Nyingma (literally 'old school') is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It is also often referred to as Ngangyur (IPA: , Tibetan: སྔ་འགྱུར་རྙིང་མ།, Wylie: snga 'gyur rnying ma), "order of the ancient translations". The Nyingma school is founded on the first lineages and translations of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into Tibetan in the ...