Table of Contents
126 relations: Atiśa, Avalokiteśvara, Bardo, Bhutan, Blue Annals, Buddha-nature, Buddhism in Bhutan, Buddhist tantric literature, Buton Rinchen Drub, Cakrasaṃvara Tantra, Cenobitic monasticism, Chöd, Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism, Dagpo Kagyu, Daklha Gampo Monastery, Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama, Deity yoga, Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama, Dharmakāya, Doha (poetry), Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, Dream yoga, Drigung Monastery, Drikung Kagyu, Drukpa Kagyu, Dzogchen, E. Gene Smith, Gampopa, Gelug, Gompa, Guhyasamāja Tantra, Gyalwang Drukpa, Hevajra, Householder (Buddhism), Indrabhuti, Jamgon Kongtrul, Je Tsongkhapa, Jonang, Kadam (Tibetan Buddhism), Kalachakra, Kalu Rinpoche, Karma Chagme, Karma Kagyu, Karma Pakshi, 2nd Karmapa Lama, Karmamudrā, Karmapa, Karmapa controversy, Kathok Monastery, Kham, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, ... Expand index (76 more) »
- Buddhism in Bhutan
- Religion in Tibet
- Schools of Tibetan Buddhism
Atiśa
Atīśa (c. 982–1054) was a Buddhist religious leader and master from Bengal.
See Kagyu and Atiśa
Avalokiteśvara
In Buddhism, Avalokiteśvara (meaning "God looking down (upon the world)", IPA), also known as Lokeśvara ("Lord of the World") and Chenrezig (in Tibetan), is a tenth-level bodhisattva associated with great compassion (mahakaruṇā).
Bardo
In some schools of Buddhism, bardo (བར་དོ་ Wylie: bar do) or antarābhava (Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese: 中有, romanized in Chinese as zhōng yǒu and in Japanese as chū'u) is an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth.
See Kagyu and Bardo
Bhutan
Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia situated in the Eastern Himalayas between China in the north and India in the south.
See Kagyu and Bhutan
Blue Annals
The Blue Annals, completed in 1476, written by Gö Lotsawa Zhönnu-pel (1392–1481), is a Tibetan historical survey with a marked ecumenical (Rimé movement) view, focusing on the dissemination of various sectarian spiritual traditions throughout Tibet.
Buddha-nature
In Buddhist philosophy, Buddha-nature (Chinese: (佛性, Japanese:, Sanskrit) is the innate potential for all sentient beings to become a Buddha or the fact that all beings already have a pure buddha-essence within.Heng-Ching Shih, "Buddha-nature" is the common English translation for several related Mahayana Buddhist terms, most notably tathāgatagarbha and buddhadhātu, but also sugatagarbha, and buddhagarbha.
Buddhism in Bhutan
Buddhism is the state religion of Bhutan.
See Kagyu and Buddhism in Bhutan
Buddhist tantric literature
Buddhist tantric literature refers to the vast and varied literature of the Vajrayāna (or Mantrayāna) Buddhist traditions.
See Kagyu and Buddhist tantric literature
Buton Rinchen Drub
Butön Rinchen Drup, (1290–1364), 11th Abbot of Shalu Monastery, was a 14th-century Sakya master and Tibetan Buddhist leader.
See Kagyu and Buton Rinchen Drub
Cakrasaṃvara Tantra
The Cakrasaṃvara Tantra (khorlo demchok, The "Binding of the Wheels" Tantra) is an influential Buddhist Tantra.
See Kagyu and Cakrasaṃvara Tantra
Cenobitic monasticism
Cenobitic (or coenobitic) monasticism is a monastic tradition that stresses community life.
See Kagyu and Cenobitic monasticism
Chöd
Chöd (lit. 'to sever') is a spiritual practice found primarily in the Yundrung Bön tradition as well as in the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism (where it is classed as Anuttarayoga Tantra in Kagyu and Anuyoga in Nyingma).
