Tsangpa Gyare

Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje (1161–1211) was the founder of the Drukpa school of Tibetan Buddhism and the first Gyalwang Drukpa, a succession of reincarnate leaders of the Drukpa Lineage. Traditionaly the hagiographies of such individuals include not only physical activities, but also mystical experiences - as, in the mindset of many followers the tradition, there is no difference between the two.

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The 1st Gyalwang Drukpa

Drogon Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje was born in Tsang province of Tibet near Khule in 1161 from the union of his father, Zurpo Tsabpey and his mother Marza Darkyi. He was born with his birth membrane intact, causing his parents to abandon him through fear. Whilst a giant eagle protected the vulnerable child with his wings, the new born kicked through the membrane leaving a footmark on the nearby rock.Fact|date=August 2008

Guru Padmasambhava, who saw into the past, present and future without difference Fact|date=August 2008 noted his coming in a terma discovered by Guru Chokyi Wangchuk :

"At the conjoining of three valleys"
"Which one calls Khule Sarel – the Fissure in the Earth –"
"An emanation of the Holder of the Jewel will manifest"
"From the summit of the large rock resembling a cube,"
"He will embark upon the teaching of the Dharma"Citequote|date=August 2008

In another terma revealed by Terton Ratna Lingpa and Terton Padma Lingpa on different occasions:

"In Druk and in Ralung"
"Tsangpa Gyare will perform"
"The magic dance of emanation"
"Of Great Pandit Naropa."Citequote|date=August 2008

When the famous disciple of Milarepa, Rechungpa received the teaching of Naropa’s "Six Points of Equal Taste" from the Indian master Tipupa Sangag Dongpo, the master prophesised that Tsangpa Gyare would re-discover the text of the teachings.

As a young man, Tsangpa Gyare was a practitioner who studied the Sutra canon of the time, including Logic, The Way of the Bodhisattva, Metaphysics, the Transcendent Perfection of Great Wisdom and the Middle Path.

He met his Guru Lingchen Repa when he was 23.

References

*"The Wand That Opens the Eyes and Dispels the Darkness of the Mind," compiled by Lama Nawang Tenzin and produced by [http://dttl.club.fr/dttl/index.html Pel Drukpay Tcheutsok] for the occasion of His Holiness the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa wearing the ornaments of Naropa in Shey, Ladakh July 2004.

External links

* [http://tbrc.org/link?RID=P909 TBRC P909]

* Page on [http://www.drukpa.org/lineage/gdrukpa/01drukpa.htm Tsangpa Gyare] on His Holiness the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa's website.
* Page on [http://drukpa.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Tsangpa_Gyare Tsangpa Gyare] at wiki.drukpa.com