Thaye, J.

Full Name

Jampa Thaye

Affiliation

Dharma Regent of Karma Thinley Rinpoche (Kagyu and Sakya)

Other Information

Online Bio: http://www.dechen.org/teachers/index.html

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 Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre.