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གཙང་སྨྱོན་ཧེ་རུ་ཀ་
Tsangnyön Heruka(1452 - 1507)

Perhaps best known today as the author and publisher of the famous biography and collected songs of Milarepa, Tsangnyon Heruka was also one of the most influential mad yogins of Tibet. He is famous for having renovated the Svayambhū Stūpa in the Kathmandu Valley, and for inspiring a whole school of textual production and printing, sometimes referred to as “the School of Tsangnyon.” Tsangnyon practiced and disseminated the core teachings of the Kagyu tradition: the Six Dharmas of Nāropa, Mahāmudrā, and the Aural Transmissions that had been transmitted by Milarepa’s closest disciples.

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Text People Deity/Cycle/Genre Total pages Folios
བདེ་མཆོག་མཁའ་འགྲོ་སྙན་བརྒྱུད་ཚོགས་འཁོར་སྐབས་རྡོ་རྗེའི་གླུ་དང་གཏོར་འབུལ།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 7, 159-164.)
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
Deity: 'khor lo bde mchog
Cycle: bde mchog mkha' 'gro snyan brgyud
Genre: Invocation of Auspiciousness - bkra shis brjod paMending Rituals - bskang chogTorma-offering Rituals - gtor chogVajra Songs - rdo rje'i gluConfessions - bshags paFeast Offering - tshogs mchod - tshogs kyi 'khor lo
6 1a1 - 3b2
ཚོགས་འཁོར་སྐབས་རྡོ་རྗེའི་གླུ་དང་སྐོང་བཤགས་བཀྲ་ཤིས།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 7, 159-162.)
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
Deity: 'khor lo bde mchog
Cycle: bde mchog mkha' 'gro snyan brgyud
Genre: Confessions - bshags paMending Rituals - bskang chogFeast Offering - tshogs mchod - tshogs kyi 'khor loInvocation of Auspiciousness - bkra shis brjod paVajra Songs - rdo rje'i glu
4 1a1 - 2b1