང་སྙིང་པོའི་མཛེས་རྒྱན། sku gsum bla ma'i las byang snying po'i mdzes rgyan
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ཚ་ 51 481-484
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སྐུ་གསུམ་རིགས་འདུས་ཟབ་ཏིག་ལས། སྐོང་བཤགས་དངོས་གྲུབ་ཐིག་ལེ། sku gsum rigs 'dus zab tig las skong bshags dngos grub thig le
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