Phag mo gru pa rdo rje rgyal po

PersonType	Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon	Pakmodrupa Dorje Gyalpo
MainNameTib	ཕག་མོ་གྲུ་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་པོ་
MainNameWylie	phag mo gru pa rdo rje rgyal po
AltNamesTib	ཕག་མོ་གྲུ་པ་
AltNamesWylie	phag mo gru pa
BiographicalInfo	He was the older brother or cousin of KaH thog dam pa bde gshegs.
YearBirth	1110
YearDeath	1170
TibDateGender	Male
TibDateElement	Iron
TibDateAnimal	Tiger
TibDateRabjung	2
ReligiousAffiliation	phag gru bka' brgyud
StudentOf	Sachen Kunga Nyingpo  ·  Gampopa  ·  Chapa Chökyi Senge
TeacherOf	Jikten Gönpo  ·  gling ras pa pad+ma rdo rje  ·  stag lung thang pa bkra shis dpal  ·  gyer sgom tshul khrims seng+ge  ·  Tropu Lotsāwa Jampai Pal  ·  Drogon Rechen
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P127
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Pakmodrupa-Dorje-Gyelpo/2539
Himalayan Art Resources	https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=956
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	A Tibetan scholar and adept who is counted as one of the great disciples of the key Bka’ brgyud founder Sgam po pa Bsod nams rinchen, and is venerated as the source for many subsequent Bka’ brgyud lineages. Born in the ’Bri lung rme shod region of eastern Tibet, Phag mo gru pa’s parents died while he was still young. Receiving ordination as a novice Buddhist monk at the age of eight, he studied under a variety of teachers during the early part of his life. At eighteen, he traveled to central Tibet, receiving full ordination at the age of twenty-five. There he trained under a number of Bka’ gdams pa teachers, and later, under the great Sa skya master Sa chen Kun dga snying po, from whom he received extensive instruction in the tradition of the path and its result (lam ’bras). At the age of forty, he traveled to Dwags lha sgam po in Southern Tibet, where he met Sgam po pa, who became his principal guru. Sgam po pa famously held up a half-eaten ball of parched barley flour mixed with tea and said to Phag mo gru pa, “This is greater than the results of all your previous meditation.” After he demonstrated his humility by carrying stones to build a stūpa, Sgam po pa gave Phag mo gru pa the transmission of instructions on mahāmudrā meditation and, through their practice, is said to have attained great realization. In 1158, Phag mo gru pa established a simple meditation hut where he lived until his death in 1170; this location later served as the foundation for the influential monastery of Gdan sa mthil. Phag mo gru pa was renowned for his strict adherence to the vinaya, even going on alms rounds, a rare practice in Tibet. Several individuals among his many followers established a number of important branch lineages, the so-called “eight minor Bka’ brgyud subsects” that collectively came to be known as the Phag gru Bka’ brgyud. (Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr. The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism [Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014], 639).
PosEmptyLumin	Tathagatagarbha as the Dharmakaya
PosEmptyLuminNotes	From Śākya Chogden;s summary of the main positions on buddha nature his view is included among the heading "Asserting buddha nature as the compound of natural purity and buddha qualities’ being inseparable" and with the sub-heading of "Asserting those qualities to be the qualities of the fruitional dharmakāya of realization (many Kagyüpas such as Pamo Trupa)." Karl Brunnhölzl, When the Clouds Part, p. 79. A more complete translation of the above summary can be found in Klaus-Dieter Mathes, A Direct Path to the Buddha Within, p. 34.
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Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā.

Vinaya refers to the corpus of Buddhist teachings on moral discipline and precepts and is one of the three canonical sets of teachings alongside Sūtra and Abhidharma. It also refers to the monastic tradition which has been passed down since the Buddha's time until our time.

The qualities or attributes of an enlightened being.

In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas.

Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain.