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Patriarch of the Kagyu lineage. The so-called "moon-like“ disciple and foremost heart son of Milarepa. He met Milarepa at the age of eleven and spent many years studying and practising under the guidance of his master. He was a Repa (ras pa) like Milarepa, unlike Gampopa, who was a fully ordained monk. At one time he even was married to a local princess for a while, before taking to the homeless life of a wandering yogin again. Rechungpa travelled to India three times and obtained teachings and transmissions which Marpa had not managed to receive in his time. In fact he was prophecied by Naropa, who said to Marpa that a descendant of his lineage would eventually come to receive more instructions on certain teachings.... (continue reading on RYWiki)
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Terton Gyatsa Information
| Name in Gyatsa (Tibetan) | རས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲགས་པ་ |
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| Name in Gyatsa (Wylie) | ras chung rdo rje grags pa |
| Page numbers | Rinchen Terdzö, Volume I, Text #6, Pages 699 to 699, folio 180a1 to 180a6 |
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