Otter Verlag

Otter Verlag

Thanks to the personal contact with His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang, the lineage holder of the Drikung Kagyu lineage and other important teachers of Tibetan Buddhism, we can publish old, authentic texts in our publishing house and thus support the preservation of valuable Tibetan Buddhist writings. The texts encompass teachings from all major lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. In this way, we enable those in the West who are interested to access authentic material and study the genuine Tibetan Buddhist teachings and integrate the wisdom contained therein into their lives.

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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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Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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