Puchungwa Zhönu Gyaltsen

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Puchungwa Zhönu Gyaltsen

ཕུ་ཆུང་བ་གཞོན་ནུ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

1031 – 1106

Puchungwa Zhonnu Gyeltsen was a disciple of Atiśa and one of three chief disciples of Dromton. He founded Puchung Monastery, one of the first Kadampa monasteries in Penyul.

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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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