Yang dgon pa rgyal mtshan dpal

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Classical Tibetan Authors

ཡང་དགོན་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་དཔལ་

Wylie	yang dgon pa rgyal mtshan dpal
English Phonetics	Gyalwa Yang Gönpa Gyaltsen Pal

Alternate names

• Yangönpa Chökyi Gyalpo
• Yangön Chöjé

Dates

Birth:	1213
Death:	1258
Place of birth:	Lato (la stod) region of Tsang (gtsang)

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Drukpa Kagyu

Teachers

Bsod nams rgyal mtshan · Chennga Drakpa Jungne · Chung Dorje Drakpa · Rgod tshang pa mgon po rdo rje · Sa skya paN+Di ta · Bsod nams rgyal mtshan

Biographical Information

Gyalwa Yang Gönpa Gyaltsen Pal (Tib. ཡང་དགོན་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་དཔལ་, Wyl. yang dgon pa rgyal mtshan dpal) (1213-1258 or 1287) was a great yogin of the Drukpa Kagyü school and one of the foremost disciples of Gyalwa Götsangpa (1189-1258). He also studied with Godrakpa (1181-1261), who is considered the first great non-sectarian master of Tibet, Drikung Chenga Rinpoche (1175-1255) of the Drikung Kagyü school, Sakya Pandita (1182-1251), and Sangye Repa, and other masters. He is known as one of the 'three victorious ones', the other two being his teacher Gyalwa Götsangpa and Gyalwa Lorepa. (Source: Rigpawiki)

Links

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Yanggonpa-Gyeltsen-Pel/7775

Wiki Pages

• Yang dgon pa rgyal mtshan dpal on the DRL
• Yang dgon pa rgyal mtshan dpal 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.

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.