Within the Drukpa Lineage, there are further sub-schools, most notably the eastern Kham tradition and middle Drukpa school which prospered in Also important in the lineage were the root guru of Tsangpa Gyare, Ling Repa and his guru, A prominent disciple of Tsangpa Gyare's nephew, Onre Darma Sengye, was The outstanding disciples of Tsangpa Gyare Yeshi Dorje (1161–1211), the first Gyalwa Lorepa, Gyalwa Gotsangpa and his disciple Gyalwa Yang Gonpa, are known as Gyalwa Namsum or the Three Victorious Ones in recognition of their spiritual realization.
As part of this initiative, the Gyalwang Drukpa led the Live to Love volunteers to break the Guinness World Record twice for most trees planted simultaneously. The lineage that began with Dusum Khyenpa is known as the Karma Kagyu lineage. The first in October 2010, 9,313 volunteers planted 50,033 trees within half an hour, breaking their first Guinness World Records for the "Most Trees Planted" category. The Drukpa Kagyu lineage, which was founded in the twelfth century by the first Gyalwang Drukpa Tsangpa Gyare, was renowned for its highly accomplished yogis and yoginis. In October 2012, they broke again the Guinness World Records for the same category, with over 9,800 volunteers planted nearly 100,000 trees, safeguarding villages from mudslides and cleaning polluted air.The Drukpa Lineage under the guidance of its spiritual masters, in particular the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa,In March 2008, the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa, declared his preference that:
"A popular compassion meditation in Tibetan Buddhism is A meditation routine may involve alternating sessions of vipaśyanā to achieve deeper levels of realization, and samatha to consolidate them.The most widespread preliminary practices include: taking The merit acquired in the preliminary practices facilitates progress in Vajrayāna. • LINEAGES: Mindroling, Palyul, Dorje Trak, Shechen, … Samuel sees the character of Tibetan Buddhism in the West as...that of a national or international network, generally centred around the teachings of a single individual lama. The acknowledgement of the transmission can be oral, or certified in documents. ... Ironically these attempts to uproot Tibetan Buddhism forced it into the world at large and it … Tibetan Buddhist missionaries also helped spread the religion in Mongolia.
Marpa's most famous student was the greatest He was particularly interested in the Madhyamika teachings of Nagarjuna.Through most of his adult life Tsongkhapa traveled around Tibet, often living in camps with dozens of students. Not unlike the other traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, a number of sub traditions gradually emerged within the main Sakya tradition. Namchak Khenpo, Rinpoche’s brother and his Dharma Heir, spends most of his time in Montana, and will be our resident Vajra Master at the Retreat Ranch.
A lineage in Buddhism is a line of transmission of the Buddhist teaching that is "theoretically traced back to the Buddha himself."
“Karma” in the name of the lineage comes from Karmapa. The Dalai Lama’s government at Dharamsala has also continued under difficult circumstances to argue for a negotiated settlement rather than armed struggle with China. The Karma Kagyu school is the largest of the Kagyu sub-schools and is headed by the Tibetan Buddhism exerted a strong influence from the 11th century CE among the peoples of With the decline of the Yuan dynasty and the loose administration of the following (Han-Chinese) In 1565, the Rinpungpa family was overthrown by the In China, Tibetan Buddhism continued to be patronized by the elites of the Ming Dynasty. Today she works to share the teachings of the Namchak tradition, making its time-tested meditation practices accessible to westerners. The four main traditions overlap markedly, such that "about eighty percent or more of the features of the Tibetan schools are the same".The four major schools are sometimes divided into the Another common but trivial differentiation is into the Yellow Hat (Gelug) and The features of each major school (along with one influential minor school, Jonang) is as follows:"The Ancient Ones" is the oldest school of Tibetan Buddhism and the original order founded by Kagyu means "oral transmission" and consists of a series of lineages which all trace themselves back to Indian The Dagpo Kagyu, encompasses those Kagyu schools that trace back to the Indian master The "Grey Earth" school represents one of the first The "Way of Virtue" school was originally a reformist movement and is known for its emphasis on logic and debate. Based on the lineage and the last two figures one of which is Khedrubje Geleg Palzang [1385-1438], it is reasonable to assume that the painting was created at some point after his passing before the lineage became longer with the addition of later lineage teachers. Senior figures from the three non-Gelukpa Buddhist schools and from the Bonpo have been included in the religious administration, and relations between the different lamas and schools are now on the whole very positive. In April 2009, the first of a yearly event known as the Annual Drukpa Council (ADC) In July 2007, when the lineage celebrated its 800-plus-years' legacy in In 2010, the Gyalwang Drukpa launched an initiative to plant one million trees in Ladakh, as part of the ‘one million trees’ campaign initiated by Wangari Maathaï, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. I hope and pray that as holders of the Dragon Order, all of my colleagues would be mindful of their activities and their efforts. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.