See Kagyu and Chöd
Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism
Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism refers to the categorization of Buddhist tantric scriptures in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Classes of Tantra in Tibetan Buddhism
Dagpo Kagyu
Dagpo Kagyu encompasses the branches of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism that trace their lineage back through Gampopa (1079-1153), who was also known as Dagpo Lhaje "the Physician from Dagpo" and Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche "Incomparable Precious One from Dagpo". Kagyu and Dagpo Kagyu are Buddhism in Bhutan.
Daklha Gampo Monastery
Daklha Gampo Monastery (Dwags lha sgam po), also romanized as Daglha Gampo, is a Kagyu Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded in 1121 CE by Je Gampopa (1079-1153), the disciple of the famous and much-loved bodhisattva, Jetsun Milarepa (c. 1052—c. 1135) It is located in Gyatsa County in the old district of Dakpo in southern Tibet on land sanctified as a geomantic power-place ('head of the ogress') by the first Tibetan emperor, Songtsen Gampo (605 or 617? - 649), and made a repository of terma by Padmasambhava.
See Kagyu and Daklha Gampo Monastery
Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama
Düsum Khyenpa (1110–1193) was the 1st Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama
Deity yoga
The fundamental practice of Vajrayana and Tibetan tantra is deity yoga (devatayoga), meditation on a chosen deity or "cherished divinity" (Skt. Iṣṭa-devatā, Tib. yidam), which involves the recitation of mantras, prayers and visualization of the deity, the associated mandala of the deity's Buddha field, along with consorts and attendant Buddhas and bodhisattvas.
Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama
Deshin Shekpa (1384–1415), also Deshin Shegpa, Dezhin Shekpa and Dezhin Shegpa, was the fifth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu, a subschool of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama
Dharmakāya
The dharmakāya (धर्म काय, "truth body" or "reality body", p) is one of the three bodies (trikāya) of a buddha in Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Doha (poetry)
Doha is a form of self-contained rhyming couplet in poetry composed in Mātrika metre.
Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
Dölpopa Shérap Gyeltsen (1292–1361), known simply as Dölpopa, was a Tibetan Buddhist master.
See Kagyu and Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
Dream yoga
Dream yoga or milam (स्वप्नदर्शनयोग, svapnadarśanayoga)—the Yoga of the Dream State—is a suite of advanced tantric sadhana of the entwined Mantrayana lineages of Dzogchen (Nyingmapa, Ngagpa, Mahasiddha, Kagyu and Bönpo).
Drigung Monastery
Drigung Thil Monastery is a monastery in Maizhokunggar County, Lhasa, Tibet founded in 1179.
See Kagyu and Drigung Monastery
Drikung Kagyu
Drikung Kagyü or Drigung Kagyü (Wylie: 'bri-gung bka'-brgyud) is one of the eight "minor" lineages of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Kagyu and Drikung Kagyu are schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Drukpa Kagyu
The Drukpa or Drukpa Kagyu lineage, sometimes called Dugpa in older sources, is a branch of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Kagyu and Drukpa Kagyu are Buddhism in Bhutan.
Dzogchen
Dzogchen ("Great Perfection" or "Great Completion"), also known as atiyoga (utmost yoga), is a tradition of teachings in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Bon aimed at discovering and continuing in the ultimate ground of existence.
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Gampopa
Gampopa Sönam Rinchen (1079–1153) was the main student of Milarepa, and a Tibetan Buddhist master who codified his own master's ascetic teachings, which form the foundation of the Kagyu educational tradition.
Gelug
Bodhgaya (India). The Gelug (also Geluk; 'virtuous')Kay, David N. (2007). Kagyu and Gelug are schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Gelug
Gompa
A Gompa or Gönpa or Gumba ("remote place", Sanskrit araṇya), also known as ling ("island"), is a sacred Buddhist spiritual compound where teachings may be given and lineage sādhanās may be stored.
See Kagyu and Gompa
Guhyasamāja Tantra
The Guhyasamāja Tantra (Tantra of the Secret Society/Community), Tōhoku Catalogue No.
