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*Assumes office 1409 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)
*Leaves office 1419 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)
*Founds monastery 1409 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)
*Final Ordination 1381 yar klung rnam rgyal dgon
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One of the group of students of Phadampa Sangye associated with his final visit to Tibet that are collectively known as the ''Four Gatekeeper Yogins'' (''sgo ba'i rnal 'byor bzhi''), each of which are associated with one of the cardinal directions. Tukse Kunga, often referred to as Kunga the Bodhisattva (''byang chub sems dpa' kun dga'''), is associated with the northern gate (''byang sgo''). +
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One of the group of students of Phadampa Sangye associated with his final visit to Tibet that are collectively known as the ''Four Gatekeeper Yogins'' (''sgo ba'i rnal 'byor bzhi''), each of which are associated with one of the cardinal directions. Vajra Krodha is associated with the southern gate (''lho sgo''). +
Circa 5th Century/6th Century +
(bir wa pa), one of the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas of India, was born into a royal family one thousand and twenty years after Lord Buddha entered parinirvana. He took novice monk vows and entered the Nalanda monastery, of which he became abbot later. He perfected his disciples of study and meditation. However, after seventy years of one-pointed tantric practice he had not attained any siddhis of any kind, and actually negative events were happening in his life. He decided he had no connection with the tantric teachings, Vajrayana, and with this state of mind he threw his rosary into the toilet and stopped doing Deity Meditations.</br>
However, the same night Nairatmya manifested for him, and said:
:Noble son, do not act in this way. Pick up your rosary, clean it, and take up your practice again. I am the deity which whom you have a karmic connection to, and I will bestow my blessings upon you".
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The following evening Nairatmya appeared to him again in her own mandala of fifteen goddesses, and she bestowed upon him the four specific empowerments, and he reached the first bodhisattva bhumi level including the Path of Seeing. On the evening of the twenty-ninth day he became a bodhisattva of the sixth bhumi. The monastic community at Nalanda monastery knew that something strange happened, but they were dubious about the strange behavior of Virupa, and he left the monastery. [http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Virupa RYWIKI] +
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12th century +
[https://jonangfoundation.org/masters/shangt%C3%B6n-gyawo-s%C3%B6nam-drakpa Biography on Jonang Foundation Website] +
