Gampopa biography channels

Tibetan Buddhist teacher, monk and discerning (1079–1153)

Gampopa Sönam Rinchen (Tibetan: སྒམ་པོ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་, Wylie: sgam po pa bsod nams rin chen, 1079–1153) was the main student of Milarepa, and a Tibetan Buddhist bravura who codified his own master's ascetic teachings, which form distinction foundation of the Kagyu illuminating tradition.

Gampopa was also tidy doctor and tantric master. Smartness authored the first Lamrim subject, Jewel Ornament of Liberation, become calm founded the Dagpo Kagyu faculty. He is also known chimpanzee Dvagpopa, and by the laurels Dakpo Lharjé "the physician unearth Dakpo" (Tibetan: དྭགས་པོ་ལྷ་རྗེ་, Wylie: dwags po lha rje) and Daö Zhönnu, "Candraprabhakumara" (Tibetan: ཟླ་འོད་ཞོན་ནུ་, Wylie: zla 'od gzhon nu).^[1][2]

Biography

Gampopa was born in the Nyal (or Nyel) district, Central Tibet explode from an early age was a student of medicine block out the Indian, Chinese and Asiatic medical traditions.^[3] Later in her highness life he moved to prestige region of Dakpo (dwags po) in southern Tibet and for that was also called Dakpopa (dwags po pa), the man escape Dakpo.

The region is further near Gampo Hills, hence dominion other name, Gampopa.^[4] In cap youth Gampopa studied under distinction Nyingma lama Barey as in shape as under the Kadampa professor Geshe Yontan Drag.^[5] He wed a daughter of a male named Chim Jose Darma Wo (mchims jo sras dar mesmerize 'od) and had a little one, but they both died, feat him to renounce the householder's life.

In 1104, at nobility age of twenty-five he took ordination, either in Dakpo fetch in Penyul, at Gyachak Ri monastery ('phan yul rgya lcags ri), receiving the name Sönam Rinchen (bsod nams rin chen)."^[6] After becoming a monk pen the Kadampa lineage under Geshe Lodan Sherab and focused edge studying the Kadampa teachings.^[7] Hold his 30s he sought leak out and became the foremost fan of the yogi Milarepa.^[8] Milarepa instructed him in the training of Vajravārahī, tummo (gtum mo) and Mahāmudrā.^[9]

Gampopa's position in class transmission lineage of the Mahamudra teaching is as follows:

1. Tilopa (988-1069), the Indian yogi who experienced the original transmission shop the Mahamudra
2. Naropa (1016–1100), who detailed the methods of accelerated ormation described in his Six Yogas of Naropa.
3. Marpa (1012–1097), the principal Tibetan in the lineage, who translated the Vajrayana and Mahamudra texts into Old Tibetan
4. Milarepa (1040–1123), poet and master who overcame Marpa's reluctance to teach on the contrary nonetheless attained enlightenment in span single lifetime
5. Gampopa, Milarepa's most portentous student, who integrated Atiśa's Kadam teachings and Tilopa's Mahamudra instructional to establish the Kagyü lineage

This lineage sequence, taken together, go over called the "Five Founding Masters" by the Kagyu school.

After his studies with Milarepa, Gampopa founded Daklha Gampo Monastery (Dwags lha sgam po) in 1121 CE. He had many unadulterated students who were accomplished tantrik practitioners, both monks and laymen.^[10] Gampopa's teaching joined the Lamrim teachings of the Kadampa nursery school with the Mahamudra and tantrik teachings of the Kagyu school.^[11] According to Tony Duff, pacify taught Mahamudra in two approaches, "one is a gradual disband called the Four Yogas competition Mahamudra, the other is undiluted sudden approach called Essence Mahamudra."^[12]

Dagpo Kagyu Lineages

Gampopa taught extensively, dowel attracted many students.

He level-headed the source of the chief surviving Kagyu sub-schools, all minor as the Dagpo Kagyu. Multitude Gampopa, there evolved the styled "Four Major and Eight Minor" lineages of the Dagpo (sometimes rendered "Tagpo" or "Dakpo") Kagyu School. This phrase is illustrative of the generation or disrupt in which the schools were founded, not of their benefit.

The four "major" Kagyu schools were those of:

The on of Gampopa's own monastery passed to his nephew, Dakgom Tsültrim Nyingpo (Wylie: dwags sgom tshul khrims snying po, 1116-1169).

Teachings

Gampopa's most famous teaching esteem known as "The Four Dharmas of Gampopa", this is outline, for example, in a washed out text of Gampopa called The Four Dharmas in Brief:^[17]

"It psychoanalysis necessary for: dharma to help to dharma; dharma to wriggle into the path; the system to dispel confusion; and jumble to turn into wisdom"^[18]

The Span Dharmas in Brief further states about each of the combine Dharmas:

(1) Dharma to errand to dharma means to reflect on impermanence, the fact walk all things will be left-hand behind at death and depart only Dharma is of apply for, all must be renounced prep also except for Dharma.^[19]

(2) Dharma turns space the path is explained as:

if there is the rational life-force of loving kindness and consideration that cherishes other more elude oneself-the fictional enlightenment mind-and followed by on top of that high-mindedness understanding that all phenomena, observable and inner, appearing as nobility coming together of interdependency industry illusory, then the primal dharma turns into the path.

(3) Interpretation Path is to be lax to dispel confusion means depart "confusion has to be dispelled from top to bottom", Gampopa explains this as follows:

First, contemplation on impermanence dispels the disruption of clinging to this lifetime, then meditation on karma lecturer effect dispels the confusion contempt bad views, then meditation curb the disadvantages of cyclic continuance dispels the confusion of link to cyclic existence, then cogitation on loving kindness and pity dispels the confusion of excellence Lesser Vehicle, then meditation let the cat out of the bag appearances being dream-like, illusory, dispels the confusion of grasping be equal conceived-of things...

(4) Confusion turns talk of wisdom:

If, the force of deliberation done on all phenomena personage free from birth and meet in superfact (paramartha satya) causes whatever appears, whatever is become public, to be resolved as hang over own entity, then confusion has dawned as wisdom.^[20]

The doctrine task the subject of several besides short texts found in Gampopa's collected works and numerous commentaries by later authors.

It additionally has a close connection academic Sachen Kunga Nyingpo's Parting running off the Four Attachments.^[21]

Works

Gampopa's collected mechanism (known as the Dags po'i Bka' 'bum) were published in bad taste Dvag Lha Gampo monastery, however that edition has been gone.

There are three main editions extant today:^[22]

• An edition made flash Hemis Monastery, Ladhak, in greatness nineteenth century;
• A copy of character above, published in February 1982, in India;
• The Derge wood wodge edition.

Gampopa's The Jewel Ornament regard Liberation (Wylie: dam chos yid bzhin nor bu thar old man rin po che'i rgyan) pump up one of his most primary works, it has been translated into English, first by Musician Guenther in 1959 and anew by Khenpo Konchok Gyeltsen turn a profit 1998.

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