See Kagyu and Guhyasamāja Tantra
Gyalwang Drukpa
The Gyalwang Drukpa is the honorific title of the head of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage, one of the independent Sarma (new) schools of Vajrayana Buddhism.
Hevajra
Hevajra (Tibetan: ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ kye'i rdo rje / kye rdo rje; Chinese: 喜金剛 Xǐ jīngāng / 呼金剛 Hū jīngāng) is one of the main yidams (enlightened beings) in Tantric, or Vajrayana Buddhism.
Householder (Buddhism)
In English translations of Buddhist texts, householder denotes a variety of terms.
See Kagyu and Householder (Buddhism)
Indrabhuti
Indrabhuti (alternatively King Ja) is a name attributed to a number of individuals that have become conflated in Vajrayana Buddhism.
Jamgon Kongtrul
Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé (1813–1899), also known as Jamgön Kongtrül the Great, was a Tibetan Buddhist scholar, poet, artist, physician, tertön and polymath.
Je Tsongkhapa
Tsongkhapa (Tibetan: ཙོང་ཁ་པ་, meaning: "the man from Tsongkha" or "the Man from Onion Valley", c. 1357–1419) was an influential Tibetan Buddhist monk, philosopher and tantric yogi, whose activities led to the formation of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Jonang
The Jonang is a school of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Kagyu and Jonang are schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Jonang
Kadam (Tibetan Buddhism)
Tibetan Portrait of Atiśa The Kadam school of Tibetan Buddhism was an 11th century Buddhist tradition founded by the great Bengali master Atiśa (982–1054) and his students like Dromtön (1005–1064), a Tibetan Buddhist lay master. Kagyu and Kadam (Tibetan Buddhism) are schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Kadam (Tibetan Buddhism)
Kalachakra
Kālacakra is a polysemic term in Vajrayana Buddhism as well as Hinduism that means "wheel of time" or "time cycles".
Kalu Rinpoche
Kalu Rinpoche (1905 – May 10, 1989) was a Tibetan Buddhist lama, meditation master, scholar and teacher.
Karma Chagme
The name Karma Chagme refers to a 17th-century Tibetan Buddhist (Vajrayāna) lama and to the tülku (reincarnate lama) lineage which he initiated.
Karma Kagyu
Karma Kagyu, or Kamtsang Kagyu, is a widely practiced and probably the second-largest lineage within the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Karma Pakshi, 2nd Karmapa Lama
Karma Pakshi (1204/6–1283) was the 2nd Gyalwa Karmapa.
See Kagyu and Karma Pakshi, 2nd Karmapa Lama
Karmamudrā
Karmamudrā (Sanskrit; "action seal," Tibetan: las-kyi phyag-rgya; commonly misspelled as: kāmamudrā or "desire seal") is a Vajrayana Buddhist technique which makes use of sexual union with a physical or visualized consort as well as the practice of inner heat (tummo) to achieve a non-dual state of bliss and insight into emptiness.
Karmapa
The Gyalwa Karmapa (honorific title: His Holiness the Gyalwa (label) Karmapa, more formally as Gyalwang (label) Karmapa, and informally as the Karmapa Lama) is the head of the Karma Kagyu, the largest sub-school of the Kagyu school, itself one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Karmapa controversy
There are currently two, separately enthroned 17th Gyalwang Karmapas: Ogyen Trinley Dorje and Trinley Thaye Dorje.
See Kagyu and Karmapa controversy
Kathok Monastery
Kathok Monastery (THL Kathok Gön), also transliterated as Kathog, Katok, or Katog, was founded in 1159 and is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" in Tibet of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Kathok Monastery
Kham
Kham is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the northeast, while Ü-Tsang in central Tibet and Ngari in western Tibet together form the third region.
See Kagyu and Kham
Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche (1 March 1934 – 22 June 2024) was a Tibetan scholar yogi in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Kinnaur district
Kinnaur district is one of the twelve administrative districts of the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India.
See Kagyu and Kinnaur district
Kukkuripa
Kukkuripa was a mahasiddha who lived in India.
Ladakh
Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.
