Shangton Chobar was born in Dingri in Tsang in 1053. He and his younger brother received the Lamdré from Seton Kunrig. Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, the first Sakya patriarch requested the Lamdré transmission from Shangton Chobar. Further Reading: Biography of Zhangton Chobar by Alexander Gardner (Source: Treasury of Lives) […]
Seton Kunrig, also known as Sekar Chungwa, is a holder of the Lamdré lineage. […]
Khön Könchok Gyalpo is founded the Sakya Order and Sakya Monastery in 1073, and became the first Sakya throneholder. Drogmi Lotsāwa was his root teacher. […]
Lokkya Sherab Tseg was a lotsāwa, or translator. He appears to be the first native Tibetan in the Vajrayoginī lineage. […]
Nāropa transmitted this Vajrayoginī practice to two Nepalese disciples known as the Phamthing brothers. Their names were, on some accounts, Abhayakirti and Vagindrakirti—in Tibetan, Jigme Dragpa and Ngawang Dragpa. By the eleventh century, the Kathmandu Valley had become an important location for Dharma study and transmission, and it was home to several scholars and translators […]
Nāropa, sometimes also called Nārotapa, is the first of the great lineage lamas from whom this teaching descends. An accomplished scholar of the Vajrayāna at Vikramaśilā, he was a contemporary of Atiśa. Nāropa is counted by the Kagyu school as one of their founders. This Vajrayoginī teaching was not given to the Kagyu lineage, however, […]
Māhasiddha Gayādhara was a student of Māhasiddha Avadhutipa, a holder of the Lamdré lineage, and teacher of Drokmi Lotsāwa. […]
Lotsāwa Rinchen Sangpo, the most important translator during this new translation period of time. Through him, Lama Sakyapa received many, many teachings. Extracted from An Overview of the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism: History, Masters, and Teachings (2021) by His Holiness the Sakya Trichen; The Sakya Tradition Publications. […]
Mal Lotsāwa’s name is Lodrö Dragpa, the fourth of thirty-seven Vajrayoginī lineage holders. He gave an enormous number of teachings to Lama Sakyapa Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, such as the sādhanās of the deities Mahākāla and Cakrasaṃvara. *Extracted from An Overview of the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism: History, Masters, and Teachings (2021) by His Holiness […]
Bari Lotsāwa’s personal name is Rinchen Dragpa. “Bari” is his race. He travelled from Tibet through Nepal to India and stayed there for many years studying under the guidance of Indian masters. He received many teachings and collected them together in a book called the Collection of Sādhanā. He brought many teachings back to Tibet. […]
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