Chekawa

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Chekawa

འཆད་ཁ་བ་

1101 – 1175

Chekhawa Yeshe Dorje was a Kadampa teacher and an expert in the Zhungpa tradition, and the principal disciple of Sharawa. He founded Chekha Monastery in Meldro in 1141.

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འཆད་ཁ་བ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆད་ཀ་བ་འཆད་ཀ་བ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་'chad kha ba ye shes rdo rje'chad ka ba'chad ka ba ye shes rdo rje

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Student of

RechungpaSha ra ba yon tan grags

Teacher of

Sé Chilbu Chökyi Gyaltsen

20 Authored & Translated Works

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2 Works About Chekawa

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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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