Dechen Chökor Yongdzin, 4th

Dechen Chökor Yongdzin, 4th on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors

འཇམ་དཔལ་དཔའ་བོ་

Wylie	'jam dpal dpa' bo
English Phonetics	Fourth Dechen Chökor Yongdzin Jampal Pawo

Other names

• ཡེ་ཤེས་སྣང་བའི་གཏེར་
• འཇམ་དཔལ་དགའ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་

• ye shes snang ba'i gter
• 'jam dpal dga' ba'i bshes gnyen

Dates

Birth:	1720
Death:	1780

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

Drukpa Kagyu

Primary Professional Affiliation

bde chen chos 'khor

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link (P843)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P843

Wiki Pages

• Dechen Chökor Yongdzin, 4th on the DRL
• Dechen Chökor Yongdzin, 4th on the LIB

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.

Three successive stages of the Buddhist teachings. Though they are traditionally attributed to the historical Buddha, modern scholarship tends to view them as developmental stages that occurred over the course of an extended period of time, with interludes of several centuries, in which we see major doctrinal shifts often based on seemingly newly emergent scriptural sources.