Götsangpa Gönpo Dorje

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Götsangpa Gönpo Dorje

རྒོད་ཚང་པ་མགོན་པོ་རྡོ་རྗེ་

1189 – 1258

Gotsangpa is considered the founder of a special branch of the Drukpa Kagyu school known as the Upper Drukpa. He traveled widely in western Tibet and present-day Himachal Pradesh, India, and is particularly well known today in Ladakh and Lahaul.

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རྒྱལ་བ་རྒོད་ཚང་པ་དོན་གྲུབ་སེངྒེ་rgyal ba rgod tshang padon grub seng+ge

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Student of

Drukchen1st

Teacher of

Orgyenpa Rinchen Pal

3 Authored & Translated Works

Library items authored or translated by Götsangpa Gönpo Dorje.

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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