See Kagyu and Ladakh
Lahaul and Spiti district
The Lahaul and Spiti district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh consists of the two formerly separate districts of Lahaul and Spiti. The present administrative center is Kyelang in Lahaul.
See Kagyu and Lahaul and Spiti district
Lama
Lama is a title for a teacher of the Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Lama
Lamdre
Lamdré is a meditative system in Tibetan Buddhism rooted in the view that the result of its practice is contained within the path.
See Kagyu and Lamdre
Lamrim
Lamrim (Tibetan: "stages of the path") is a Tibetan Buddhist textual form for presenting the stages in the complete path to enlightenment as taught by Buddha.
See Kagyu and Lamrim
Lhozhag County
Lhozhag County is a county of Shannnan located in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Lojong
Lojong ('mind training') is a contemplative practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition which makes use of various lists of aphorisms or slogans which are used for contemplative practice.
See Kagyu and Lojong
Lotsawa
Lotsawa is a Tibetan title used to refer to the Nyingma's Ancient Translation School of 108 Tibetan translators, which include Vairotsana, Rinchen Zangpo, Marpa Lotsawa, Tropu Lotsawa Jampa Pel and many others.
Luminous mind
Luminous mind (Skt: or, Pali:; Tib: འོད་གསལ་གྱི་སེམས་; Ch: 光明心; Jpn: 清浄心; Kor) is a Buddhist term which appears only rarely in the Pali Canon, but is common in the Mahayana sūtras and central to the Buddhist tantras.
Lung (Tibetan Buddhism)
Lung (rlung) means wind or breath.
See Kagyu and Lung (Tibetan Buddhism)
Madhyamaka
Mādhyamaka ("middle way" or "centrism";; Tibetan: དབུ་མ་པ་; dbu ma pa), otherwise known as Śūnyavāda ("the emptiness doctrine") and Niḥsvabhāvavāda ("the no ''svabhāva'' doctrine"), refers to a tradition of Buddhist philosophy and practice founded by the Indian Buddhist monk and philosopher Nāgārjuna.
Mahamudra
Mahāmudrā (Sanskrit: महामुद्रा,, contraction of) literally means "great seal" or "great imprint" and refers to the fact that "all phenomena inevitably are stamped by the fact of wisdom and emptiness inseparable".
Mahasiddha
Mahasiddha (Sanskrit: mahāsiddha "great adept) is a term for someone who embodies and cultivates the "siddhi of perfection".
Mahāmāyā Tantra
The Mahāmāyā Tantra,Toh 425, Degé Kangyur vol.
Maitripada
Maitrīpāda (1007–1085, also known as Maitreyanātha, Advayavajra, and, to Tibetans, Maitrīpa), was a prominent Indian Buddhist Mahasiddha associated with the Mahāmudrā transmission of tantric Buddhism.
Mandala
A mandala (circle) is a geometric configuration of symbols.
Manjushri
Manjushri (Mañjuśrī) is a bodhisattva who represents prajñā (transcendent wisdom) of the Buddhas in Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Marpa Lotsawa
Marpa Lotsāwa (མར་པ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་, 1012–1097), sometimes known fully as Marpa Chökyi Lodrö (Wylie: mar pa chos kyi blo gros) or commonly as Marpa the Translator (Marpa Lotsāwa), was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher credited with the transmission of many Vajrayana teachings from India, including the teachings and lineages of Mahamudra.
Mikyö Dorje, 8th Karmapa Lama
Mikyö Dorje (1507–1554) was the eighth Karmapa, head of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Mikyö Dorje, 8th Karmapa Lama
Milarepa
Jetsun Milarepa (1028/40–1111/23) was a Tibetan siddha, who was famously known as a murderer when he was a young man, before turning to Buddhism and becoming a highly accomplished Buddhist disciple.
Monasticism
Monasticism, also called monachism or monkhood, is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work.
Nagarjuna
Nagarjuna (Sanskrit: नागार्जुन/ Nāgārjuna) was an Indian monk and Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school.
Nangqên County
Nangqên County, or Nangchen, is currently a county of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and is the southernmost county-level division of Qinghai province, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south.
