'brug pa kun legs

'brug pa kun legs on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors

འབྲུག་པ་ཀུན་ལེགས་

Wylie	'brug pa kun legs

Other names

• ཀུན་དགའ་ལེགས་པ་

• kun dga' legs pa

Alternate names

• Kunga Lekpa
• Drukpa Kunleg

Dates

Birth:	1455
Death:	1529
Place of birth:	Ralung, Tibet

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Kagyu

Teachers

kun dga' dpal 'byor · kun dga' chos kyi rgya mtsho · pad+ma gling pa · rtogs ldan lha btsun pa · bsod nams mchog ldan · yar rgyab rtogs ldan · chos grags rgya mtsho

Other Biographical info:

Drukpa Kunley or Kunga Lekpa (1455-1529) was an eccentric master of the 'crazy yogi' or 'divine madman' type, whose enlightened deeds and exploits, often involving women and alcohol, are commonly recounted even to this day among Tibetans and Bhutanese people. (Source)

Drukpa Kunleg is renowned as the Divine Madman of Bhutan. Drukpa Kunleg was born into the branch of the noble Gya (rgya) clan of Ralung which descended from Lhabum (lha 'bum) the second eldest brother of Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje. His father was nang so rin chen bzang po. He was the nephew of Gyalwang Kunga Paljor. Father of Ngawang Tenzin and Zhingchong Drukdra. Established Chime Lhakhang (‘chi med lha khang), near Punakha (spung thang) in 1499. (Source)

Personal Relations from TBRC:

nang so rin chen bzang po - Father

mgon mo skyid - Mother

ngag dbang chos rgyal - Younger Brother

zhing skyong 'brug grags - Son

ngag dbang bstan 'dzin - Son

Links

BDRC Link

http://tbrc.org/#!rid=P816

Wiki Pages

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.