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The Kadam school was founded by Atīśa (982-1054). His disciple Dromtön (1004-1064) founded Radreng monastery in North Lhasa in 1056. This became the source of his teachings. The school did not survive independently mostly because the majority of Kadampas, being hermits, did not construct monasteries, but the Kadam school did profoundly influence the other schools. In particular, the Gelugpas call themselves the new Kadampas, and the Dagpo-Kagyupas say that their transmission is the confluence of the mahāmudrā and Kadam teaching traditions. +
Realm of Amitābha and Chenrezig. The practices and wishes associated with them direct the mind at the time of death to be reborn there, liberated from saṃsāra. +
Mahākāla Chadrupa's partner. +
One of two primordial wisdom ḍākinīs, inspirer of Khyungpo Neljor. See Shangpa-Kagyu. +
Name of the six-armed aspect of Mahākāla, who is the Dharma protector (dharmapāla) mainly in the Shangpa-Kagyu and Gelug lineages. "The six-armed protector of primordial wisdom" is a wrathful emanation of Chenrezig, the buddha of compassion, who manifests himself in a dynamic and powerful form in order to subjugate illusions and obstacles. +
Name that King Śuddhodana gave his son, the future Buddha Śākyamuni. +
Kagyu monastery located in Bhutan. Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche became its director at the invitation of the royal family and at the instigation of the Karmapa. Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche remained there several years, developing the monastery and having two retreat centers constructed. Afterward, he left for India, where he founded Sonada monastery. +
(ca. 600-660) One of the Six Ornaments. Logician who elucidated and expanded the work of Dignāga. He is the author of the works on logic called ''Seven Treatises (tshad ma sde bdun)''. +
(1007-1078) Mahāsiddha and great scholar of Vikramaśīla university; contemporary of Atīśa, he was one of Marpa's and Khyungpo Neljor's principal masters. +
Without a doubt the best known of the Indian mahāsiddhas; an arrow maker, he lived in the seventh century and composed three cycles of songs which remain famous: the dohas of the king, of the queen, and of the people. He is the originator of the distant lineage of mahāmudrā. +
Wife of Marpa. Her name means "egoless." +
(1110-1193) First Karmapa; disciple of Gampopa. See Dagpo-Kagyu. +
Name of the lineage introduced to Tibet by Marpa the Translator. See Dagpo-Kagyu. +
(Fifth-sixth centuries) One of the Six Ornaments and the most distinguished Mahāyāna logician. His most important work is without question the ''Compendium of Valid Cognition'' (''Pramāṇasamuccaya; tshad ma kun las btus pa'', or, ''tshad ma mdo''). +
Half brother of Buddha Śākyamuni; son of King Śuddhodana (father of Buddha Śākyamuni) and his second wife, Mahāprajāpatī, who educated the young Buddha Śākyamuni after the death of Mahāmāyā, first wife of the king and mother of Buddha Śākyamuni. +
Name of a school whose philosophical viewpoint and practices date back to Yumo Mikyö Dorje, a great master of Kālacakra who established, in accordance with his teachings, the perspective of great Madhyamaka, or Yogācāra-Madhayamaka-Shentong. This view goes beyond the divergences between dialectical Prāsaṅgika and the Yogācāra experience, and is a synthesis of the two great Mahāyāna philosophical perspectives. Kunpang Thuje Tsöndru (1243-?), a holder of the lineage, established its seat in the Tsang province at Jomonang monastery which gave the school its name. His great disciple, the omniscient Dölpo Sherab Gyaltsen (1292-1361), greatly spread the Madhyamaka Shentong perspective in the provinces of Ü and Tsang. He composed numerous works including ''The Ocean of Definitive Meaning (ri chos nges don rgya mtsho)'' which explains the Madhyamaka Shentong perspective. The lineage continued without interruption; among its members there were Jonang Kunga Drölcho (1495-1566), who received revelations from Niguma, and particularly the omniscient Jetsün Drolwe Gönpo, known by the name of Taranatha (1575—1634), who founded the monastery of Taten Puntsoling. In the seventeenth century, political problems caused the Jonang monasteries to become Gelug, but the teachings of the school continued to be transmitted and practiced while being incorporated into other lineages, and particularly to the Shangpa-Kagyu transmission. +
Literally, "the essence of space." He is one of the eight great bodhisattvas (nye ba'i sras chen brgyad). +
Indian master; one of the Two Supremes. He lived six hundred years and his activity places him mainly in the second and third centuries C.E. He was born to a Brahman family in the region of Vidarbha in southern India. As a youth, he studied and mastered all the traditional sciences, both ordinary and special, the ''Tripiṭaka'', and the four classes of tantra. At Nalanda, he took monastic ordination from the mahāsiddha Saraha and soon became abbot of the university. A physician of great talent, he healed Mucilinda, king of the nāgas, who, in gratitude gave him the texts of the ''Prajñāpāramitāsūtra'' in 100,000 verses. This text had been entrusted to him by Ananda, Buddha Śākyamuni's principal disciple, to be reveded in the future. This is how he was given the name Nāgārjuna. The Tibetan canon counts 180 works attributed to him. He composed numerous texts based on the ''Prajñāpāramitāsūtra'', but his main contribution was the Madhyamaka, with the ''Six Collections of Logic (dbu ma rigs tshogs drug)'', which became his fundamental texts. +
(1846-1912) Mipham Gyatso. One of the best-known masters of the Nyingma school, he was a major artisan in the Rimé movement, along with Kongtrul, Khyentse, and Dechen Chogyur Lingpa. +
Literally, "very precious." Honorific term of address. +
