Bdud mo bkra shis 'od zer

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Classical Tibetan Authors

བདུད་མོ་བ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འོད་ཟེར་

Wylie	bdud mo ba bkra shis 'od zer
English Phonetics	Dumowa Tashi Özer

Alternate names

• Dümo Tashi Öser
• Dümo Tashi Özer
• Dümo Dashi Öser

Dates

Birth:	c. 15th Century
Place of birth:	'bri stod (khams)

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Karma Kagyu

Primary Professional Affiliation

Zurmang Monastery

Teachers

Karmapa, 7th · Goshir Gyaltsab, 1st · Tai Situpa, 3rd

Students

Karmapa, 8th · Goshir Gyaltsab, 3rd

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Links

BDRC Link (P2GS231)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P2GS231

Wiki Pages

• Bdud mo bkra shis 'od zer on the DRL
• Bdud mo bkra shis 'od zer on the LIB
• Bdud mo bkra shis 'od zer on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

Tashi Özer received his name while still a child from the Seventh Karmapa along with some meditation instructions on the six syllable mantra. He later took novice ordination with the First Goshir Gyaltsab. However is early education occurred within the Geluk and Sakya traditions. He encountered the Seventh Karmapa again when he was a young man and received a wide range of instructions from him, which he was said to have thoroughly mastered and experienced numerous visions of buddhas while in extended retreat. He went on to become a prominent teacher of the Kagyu tradition, especially at Zurmang Monastery. His students included some of the most important Kagyu hierarchs of the day, including the Eighth Karmapa and the Third Goshir Gyaltsab.

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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.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.