Drugpa Künleg

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Drugpa Künleg (འབྲུག་ པ་ ཀན་ ལེགས་; tib . : 'brug pa kun legs ; also: Künga Legpa, tib .: kun dga' legs pa ; * 1455 in Ralung monastery , Lhasa ; † 1529 (Lexicon of the eastern Wisdom: * 1455 ; † 1570 )) was a master of mahamudra of the Drugpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism . He is considered to be an early liberator of sexuality .

Traditions about the life of Drugpa Künleg

Drugpa Künleg's father was murdered. In 1458 he shamed scribes as a toddler because he could read fluently. He became a novice in a monastery. In 1500, Drugpa Künleg's mother asked him to find a wife. At a market he found a toothless 100-year-old whom he introduced to his mother as his future wife. As a result, his mother preferred to take on the duties of a daughter-in-law herself. Drugpa Künleg demanded cohabitation from his mother , with whose consent he got out of bed and announced on the market:

Hear you people! Anyone can seduce their mother if they want.

Drugpa Künleg then wandered through Bhutan . In Lhasa he met farmers, nomads, traders, pilgrims, lamas , Newaris , Ladakhis , Indians, Tibetans, Chinese, Mongols and Näldschorpas. If Drugpa Künleg was given jewelry as a gift, he would give the gift back to its giver. He claimed to have been to Hell , but his way there was crammed with monks from Sera Monastery . He also believed in reincarnating as an animal if he fell asleep in a ceremony . He did not stop intestinal winds , but waved them past monk noses to check whether they were good Buddhists. He signaled baby cries as a father's penetration into the mother.

He frequented the ditch three times with the underage nun Tsewang Pälzom . Host parents always offered Drugpa Künleg their daughter. He explained his love for Dschang ( rice - grain - beer ) with the fact that he used to be a bee , he justified his laziness with the fact that he used to be a pig , and he explained his lack of manners by saying that he used to be a He explained his lack of shame by being crazy in the past.

Drugpa Künleg only enjoyed ox and goat meat if he could give life back to the eaten animal.

In Pälnashog he met the old man Sundar , who had made a scroll painting Drugpas, but who lacked the golden border. Drukpa Kunley urinated unceremoniously on the image and the Lama - urine was the gold rim.

He survived attacks on Drugpa by poisoning and arrows. The fact that he knotted a spear made him famous in the country. He rammed his penis , the flaming thunderbolt of wisdom , into the mouth of a demon from Wodö . The demon lost eight teeth and converted to Buddhism .

By the time he was 115, Künleg is said to have had sexual intercourse with 5,000 women.

Drugpa Künleg has passed down his correspondence with the death god Yama.

Anecdotes from Drugpa Künleg

As a “holy fool” ( smyon ), he has found its way into oral narrative literature in Tibet and the Himalayas , especially Bhutan . In these stories by Drugpa Künleg he gives people - in the spirit of a wise yogi - teachings through unconventional behavior. In the process, desires and other feelings, which Buddhism calls basic evil, are often uncovered.

As with Uncle Tönpa , some of the content is sexual, but not to the same extent. In addition, there are longer narratives and shorter, mostly funny stories, the joke of which is sometimes not immediately clear to the European listener. Anyone familiar with political and social history will, however, often discover more or less open social criticism in it.

Teaching of the Drugpa Künleg

Drugpa Künleg lived as a free yogi in Tibet. Outwardly he lived for pleasure and inwardly according to a clear spiritual system. Outwardly he was cheerful, loved beer and women. Inwardly he works for the benefit of all beings. Outwardly he seemed excessive, but inside he did everything at the right moment. Outwardly he was a ragged beggar and inwardly a blissful Buddha in eternal light. He combined spirituality and joie de vivre.

Drugpa Künleg established the doctrine of the three pleasures:

A young woman finds pleasure in love.

A young man finds pleasure in sex .

An old man takes pleasure in his memories.

Those who do not know the truth are confused. Those who have no goals make no sacrifices. He who has no courage will not become a yogi. That is the doctrine of the three missing things. Even if a person knows the way of wisdom without practicing, there is no realization. Even if a master shows you the way, you have to walk him yourself.

His saying is also remarkable: I read the books of all spiritual directions and practice everything at the right moment. Life is my teacher and my inner wisdom, my guide . This shows that he has read many religious books, but anchored himself in his own truth and thus found his way of spiritual self-realization.

Works

  • The wondrous life of a mad saint (竹 巴 衮 烈 传记), 'Brug pa kun legs

literature

  • Keith Dowman: The Holy Fool - The Dissolute Life and Blasphemous Chants of the Tantric Master Drugpa Künleg . Barth, Frankfurt a. M. 2005, ISBN 978-3-502-61159-2 .
  • Georg Feuerstein : Holy fools . Wolfgang Krüger, Frankfurt a. M. 1996, ISBN 3-8105-0632-X , pp. 90-97 .
  • Yonten Dargey: History of the Drukpa Kagyud School in Bhutan . Thimphu 2001, ISBN 99936-616-0-0 , pp. 91-110 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the biography of the yogi of the Drugpa line cf. the English page Drukpa Kunley
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ulrich Holbein: Narratorium. 255 images of life. Ammann Verlag , Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-250-10523-7 . P. 448 f.
  3. ↑ a b Dowman, Ehrhard (trans.): The holy fool. Frankfurt a. M. 2005
personal data
SURNAME Drugpa Künleg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Künga Legpa; 'brug pa kun legs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Master of Mahamudra of the Drugpa Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism
DATE OF BIRTH 1455
DATE OF DEATH 1529