Naropa
Nāropā (Prakrit; Nāropāda, Naḍapāda or Abhayakirti) or Abhayakirti was an Indian Buddhist Mahasiddha.
See Kagyu and Naropa
Nenang Pawo
Nenang Pawo is one of the highest lamas of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Niguma
Niguma is considered one of the most important and influential yoginis and Vajrayana teachers of the 10th or 11th century in India.
See Kagyu and Niguma
Nyingma
Nyingma, often referred to as Ngangyur, is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Kagyu and Nyingma are schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava ("Born from a Lotus"), also known as Guru Rinpoche (Precious Guru) and the Lotus from Oḍḍiyāna, was a tantric Buddhist Vajra master from medieval India who taught Vajrayana in Tibet (circa 8th – 9th centuries)... According to some early Tibetan sources like the Testament of Ba, he came to Tibet in the 8th century and helped construct Samye Monastery, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet.
Palpung Monastery
Palpung Monastery is the name of the congregation of monasteries and centers of the Tai Situpa lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the name of the Tai Situ's monastic seat in Babang, Kham (modern Sichuan).
See Kagyu and Palpung Monastery
Phagdru Kagyu
The Phagmo Drupa Kagyu or Phagdru Kagyu (ཕག་གྲུ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད) is a subschool of the Tibetan Kagyu school. Kagyu and Phagdru Kagyu are schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Phagmo Drupa Dorje Gyalpo
Phagmo Drupa Dorje Gyalpo, was one of the three main disciples of Gampopa Sonam Rinchen who established the Dagpo Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism; and a disciple of Sachen Kunga Nyingpo one of the founders of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Phagmo Drupa Dorje Gyalpo
Phowa
Phowa is a tantric practice found in both Hinduism and Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Phowa
Qinghai
Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest.
Ralung Monastery
Ralung Monastery, located in the Tsang region of western Tibet south of Karo Pass, is the traditional seat of the Drukpa Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Ralung Monastery
Rangjung Dorje, 3rd Karmapa Lama
The 3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (Tibetan: རང་འབྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1284–1339) was a Karmapa and head of the Karma Kagyu school, the largest school within the Kagyu tradition.
See Kagyu and Rangjung Dorje, 3rd Karmapa Lama
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa
The Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (August 14, 1924 – November 5, 1981) was the spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa
Rangtong and shentong
Shentong (Wylie: gzhan stong, "emptiness of other") is term for a type of Buddhist view on emptiness (śūnyatā), Madhyamaka, and the two truths in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Rangtong and shentong
Rechung Dorje Drakpa
Rechung Dorje Drakpa (1083/4-1161), known as Rechungpa, was one of the two most important students of the 11th century yogi and poet Milarepa and founder of the Rechung Kagyu subtradition of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Rigdzin Kumaradza
Rigdzin Kumaradza (1266–1343) was a Dzogchen master in the lineage of the Vima Nyingthig.
See Kagyu and Rigdzin Kumaradza
Sachen Kunga Nyingpo
Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092–1158) was a Tibetan spiritual leader and the first of the Five Venerable Supreme Sakya Masters of Tibet.
See Kagyu and Sachen Kunga Nyingpo
Saraha
Saraha, Sarahapa, Sarahapāda (or, in the Tibetan language མདའ་བསྣུན་,, Wyl. mda' bsnun The Archer), (circa 8th century CE) was known as the first sahajiya and one of the Mahasiddhas.
See Kagyu and Saraha
Shalu Monastery
Shalu Monastery is small monastery south of Shigatse in Tibet.
Shamarpa
The Shamarpa (literally, "Person (i.e. Holder) of the Red Crown"), also known as Shamar Rinpoche, or more formally Künzig Shamar Rinpoche, is the second oldest lineage of tulkus (reincarnated lamas).
Shangpa Kagyu
The Shangpa Kagyu ("Oral Tradition of the man from Shang") is known as the "secret lineage" of the Kagyu school of Vajrayana or Tibetan Buddhism and differs in origin from the better known Dagpo Kagyu schools.
