phag mo gru pa rdo rje rgyal po
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A Tibetan scholar and adept who is counted as one of the great disciples of the key Bka’ brgyud founder Sgam po pa Bsod nams rinchen, and is venerated as the source for many subsequent Bka’ brgyud lineages. Born in the ’Bri lung rme shod region of eastern Tibet, Phag mo gru pa’s parents died while he was still young. Receiving ordination as a novice Buddhist monk at the age of eight, he studied under a variety of teachers during the early part of his life. At eighteen, he traveled to central Tibet, receiving full ordination at the age of twenty-five. There he trained under a number of Bka’ gdams pa teachers, and later, under the great Sa skya master Sa chen Kun dga snying po, from whom he received extensive instruction in the tradition of the path and its result (lam ’bras). At the age of forty, he traveled to Dwags lha sgam po in Southern Tibet, where he met Sgam po pa, who became his principal guru. Sgam po pa famously held up a half-eaten ball of parched barley flour mixed with tea and said to Phag mo gru pa, “This is greater than the results of all your previous meditation.” After he demonstrated his humility by carrying stones to build a stūpa, Sgam po pa gave Phag mo gru pa the transmission of instructions on mahāmudrā meditation and, through their practice, is said to have attained great realization. In 1158, Phag mo gru pa established a simple meditation hut where he lived until his death in 1170; this location later served as the foundation for the influential monastery of Gdan sa mthil. Phag mo gru pa was renowned for his strict adherence to the vinaya, even going on alms rounds, a rare practice in Tibet. Several individuals among his many followers established a number of important branch lineages, the so-called “eight minor Bka’ brgyud subsects” that collectively came to be known as the Phag gru Bka’ brgyud. (Source: "Phag mo gru pa Rdo rje rgyal po." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 639. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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| Text | People | Deity/Cycle/Genre | Total pages | Folios |
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| རྗེ་བཙུན་ཕག་མོ་གྲུ་པ་ལ་བསྟོད་པ་ངེས་དོན་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་རྦ་རླབས། (ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 2, 715-719.) |
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros Associated ppl: phag mo gru pa rdo rje rgyal po |
Genre: Verses of Praise - bstod pa | 5 | 1a1 - 3a3 |
| རྗེ་ཕག་མོ་གྲུ་པ་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས་པ་བྱིན་རླབས་རོལ་མཚོ། (ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 3, 207-210.) |
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros Associated ppl: phag mo gru pa rdo rje rgyal po |
Genre: Supplications - gsol 'debs | 4 | 1a1 - 2b6 |
