Khyungpo Naljor
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མཁས་གྲུབ་ཁྱུང་པོ་རྣལ་འབྱོར | |
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| Born | c. 1050 Eastern Tsang, Tibet |
| Died | c. 1140 |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| Sect | Vajrayana |
| Founder of | Shangpa Kagyu school |
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Khedrub Khyungpo Naljor (Tibetan: མཁས་གྲུབ་ཁྱུང་པོ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་, Wylie: mkhas grub khyung po rnal 'byor) (c. 1050 ~ c. 1140) was the founder of the Shangpa Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism[1][2], one of the eight main practice lineages of Vajrayana teachings in Tibet.
Biography[edit]
Early Life[edit]
Khedrub ('learned and accomplished') Khyungpo Naljor was born around the middle of the eleventh century into a family of the Kyungpo clan at Nyemo Ramang (snye mo ra mangs), in the Eastern part of the Tsang province of Tibet.
Khyungpo Naljor's family were adherents of the Bön religion and during his youth first learned the teachings of that tradition under Yungdrung Gyalwa (g.yung drung rgyal ba). Later he turned to studying and practicing the three sections of Dzogchen teachings ( Longde, Semde and Menngagde) of the Nyingma tradition with the teacher Jungne Senge ('byung gnas seng ge).
Pawo Tsuglag Threngwa(1504–1566), in his history of Buddhism in India and its diffusion in Tibet, A Scholar's Feast, writes that Khyungpo Naljor then met the teacher Kor Nirupa, from whom he received the pith-instructions of the Amanasai cycle.[3]
Travels to Nepal and India[edit]
Not satisfied with the teachings he could obtain in Tibet, he traveled south to Nepal where studied Sanskrit with the teacher Sumati. in India from the two Dakinis Niguma ( Naropa's companion ) and Sukhasiddhi (the student of Master Virupa ) as well as from the Gurus Mahāvajrāsana , Maitrīpa , Guptayoga, Rāhula and others he studied the Buddhist traditions then current in India, particularly those of the Vajrayana and Mahamudra.. In total he is said to have learned from no fewer than a hundred and fifty teachers.
Later Life[edit]
In the last years of 11th Century or beginning of the 12th Century Khyungpo Naljor founded the monastery of Zhang-zhong in the Shangs valley of southern Tibet - along with over 100 other religious centers (probably mostly small hermitages) nearby. The tradition of his teachings became known as the Shangspa Kagyu as it was first established in this place.[4]
Although he is said to have gathered
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Sources[edit]
- Thuken 03, Losang Chökyi Nyima (2009). Jackson, Roger R., ed. The crystal mirror of philosophical systems: A Tibetan study of Asian religious thought. The Library of Tibetan Classics. Translated by Sopa, Lhundub. Boston: Wisdom Publications. pp. 118–120. ISBN 0861714644. Search this book on
- Kapstein, Matthew T. (October 2005). "Chronological Conundrums in the Life of Khyung po rnal 'byor: Hagiography and Historical Time". Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies. 1: 1–14. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
- Kapstein, Matthew T. (1980). "The Shangs-pa bKa'-brgyud: an unknown school of Tibetan Buddhism". In Aris, Michael; Suu Kyi, Aung San. Studies in Honor of Hugh Richardson. Warminster: Aris and Phillips. pp. 138–144. ISBN 0856681903. Search this book on
- The Blue Annals. Translated by Roerich, George N. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 1976. pp. 728–733. LCCN 79272172. Unknown parameter
|orig-date=ignored (help) Search this book on - dpa' bo, gtsug lag phreng ba (2006). chos 'byung mkhas pa'i dga' ston [A feast for Scholars] (in བོད་ཡིག). Beijing: mi rigs dpe skrun khang. pp. 700–706. ISBN 7105074213. Unknown parameter
|orig-date=ignored (help) Search this book on - Smith, E. Gene (2001). "The Shangs pa Bka' brgyud Tradition". In Schaeffer, Kurtis R. Among Tibetan Texts: History and Literature of the Tibetan Plateau. Somerville MA: Wisdom Publications. pp. 53–57. ISBN 0861711793. Search this book on
External links[edit]
- treasuryoflives.org: Khyungpo Naljor
- himalayanart.org: Teacher: Kyungpo Naljor
- Buddhist Digital Resource Center:khyung po rnal 'byor
- Rangjung Yeshe Wiki:Khyungpo Naljor
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