'bri gung skyob pa 'jig rten mgon po
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He was born to an illustrious clan called the Kyura (skyu ra) at a town in Kham called Tsungu (tsu ngu), in 1123. He studied with teachers from many traditions and completed many years of retreat, after which he took monastic vows in 1177...
"...Jikten Gonpo and his Drigung lineage are best known for the set of teachings known as The Five Profound Paths of Mahāmudrā (phyag chen lnga ldan). Some of his sayings were collected by Sherab Jungne into what is known as the Single Intention (dgongs gcig), teachings of a profoundly philosophical character further developed in commentarial works written in the following generation. Some of Jikten Gonpo's teachings were collected by yet another disciple into what is known as the Heart of the Great Vehicle's Teachings (theg chen bstan pa'i snying po)..."
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It is about the fundamental intention that underlies all the Buddha’s teachings and unites all the categories of Buddhist concepts within one central principle – the “actual reality of the nature or state of all phenomena.” One of the main messages is the universal validity and unchangeable nature of virtue and non-virtue, which means that no one can bypass the foundational practices and the observance of disciplined conduct..
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Early in the history of the Kagyü school, the teachings of Jikten Sumgön were condensed into 150 core formulations called vajra statements. These pithy, revelatory statements comprise the Single Intention (Dgongs gcig), which presents the thought of the Buddha and the nature of the ineffable (brjod du med pa) in concise and direct expression. The Single Intention weaves the thread of ineffable mahāmudrā through the entire fabric of Buddhism. It presents mahāmudrā as pervading disciplined conduct, meditative concentration, and discriminative knowledge; ground, path, and result; view, practice, and conduct; and the “three vows” of prātimokṣa, of the bodhisattvas, and of mantra. Jikten Sumgön teaches how the fundamental values and insights revealed by the Buddha are woven into reality and therefore accessible to all.
Philosophical positions of this person
"The [buddha] element in sentient beings makes enlightenment attainable. This enlightenment is attained gradually and not instantaneously..." Mathes, K., A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, p. 42.
Other names
- འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- རིན་ཆེན་དཔལ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་མགོན་ · other names (Tibetan)
- འབྲི་གུང་གདན་རབས་༠༡་ · other names (Tibetan)
- 'jig rten mgon po · other names (Wylie)
- rin chen dpal · other names (Wylie)
- 'jig rten gsum mgon · other names (Wylie)
- 'bri gung gdan rabs 01 · other names (Wylie)
Affiliations & relations
- Drikung Kagyu · religious affiliation
- phag mo gru pa rdo rje rgyal po · teacher
- 'bri gung spyan snga shes rab 'byung gnas · student
- Rdo rje shes rab · student