Shavaripa
Shavaripa (Sanskrit: Śabara) was an Indian Buddhist teacher, one of the eighty-four Mahasiddhas, honored as being among the holders of the distant transmission of Mahamudra.
Shukseb Jetsun Chönyi Zangmo
Shukseb Jetsunma Chönyi Zangmo (1865–1953) was the most well known of the yoginis in the 1900s, and was considered an incarnation of Machig Lapdron.
See Kagyu and Shukseb Jetsun Chönyi Zangmo
Six Dharmas of Naropa
The Six Dharmas of Nāropa (Skt. ṣaḍdharma, "Naro's six doctrines" or "six teachings") are a set of advanced Tibetan Buddhist tantric practices compiled by the Indian mahasiddhas Tilopa and Nāropa (1016-1100 CE) and passed on to the Tibetan translator-yogi Marpa Lotsawa (c.
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Sukhasiddhi
Sukhasiddhi (flourished 11th Century) was an Indian teacher of Vajrayana Buddhism, a yogini and master of meditation.
Surmang
Surmang (or Zurmang) refers to a vast alpine nomadic and farming region, historically a duchy under the King of Nangchen, with vast land holdings spreading over what is today the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province.
Tai Situpa
Tai Situpa (from) is one of the oldest lineages of tulkus (reincarnated lamas) in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism In Tibetan Buddhism tradition, Kenting Tai Situpa is considered as emanation of Bodhisattva Maitreya and Guru Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) and who has been incarnated numerous times as Indian and Tibetan yogis since the time of the historical Buddha.
Taklung Kagyu
The Taklung Kagyu is a sub-school of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Taklung Thangpa Tashi Pal
Taklung Thangpa Tashi Pal (1142–1210) is the Founder of the Taklung Kagyu lineage.
See Kagyu and Taklung Thangpa Tashi Pal
Tara (Buddhism)
Tara (तारा,; སྒྲོལ་མ), Ārya Tārā (Noble Tara), also known as Jetsün Dölma (Tibetan: rje btsun sgrol ma, meaning: "Venerable Mother of Liberation"), is an important female Buddha in Buddhism, especially revered in Vajrayana Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism.
Terma (religion)
Terma ("hidden treasure") are various forms of hidden teachings that are key to Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhist and Bon spiritual traditions. In the Vajrayana Nyingma school tradition, two lineages occur: an oral kama lineage and a revealed terma lineage. Tradition holds that terma teachings were originally esoterically hidden by eighth-century Vajrayana masters Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyal, to be discovered at auspicious times by treasure revealers known as tertöns.
See Kagyu and Terma (religion)
Tibet
Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.
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Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia. Kagyu and Tibetan Buddhism are religion in Tibet.
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Tilopa
Tilopa (Prakrit; Sanskrit: Talika or Tilopadā; 988–1069) was an Indian Buddhist tantric mahasiddha who lived along the Ganges River.
See Kagyu and Tilopa
Tiphupa
Tiphupa was an Indian Buddhist teacher from the 11th and 12th century who was considered to be the rebirth of Darma Dode, son and student of Tibetan lama Marpa Lotsawa.
Tsangpa Gyare
The great ascetic Drogon Tsangpa Gyare (1161–1211) was the main disciple of Lingchen Repa Pema Dorje and the founder of the Drukpa Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism the main or central branch of which was, until the 17th century, transmitted by his hereditary family lineage at Ralung in the Tsang region of Tibet.
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920 – February 13, 1996) (टुल्कु उर्ग्येन् रिन्पोचे) was a Buddhist master of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages who lived at Nagi Gompa hermitage in Nepal.
See Kagyu and Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Tummo
In Tibetan Buddhism, tummo (caṇḍālī) is the fierce goddess of heat and passion.
See Kagyu and Tummo
Two truths doctrine
The Buddhist doctrine of the two truths (Sanskrit: dvasatya) differentiates between two levels of satya (Sanskrit; Pali: sacca; word meaning "truth" or "reality") in the teaching of the Śākyamuni Buddha: the "conventional" or "provisional" (saṁvṛti) truth, and the "ultimate" (paramārtha) truth.
