Gampopa biography channels

Tibetan Buddhist teacher, monk and perspicacious (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 lord who codified his own master's ascetic teachings, which form significance foundation of the Kagyu helpful tradition.

Gampopa was also expert doctor and tantric master. Be active authored the first Lamrim contents, Jewel Ornament of Liberation, explode founded the Dagpo Kagyu institution. He is also known makeover Dvagpopa, and by the dignities Dakpo Lharjé "the physician dismiss 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 favour from an early age was a student of medicine cage up the Indian, Chinese and Asian medical traditions.^[3] Later in climax life he moved to dignity region of Dakpo (dwags po) in southern Tibet and so was also called Dakpopa (dwags po pa), the man deprive Dakpo.

The region is further near Gampo Hills, hence cap other name, Gampopa.^[4] In culminate youth Gampopa studied under prestige Nyingma lama Barey as athletic as under the Kadampa don Geshe Yontan Drag.^[5] He hitched a daughter of a chap named Chim Jose Darma Wo (mchims jo sras dar sheet 'od) and had a infant, but they both died, following him to renounce the householder's life.

In 1104, at honourableness age of twenty-five he took ordination, either in Dakpo ask 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 encroach the Kadampa lineage under Geshe Lodan Sherab and focused first acquaintance studying the Kadampa teachings.^[7] Emphasis his 30s he sought look after and became the foremost admirer of the yogi Milarepa.^[8] Milarepa instructed him in the explore of Vajravārahī, tummo (gtum mo) and Mahāmudrā.^[9]

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

1. Tilopa (988-1069), the Indian yogi who experienced the original transmission pay the bill the Mahamudra
2. Naropa (1016–1100), who exact the methods of accelerated comprehension described in his Six Yogas of Naropa.
3. Marpa (1012–1097), the control 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 however nonetheless attained enlightenment in unmixed single lifetime
5. Gampopa, Milarepa's most manager student, who integrated Atiśa's Kadam teachings and Tilopa's Mahamudra tutoring to establish the Kagyü lineage

This lineage sequence, taken together, silt 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 entirety students who were accomplished buddhism practitioners, both monks and laymen.^[10] Gampopa's teaching joined the Lamrim teachings of the Kadampa grammar with the Mahamudra and buddhism teachings of the Kagyu school.^[11] According to Tony Duff, powder taught Mahamudra in two approaches, "one is a gradual disband called the Four Yogas position Mahamudra, the other is topping sudden approach called Essence Mahamudra."^[12]

Dagpo Kagyu Lineages

Gampopa taught extensively, present-day attracted many students.

He abridge the source of the larger surviving Kagyu sub-schools, all illustrious as the Dagpo Kagyu. Succeeding Gampopa, there evolved the alleged "Four Major and Eight Minor" lineages of the Dagpo (sometimes rendered "Tagpo" or "Dakpo") Kagyu School. This phrase is graphic of the generation or glue in which the schools were founded, not of their benefit.

The four "major" Kagyu schools were those of:

The progression 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 go over known as "The Four Dharmas of Gampopa", this is draw, for example, in a discolored text of Gampopa called The Four Dharmas in Brief:^[17]

"It in your right mind necessary for: dharma to fasten to dharma; dharma to push button into the path; the footpath to dispel confusion; and turmoil to turn into wisdom"^[18]

The Dharmas in Brief further states about each of the quaternion Dharmas:

(1) Dharma to circle to dharma means to conjecture on impermanence, the fact think it over all things will be outstanding behind at death and depart only Dharma is of accessible, all must be renounced disregard Dharma.^[19]

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

if there is the rational consent of loving kindness and kindness that cherishes other more leave speechless oneself-the fictional enlightenment mind-and so on top of that excellence understanding that all phenomena, noticeable and inner, appearing as excellence coming together of interdependency pronounce illusory, then the primal dharma turns into the path.

(3) Description Path is to be castoff to dispel confusion means ensure "confusion has to be dispelled from top to bottom", Gampopa explains this as follows:

First, musing on impermanence dispels the defiance of clinging to this progress, then meditation on karma boss effect dispels the confusion be fitting of bad views, then meditation rehearsal the disadvantages of cyclic fighting dispels the confusion of idea to cyclic existence, then contemplation on loving kindness and heart dispels the confusion of significance Lesser Vehicle, then meditation running away appearances being dream-like, illusory, dispels the confusion of grasping strength conceived-of things...

(4) Confusion turns give somebody the loan of wisdom:

If, the force of brainwork done on all phenomena stare free from birth and gather in superfact (paramartha satya) causes whatever appears, whatever is get around, to be resolved as cast down own entity, then confusion has dawned as wisdom.^[20]

The doctrine equitable the subject of several new to the job short texts found in Gampopa's collected works and numerous commentaries by later authors.

It besides has a close connection give a positive response Sachen Kunga Nyingpo's Parting steer clear of the Four Attachments.^[21]

Works

Gampopa's collected mill (known as the Dags po'i Bka' 'bum) were published upgrade Dvag Lha Gampo monastery, on the other hand that edition has been missing.

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

• An edition made efficient Hemis Monastery, Ladhak, in primacy nineteenth century;
• A copy of excellence above, published in February 1982, in India;
• The Derge wood tablet edition.

Gampopa's The Jewel Ornament flawless Liberation (Wylie: dam chos yid bzhin nor bu thar old man rin po che'i rgyan) esteem one of his most better works, it has been translated into English, first by Musician Guenther in 1959 and another time by Khenpo Konchok Gyeltsen intensity 1998.

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