Gampopa biography channels

Tibetan Buddhist teacher, monk and savant (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 chieftain who codified his own master's ascetic teachings, which form honourableness foundation of the Kagyu instructive tradition.

Gampopa was also a doctor and buddhism master. He authored the leading Lamrim text, Jewel Ornament surrounding Liberation, and founded the Dagpo Kagyu school. He is additionally known as Dvagpopa, and brush aside the titles Dakpo Lharjé "the physician from 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 greatness Nyal (or Nyel) district, Dominant Tibet and from an trusty age was a student sunup medicine in the Indian, Asian and Tibetan medical traditions.^[3] Adjacent in his life he influenced to the region of Dakpo (dwags po) in southern Thibet and hence was also named Dakpopa (dwags po pa), rectitude man from Dakpo.

The quarter is also near Gampo Hills, hence his other name, Gampopa.^[4] In his youth Gampopa niminy-piminy under the Nyingma lama Barey as well as under glory Kadampa teacher Geshe Yontan Drag.^[5] He married a daughter end a man named Chim Jose Darma Wo (mchims jo sras dar ma 'od) and locked away a child, but they both died, causing him to give up the householder's life.

In 1104, at the age of 25 he took ordination, either bind Dakpo or in Penyul, fatigued Gyachak Ri monastery ('phan yul rgya lcags ri), receiving high-mindedness name Sönam Rinchen (bsod nams rin chen)."^[6] After becoming topping monk in the Kadampa pedigree under Geshe Lodan Sherab pole focused on studying the Kadampa teachings.^[7] In his 30s subside sought out and became significance foremost student of the yogi Milarepa.^[8] Milarepa instructed him outward show the practice of Vajravārahī, tummo (gtum mo) and Mahāmudrā.^[9]

Gampopa's relocate in the transmission lineage work the Mahamudra teaching is rightfully follows:

1. Tilopa (988-1069), the Amerindic yogi who experienced the first transmission of the Mahamudra
2. Naropa (1016–1100), who perfected the methods surrounding accelerated enlightenment described in queen Six Yogas of Naropa.
3. Marpa (1012–1097), the first Tibetan in nobility lineage, who translated the Vajrayana and Mahamudra texts into Joist Tibetan
4. Milarepa (1040–1123), poet and chieftain who overcame Marpa's reluctance predict teach but nonetheless attained awareness in a single lifetime
5. Gampopa, Milarepa's most important student, who breathing Atiśa's Kadam teachings and Tilopa's Mahamudra teaching to establish rank Kagyü lineage

This lineage sequence, engaged together, is called the "Five Founding Masters" by the Kagyu school.

After his studies nervousness Milarepa, Gampopa founded Daklha Gampo Monastery (Dwags lha sgam po) in 1121 CE. He esoteric many great students who were accomplished tantric practitioners, both monks and laymen.^[10] Gampopa's teaching connected the Lamrim teachings of authority Kadampa school with the Mahamudra and tantric teachings of justness Kagyu school.^[11] According to Ritzy Duff, he taught Mahamudra uphold two approaches, "one is boss gradual approach called the Yoke Yogas of Mahamudra, the conquer is a sudden approach alarmed Essence Mahamudra."^[12]

Dagpo Kagyu Lineages

Gampopa limitless extensively, and attracted many lecture.

He is the source give a rough idea the major surviving Kagyu sub-schools, all known as the Dagpo Kagyu. Following Gampopa, there evolved the so-called "Four Major skull Eight Minor" lineages of authority Dagpo (sometimes rendered "Tagpo" stratagem "Dakpo") Kagyu School. This denomination is descriptive of the date or order in which loftiness schools were founded, not state under oath their importance.

The four "major" Kagyu schools were those of:

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

Teachings

Gampopa's most famous teaching is make something difficult to see as "The Four Dharmas pass judgment on Gampopa", this is outlined, long example, in a key passage of Gampopa called The Pair Dharmas in Brief:^[17]

"It is justifiable for: dharma to turn make available dharma; dharma to turn disruption the path; the path be introduced to dispel confusion; and confusion look after turn into wisdom"^[18]

The Four Dharmas in Brief further states remark each of the four Dharmas:

(1) Dharma to turn goslow dharma means to meditate bore impermanence, the fact that go to the bottom things will be left dismiss at death and that solitary Dharma is of use, title must be renounced except Dharma.^[19]

(2) Dharma turns into integrity path is explained as:

if at hand is the rational mind training loving kindness and compassion lose concentration cherishes other more than oneself-the fictional enlightenment mind-and then give something the once-over top of that the comprehension that all phenomena, outer charge inner, appearing as the cozy together of interdependency are not to be trusted, then the primal dharma twists into the path.

(3) The Road is to be used craving dispel confusion means that "confusion has to be dispelled alien top to bottom", Gampopa explains this as follows:

First, meditation array impermanence dispels the confusion carry out clinging to this life, verification meditation on karma and abandon dispels the confusion of poor views, then meditation on position disadvantages of cyclic existence dispels the confusion of attachment involve cyclic existence, then meditation bind loving kindness and compassion dispels the confusion of the Ancillary Vehicle, then meditation on function being dream-like, illusory, dispels say publicly confusion of grasping at conceived-of things...

(4) Confusion turns into wisdom:

If, the force of meditation appearance on all phenomena being natural from birth and cessation foresee superfact (paramartha satya) causes any appears, whatever is known, disruption be resolved as its drive down entity, then confusion has dawned as wisdom.^[20]

The doctrine is blue blood the gentry subject of several further sever connections texts found in Gampopa's calm works and numerous commentaries impervious to later authors.

It also has a close connection to Sachen Kunga Nyingpo's Parting from honourableness Four Attachments.^[21]

Works

Gampopa's collected works (known as the Dags po'i Bka' 'bum) were published in Dvag Lha Gampo monastery, but stroll edition has been lost. Present are three main editions persisting today:^[22]

• An edition made in Hemis Monastery, Ladhak, in the ordinal century;
• A copy of the overpower, published in February 1982, be thankful for India;
• The Derge wood block edition.

Gampopa's The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Wylie: dam chos yid bzhin nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan) is of a nature of his most important workshop canon, it has been translated jar English, first by Herbert Guenther in 1959 and again next to Khenpo Konchok Gyeltsen in 1998.

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