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Kagyu
Tibetan name
Tibetan: བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
Wylie transliteration: bka’ brgyud
pronunciation in IPA: [kacy]
official transcription (PRC): Gagyü
THDL: Kagyü
other transcriptions: Kagyu, Kargyu, Kargyü
Chinese name
traditional: 白教、噶舉派
simplified: 白教、噶举派
Pinyin: báijiào, Gájǔpài

The Kagyu school, also known as the "Oral Lineage" and "the Spotless Practice Lineage" school, is one of five schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the other four being Nyingma (Rnying-ma), Sakya (Sa-skya), Gelug (Dge-lugs) and Bön. Tibetan refers to a group of languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia as well as by overseas The Tibetan script is an Abugida of Indic origin used to write the Tibetan language as well as the Dzongkha language, Ladakhi language The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating the Tibetan script using the keys on a typical English language Typewriter. Tibetan pinyin is the official transcription system for the Tibetan language in the People's Republic of China. Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES The THDL Simplified Phonetic Transcription of Standard Tibetan (or THDL Phonetic Transcription for short is a system for the phonetic rendering of the Tibetan Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and certain regions of the Himalayas, including The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism (the other three being the Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug) This articles concerns the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism For information on the ancient Śākya tribe see Shakya. The Gelug or Gelug-pa, also known as the Yellow Hat sect, is a school of Buddhism founded by Tsongkhapa (1357–1419 a Philosopher Bön ( is the oldest spiritual tradition of Tibet. Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, has recognized the Bön tradition as the fifth principal spiritual

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Origins

Almost the entirety of the Kagyu school traces its origins to the teachings of the Indian mystics Tilopa (988-1089) and Naropa (1016-1100), whose lineage was transmitted in Tibet by the great translator Marpa (1012-1097). Tilopa ( Tibetan; Sanskrit: Talika, 988–1069 was born in either Chativavo ( Chittagong) Bengal or Jagora Bengal Events By Place Africa Al-Azhar University is founded in Cairo, Egypt (the second oldest university in the world Nāropā ( Tibetan; Sanskrit: Nādapradā, 956-1041 was an Indian Buddhist mystic and Monk, the disciple of Definitions of Tibet See also Definitions of Tibet Name In English The English word Tibet, like the word for Tibet in most European Marpa Lotsawa (1012-1097 or Marpa the translator was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher credited with the transmission of many Buddhist teachings to He took over the mahamudra ("great seal") transmission lineage from Naropa. Mahamudra (Sanskrit Mahāmudrā, Tibetan Chagchen, Wylie phyag chen, contraction of Chagya Chenpo, Wylie phyag rgya chen po) literally means Moreover Marpa studied with the Indian Masters Maitripa and Kukuripa. According to some accounts, on his third journey to India he met Atiśa (982-1054) and studied the teachings of the Kadampa masters[2] (both Kagyu and Gelug schools trace their roots to the earlier Kadampa school, although generally this is traced back to Gampopa). Early life Atisha is most commonly said to have been born in the year 980 in Vajrayogini village in Bikrampur, the northeastern region of Bengal (located in Events By Place Americas Greenland is discovered by Erik the Red (the first known European contact with North The Kadam ( tradition was a Tibetan Mahayana Buddhist school Dromtönpa a Tibetan lay master and the foremost disciple of the great Indian Buddhist Marpa spent 17 years in India and is known as one of the great translators of the second translation period. Marpa's principal disciple was Milarepa (Mi-la-ras-pa) (1052-1135), widely considered one of Tibet's great religious poets and meditators. Jetsun Milarepa ( (c 1052-c 1135 CE) is generally considered one of Tibet 's most famous Yogis and poets a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and Among Milarepa's many students were Dagpo Lharje Gampopa (Sgam-po-pa) (1079-1153), a great scholar, and the great yogi Rechung Dorje Drakpa, also known as Rechungpa. Gampopa ( (1079-1153 "the man from Gampo" — who was equally well known in Tibet as Sonam Rinchen ( Dagpo Lhaje ( ("the Physician from Dagpo" Rechung Dorje Drakpa ( Wylie: Ras-chung Rdo-rje Grags-pa, known as Rechungpa, was one of the two most important students of the 11th century Kagyu

Following Gampopa's teachings, there evolved the so-called "Four Major and Eight Minor" lineages of the Dagpo (sometimes rendered "Tagpo" or "Dakpo") Kagyu School. This organization is descriptive of the generation in which the schools were founded, not of their realization or prominence. The Rechung Kagyu school that descended from Rechungpa has always been far smaller and more obscure.

