name of Minling Terdag Lingpa [གཏེར་བདག་གླིང་པ་](1646–1714). A celebrated terto¨n and founder of the Mindroling monastery in central Tibet. He collected the tantras of the long oral lineage of the Nyingma school and all the earlier terma teachings. He was thus instrumental in the preservation of the Nyingma tradition. [TPQ, 2010]