Mgar dam pa chos sdings pa

Mgar dam pa chos sdings pa on the DRL

English Phonetics	Gar Dampa Chodingpa

Dates

Birth:	1180
Death:	1240
Place of birth:	Medor (me 'dor), Kham

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day	8
Month	2
Gender
Element	Iron
Animal	Mouse
Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Drigung Kagyu

Familial Relations

Pelgyi Tsemo (father); Gema Tar (mother)

Teachers

Sa skya paN+Di ta · 'bri gung skyob pa 'jig rten mgon po

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Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P813

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Gar-Dampa-Chodingpa/10824

Wiki Pages

• Mgar dam pa chos sdings pa on the DRL
• Mgar dam pa chos sdings pa on the LIB
• Mgar dam pa chos sdings pa on the BNW

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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.

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.