Kagyu

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Key Term	Kagyu
Featured People	Marpa Chökyi Lodrö, Gampopa, Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje, Gö Lotsāwa Zhönu Pal, Eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorje
In Tibetan Script	བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	bka' brgyud
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	ka gyu
Alternate Spellings	bka' rgyud
Term Type	School
Source Language	Tibetan
Basic Meaning	The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the firsts monastery of the Kagyu order and as many as twelve sub-traditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.
Has the Sense of	The Marpa Kagyu (mar pa bka’ brgyud) tradition originated in the eleventh century with the Tibetan translator Marpa Chokyi Lodro, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa’s disciple Milarepa famously attained enlightenment in the caves of southern Tibet after renouncing a life of violent revenge; his disciple Gampopa merged the lay siddha practice of his master with the Kadampa monasticism and scholarship that he had previously studied. Gampopa founded the first Kagyu monastery, Daklha Gampo in southern Tibet. Following Gampopa the tradition split into multiple autonomous subsects known as the four primary (Barom, Pakdru, Karma, and Tselpa), and eight secondary traditions (Drigung, Drukpa, Martsang, Shukseb, Taklung, Tropu, Yabzang, and Yelpa Kagyu). Read more at Treasury of Lives
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The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.

The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.