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|TolLink=https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Layakpa-Jangchub-Ngodrub/10258
|tolExcerpt=Layakpa Jangchub Ngodrub was a disciple of Gampopa. He is best known for his commentaries on the Four Dharmas of Gampopa and his Sadhana of Cakrasaṃvara.
|tolExcerpt=Layakpa Jangchub Ngodrub (la yag pa byang chub dngos grub) was born in Layak, in Lhokha. He is sometimes called Layak Jose (la yag jo sras) or Layakpa Bawachan (la yag pa lba ba can). This last name signifies that, in addition to hailing from Layak, that he had a goiter (''lba ba''), a rather common medical condition in Tibet in those times.
 
Layakpa's childhood name was Chokyi Ngodrub (chos kyi dngos grub). His father, Tarka Pelkyi (star ka dpal skyid), was a learned man versed in Abhidharma as well as the tantras, both old and new. His grandfather Tarka Bodhirāja (star ka bo dhi rA dza) developed siddhis through his practice of the old tantras and lived to be one hundred and twelve years old. His mother, Taklo Dadron (stag lo zla sgron), was said to be a manifestation of a wisdom ḍākinī.
 
According to his hagiography, as a baby when there was no one to look after him, Chokyi Ngodrub was cared for by a mysterious white hand wearing ornaments. One day when he was three and his father started teaching him the alphabet, he protested saying, “Father, I know it, too!” A sensitive child who couldn't bear the thought of anyone suffering, he once fainted when a playmate burned a flea.
 
Chokyi Ngodrub's earlier studies focused on Prajñāpāramitā Sutras and the Chod practices, along with the treatises by Maitreya. He went at age seventeen for a brief stay in Tsang province, and when he returned two well-known disciples of the Kadampa philosopher Chapa Chokyi Sengge (phya pa chos kyi seng ge, d.u.) were there for the funeral of their teacher. He took this opportunity to further his understanding of the Prajñāpāramitā. People were very impressed by his performance in philosophical debates, and Chapa's student promised him he could be made into a master of Prajñāpāramitā in just one year of tutoring.
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PersonType Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon Layakpa Jangchub Ngödrup
MainNameTib ལ་ཡག་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་དངོས་གྲུབ་
MainNameWylie la yag pa byang chub dngos grub
AltNamesTib ལྷོ་ལ་ཡག་པ་  ·  ལ་ཡག་ཇོ་སྲས་
AltNamesWylie lho la yag pa  ·  la yag jo sras
YearBirth early 12th century
YearDeath late 12th century
BornIn la yag
ReligiousAffiliation Kagyu
StudentOf sgam po pa
BDRC https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P7589
Treasury of Lives https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Layakpa-Jangchub-Ngodrub/10258
IsInGyatsa No
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