See Kagyu and Two truths doctrine
Vajradhara
Vajradhara is the ultimate primordial Buddha, or Adi-Buddha, according to the Sakya, Gelug and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Vajrakilaya
In Tibetan Buddhism, Vajrakilaya (Diamond-dagger, also label; or Vajrakumara (Diamond-youth) is a wrathful heruka yidam deity who embodies the enlightened activity of all the Buddhas. His practice is known for being the most powerful for removing obstacles and destroying the forces hostile to compassion.
Vajravārāhī
In Tibetan Buddhism, Vajravārāhī ("The Indestructable Sow", Dorje Pakmo) is considered a female buddha and "the root of all emanations of dakinis".
Virūpa
Virupa (Virūpa; Tib. bi ru pa or bir wa pa), also known as Virupaksa and Tutop Wangchuk, was an 8th-9th century Indian mahasiddha and yogi, and the source of important cycles of teachings in tantric Buddhism.
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Wangchuk Dorje, 9th Karmapa Lama
Wangchuk Dorje (1556–1603) was the ninth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.
See Kagyu and Wangchuk Dorje, 9th Karmapa Lama
Yidam
A yidam or iṣṭadevatā is a meditational deity that serves as a focus for meditation and spiritual practice, said to be manifestations of Buddhahood or enlightened mind.
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Yogachara
Yogachara (योगाचार, IAST) is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through the interior lens of meditation, as well as philosophical reasoning (hetuvidyā).
Yogini
A yogini (Sanskrit: योगिनी, IAST) is a female master practitioner of tantra and yoga, as well as a formal term of respect for female Hindu or Buddhist spiritual teachers in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Greater Tibet.
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Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (retranscribed into Tibetan as), also transliterated as Yüxü or Yulshul, is an autonomous prefecture of Southwestern Qinghai Province, China.
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Zanskar
Zanskar, Zahar (locally) or Zangskar, is a tehsil of Kargil district, in the Indian union territory of Ladakh.
Zhang Yudrakpa Tsöndru Drakpa
Zhang Yudrakpa Tsöndru Drakpa (1122–93) (zhang g.yu brag pa brtson 'gru brags pa), also known as Gungtang Lama Zhang (gung-thang bla-ma zhang) and often simply as Lama Zhang, was the founder of the Tshalpa Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche
Prior to his birth on 30 June 1965, Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche (Tibetan: ཟུར་མང་གར་དབང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie: zur mang gar dbang rin po che) was recognized by the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa as the twelfth incarnation of the Gharwang Tulkus and as an emanation of Tilopa.
See Kagyu and Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche
See also
Buddhism in Bhutan
- Bhutanese art
- Buddhism in Bhutan
- Dagpo Kagyu
- Drukpa Kagyu
- Je Khenpo
- Kagyu
- Khamtrul Rinpoche
- Phajo Drugom Zhigpo
- Tibetan dual system of government
- Zhabdrung Rinpoche
Religion in Tibet
- Bön Kangyur and Tengyur
- Bible translations into Tibetan
- Bon
- Buddhism in Tibet
- Christianity in Tibet
- Kagyu
- Kunkhyen Pema Karpo
- Kyunglung
- Lhamo La-tso
- Religion in Tibet
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Tibetan Muslims
Schools of Tibetan Buddhism
- Bodongpa
- Changling Rinpoche
- Drikung Kagyu
- Gelug
- Jonang
- Kadam (Tibetan Buddhism)
- Kagyu
- New Kadampa
- Nyingma
- Phagdru Kagyu
- Red Hat sect
- Rimé movement
- Sakya
References
Also known as Bka'-Brgyud-Pa, Bka’-brgyud, Kagyu Lineage, Kagyu school, Kagyu tradition, Kagyud, Kagyudpa, Kagyue, Kagyüpa, Kahjyupa, Kargyu, Kargyudpa, Kargyupa.