The Shangpa Kagyu, which was relatively obscure until the last hundred years, traces its lineage to Naropa's sister Niguma, and is sometimes not considered a "Kagyu" school at all. The Shangpa Kagyu is known as the "secret" lineage and different origins than the better known Dagpo Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

Four major schools of the Dagpo Kagyu

  • Surmang Kagyu, founded by Trungmase, a student of Deshin Shekpa, the 5th Gyalwa Karmapa
  • Nendo Kagyu, founded by Karma Chagme (kar ma chags med) (1613-1678), a disciple of the 6th Shamarpa (zhwa dmar chos kyi dbang phyug) (1584-1630)
  • Gyaltön Kagyu

Eight Pagdru Kagyu sub-schools

The only Kagyu schools that continue to exist independently are the Karma, Drukpa, Drikung, and Taklung. The Taklung Kagyu is a relatively obscure sub-sect of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Teachings

The central teaching of Kagyu is the doctrine of Mahamudra, "the Great Seal", as elucidated by Gampopa in his various works. Mahamudra (Sanskrit Mahāmudrā, Tibetan Chagchen, Wylie phyag chen, contraction of Chagya Chenpo, Wylie phyag rgya chen po) literally means This doctrine focuses on four principal stages of meditative practice (the Four Yogas of Mahamudra), namely:

  1. The development of single-pointedness of mind,
  2. The transcendence of all conceptual elaboration,
  3. The cultivation of the perspective that all phenomena are of a "single taste",
  4. The fruition of the path, which is beyond any contrived acts of meditation.

It is through these four stages of development that the practitioner is said to attain the perfect realization of Mahamudra.

Important practices in all Kagyu schools are the tantric practices of Chakrasamvara and Vajrayogini, and particularly the Six Yogas of Naropa. Vajrayogini ( Tibetan: Dorje Naljorma, Wylie Rdo rje rnal ’byor ma) Is the Vajra Yogini, literally 'the diamond female The Six Yogas of Nāropa or Naro Choe Druk ( Tib na-ro'i-chos-drug) also called Naro's Six Doctrines or the Six Dharmas of Naropa

In terms of view, the Kagyu (particularly the Karma Kagyu) emphasize the Hevajra tantra with commentaries by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye and Dakpo Tashi Namgyal, the Uttaratantra with commentaries by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye and another by Gölo Shönu Pal as a basis for studying buddha nature, and the the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje's Profound Inner Reality (Tib. Hevajra (Tibetan kye'i rdo rje / kye rdo rje) is one of the main Yidams in Tantric, or Vajrayana Buddhism. The Karmapa (officially His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa) is the head of the Karma Kagyu, the largest sub-school of the Kagyupa ( Tibetan Rangjung Dorje ( Wylie: rang 'byung rdo rje) (b 1284 - d 1339 was the third Karmapa, an important figure in the history of Tibetan Buddhism Zabmo Nangdon) with commentaries by Rangjung Dorje and Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye as a basis for tantra. Jamgon Kongtrul was a prominent Tibetan Buddhist teacher ( Lama) and is also the name shared by members of a lineage held by tradition to be his subsequent reincarnations

References

  1. ^ " Transcriptions of teachings given by His Eminence the 12th Kenting Tai Situpa (2005)," [1]

External links

Sites associated with Trinlay Thaye Dorje

Sites associated with Urgyen Trinley Dorje

Drikung Kagyu sites

Unaffiliated sites


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