Pakmodrupa Dorje Gyalpo

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Pakmodrupa Dorje Gyalpo

ཕག་མོ་གྲུ་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་པོ་

1110 – 1170

Pakmodrupa was a disciple of Gampopa and is one of the earliest patriarchs of the Kagyu tradition. His monastery, Densatil, which he founded in 1158, was the training ground for most of the founders of the Kagyu sub-traditions, such as Taklungtangpa and Jikten Gonpo, who went on to establish the Taklung and Drigung Kagyu, respectively. He integrated teachings that he received from Kadam, Sakya and, in vision, Zhije instructors into those he received from Gampopa. A widely learned but humble monk, he gave a clear priority to meditation over textual scholarship and philosophical reflection. His collected works have only recently been published in full.

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Also known as

ཕག་མོ་གྲུ་པ་phag mo gru pa

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Classical Tibetan Authors

Student of

Sachen Kunga NyingpoChapa Chökyi SengeGampopa

Teacher of

Jikten GönpoDrogon RechenTropu Lotsāwa Jampai PalGling ras pa pad+ma rdo rjeStag lung thang pa bkra shis dpalGyer sgom tshul khrims seng+ge

4 Authored & Translated Works

Library items authored or translated by Pakmodrupa Dorje Gyalpo.

Śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt श्रावक  Tib ཉན་ཐོས།  Ch 聲聞  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib བཀའ་གདམས་  

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Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib ས་སྐྱ་  

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