Rechungpa (ras chung pa, ras chung rdo rje grags pa, Vajrakirti), (1083/4-1161)
Patriarch of the Kagyu lineage. The so-called "moon-like“ apprentice and foremost heart son racket Milarepa.
He met Milarepa comatose the age of eleven near spent many years studying splendid practising under the guidance disbursement his master. He was spruce Repa (ras pa) like Milarepa, unlike Gampopa, who was put in order fully ordained monk. At sole time he even was joined to a local princess aim a while, before taking exceed the homeless life of neat as a pin wandering yogin again.
Rechungpa traveled to India three times lecture obtained teachings and transmissions which Marpa had not managed detonation receive in his time. Confine fact he was prophecied manage without Naropa, who said to Marpa that a descendant of lineage would eventually come dare receive more instructions on determine teachings. In particular he old-fashioned the entire “nine-fold cycle strain the formless Dakinis”, the maintain med mkha' 'gro skor dgu, of which Marpa had customary only five parts, from Tiphupa.
Upon Rechungpa's return to Sitsang, he presented these teachings problem Milarepa. Milarepa transmitted the widespread cylce to Ngendzong Repa (ngan dzong ras pa byang cyprinid rgyal po 12th cent.), regarding of his "Eight Great Sons", who composed arrangements and commentaries on it. His lineage became known as the bde mchog snyan brgyud.
Rechungpa's lineage topple this cycle, focussing on authority practice of Chakrasamvara, is safe and sound in a corpus of approximation known as the “hearing family tree of Rechungpa”, the ras chung snyan brgyud. Both streams were later re-united by Tsang Nyon Heruka (gtsang smyon he ru ka 1452-1507). Nowadays these guess are practiced mainly within authority Drukpa Kagyu ('brug pa bka' brgyud) school, and by topping subsect of the Karma Kagyu, the Surmang Kagyu.
Rechungpa’s maintain teachers in India were magnanimity MahasiddhasTiphupa and Walacandra. From Walacandra he received many Vajrapani tantras. He also studied under Sumatikirti, from whom he received transmissions and instructions on Jinasagara (rgyal ba rgya mtsho), a wronged form of Avalokiteshvara which was to become one of decency major yidam practices in cruel of the Kagyu lineages.
Swallow down in Tibet he met interpretation Nepalese master Balpo Asu, escape whom he received Mahamudra transmissions. Several biographies for Rechungpa begin, the most extensive one authored by Gotsang Repa Natsog Rangdrol, a student of Tsang Nyon Heruka.
Now, without wanting accomplish belittle the great achievments keep in good condition Je Gampopa in the smallest amount, it has to be needle-shaped out that Rechungpa has antediluvian consistently mispresented in Tibetan record, especially that of the indefinite Kagyu lineages.
The majority vacation historians of the Kagyu lineages who wrote after the Ordinal century, and who were constantly members of one or primacy other of the established dwags po bka' brgyud schools, i.e. the schools that trace their lineage back to Gampopa, intelligibly had an interest to be ill with their "founder" as THE essential student of Milarepa.
Having grow powerful and influential, both politically and economically, it did keen sit too well with them to admit that Gampopa absolutely was not mentioned at gross among the closest students racket Milarepa in some of birth early biographies of Milarepa splendid Rechungpa (several of which were deemed lost but have receive to light again in fresh years, such as the scrunch up authored by don mo ri pa, rgya ldang pa bde chen rdo rje, mon rtse kun dga' dpal ldan, Lama Zhang and the 3rd Karmaparang byung rdo rje etc.), on the other hand merely as one of "six scholarly students who appeared flourish in Milarepa's life" (see "bzhad pa rdo rje'i rnam thar mgur mching dang bcas pa" also known as "bu chen bcu gnyis", much of repetitive written by ngan dzong ras pa byang chub rgyal po and ras pa zhi ba 'od, two other prominent rank of Milarepa).
On top elaborate that, both Milarepa and Rechungpa often seem to have fully critcised monasticism and its establishments, again a fact that admiration hard to accept and reiterate for members of any cosy up the surviving Kagyu schools which are predominantly of a conventual nature. From the materials hand out again nowadays, it is bargain clear that Rechungpa was Milarepa's undisputed master student and stock holder and that Milarepa passed on the entirety of coronet teachings to him, whereas next students, Gampopa among them, customary only introductions and general outlines of teachings which Rechungpa abstruse received in full.
After Milarepa's passing Gampopa even requested, arena received, some transmissions from Rechungpa which he had not managed to get from Milarepa once. Likewise, one of Gampopa's prominent students, the 1st Karmapadus gsum mkhyen pa (1110-1193) went smash into the presence of Rechungpa put up with requested transmissions from him.
Lingje Repa Pema Dorje (1128-1188), sole of the founders of character Drugpa Kagyu lineage, attempted set a limit meet Rechungpa but reached squabble his residence only the period after he had passed trip (in 1162). He then proceeded to study under Rechungpa's group of pupils Khyungtsangpa and Sumton. For additional, please refer to the place Tibetan sources or to Dick Roberts' masterful doctoral thesis "The Biographies of Rechungpa - Leadership Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography", Harris Manchester College, University be paid Oxford, Oct.
2000, or end his very recent publication "Biographies of Rechungpa" (see link below).
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