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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. +
A great Kadam master of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. +
Literally, "translation of the commentaries." The ''Tengyur'' (over 200 volumes) consolidates the commentaries on the ''Kangyur'' written by Indian masters. Together the ''Kangyur'' and ''Tengyur'' constitute the canon of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. +
(1820-1892) Emanation of the omniscient Jigme Lingpa (1730-1793), one of the most eminent figures of the Nyingma tradition. He was a great Nyingmapa and Sakyapa master, inspirer and director of the Rimé movement. Afterward, he had different tulkus recognized in several schools, in particular:<br>Dilgo Khyentse Rabsel Dawa (1910-1991) who taught and founded centers in the West connected to the Nyingma school. He was friend, master, and disciple of Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche. Beri or Pelpung Khyentse Karma Khyentse Öser (1896-1945) whose tulku is Bero Khyentse Rinpoche (born in 1947), disciple of the sixteenth Karmapa. He has taught in the West and now resides in Bodhgaya. +
These are the six principal Indian Buddhist masters: Nāgārjuna (klu sgrub) and Asaṅga (thogs med), originators, respectively, of the lineages of the Profound View (zab mo lta rgyud) and Widespread Activities (rgya chen spyod rgyud); they are called the Two Supremes (mchog gnyis). The four others are: Āryadeva ('phags pa lha), Vasubandhu (dbyig gnyen), Dignāga (phyogs glang) and Dharmakīrti (chos grags). In some cases, the Two Supremes are not counted among the Six Ornaments, so two other masters having particular importance in the vinaya transmission are added: Śākyaprabha (shakya 'od) and Guṅaprabha (yon tan 'od). +
(ca. 685-763) One of the principal masters of the Madhyamaka-Prāsaṇgika school, following Buddhapālita (470-540) and Candrakīrti (ca. 600-650). Two of his works, ''Introduction to the Life of a Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra, spyod 'jug)'' and ''The Compendium of Instructions (Śikṣāsamuccaya, bslab pa kun btus pa)'', are among the Mahāyāna's most famous. +
An unbelieving and defiant monk-servant of Buddha Śākyamuni. +
Name of the charnel ground where Khyungpo Neljor met Niguma. +
"The old school." Originating from the first spread of Dharma in Tibet, it developed after Padmasambhava starting in the eighth century. +
The lineage of Situpas began with Situ Drogön Rechen (1088-1158) who received the Kamtshang-Kagyu lineage transmission from the first Karmapa Tusum Khyenpa. He was the master of Gydse Pomdrapa, who was, in turn, master of the second Karmapa Karma Pakshi. The lineage of Situpas passed from Drogön Rechen to two yogis, first to Neljor Yeshe Wangpo, and then to Rigowa Ratnabhadra. Next, it passed to Chöki Gyaltsen (1377-1448), a disciple of the fifth Karmapa Deshin Shekpa, and the first to hold the honorific title of Situ Tulku which he received from the emperor of China. The lineage continued without interruption, playing an essentid role between several Karmapas. The eighth Taī Situpa Chöli Jungne, also Chöki Nyingje or Tenpe Nyingje, was known in particular as Situ Penchen, the great scholar. He founded Pelpung monastery in 1727; this wodd become the largest Kagyu monastery in Tibet. The twelfth Tai Situpa, (fifteenth in the lineage since Drogön Rechen) Pema Nyingje Wangpo, was recognized by His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa. He was born in 1954 and established his headquarters at Sherab Ling in India; he gives frequent teachings in the West. He has recognized the seventeenth reincarnation of the Karmapa, Ugyen Thrinley Dorje, whom he enthroned at Tsurphu monastery in September 1992. The Tai Situpas are emanations of Maitreya, the buddha of love, who is the next Buddha to come. +
A master of the Shangpa lineage. See Shangpa-Kagyu. +
