Godrag School

Tibetan name
Wylie transliteration : ko brag pa
Other spellings: Godragpa; Kodragpa; Kodrakpa; Godrakpa
Chinese name
Simplified : 果 扎 派; 郭 扎 派; 果 札 派
Pinyin : Guozha pai

The Godrag School ( T. ko brag pa ) is a school tradition founded by Godragpa Sönam Gyeltshen ( T. ko brag pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan ; * 1182 in Tingri (Dingri); † 1261 ) or Godragpa ( ko brag pa ) for short Tibetan Buddhism . It is an independent, smaller school of tantric Buddhism .

Godragpa was the founder of the Godrag Monastery on the upper Nyang River in Gyangzê , after which this tradition is named.

See also

• Godragpa Sonam Gyeltshen

literature

• Roerich : Blue Annals ( IX.1, Godragpa )
• Cyrus Stearns: The Hermit of Go Cliffs. Timeless Instructions from a Tibetan Mystic , Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2000 (English translation of the Collected Songs of Godrakpa )
• Zangzu da cidian . Lanzhou 2003
• Lake Yixi Duojie 拉科 • 益 西多杰 : Zangchuan Fojiao gaoseng zhuanlüe 藏 传 佛教 高僧传 略 ("Brief biographies of important monks of Tibetan Buddhism "), Qinghai renmin chubanshe 青海 人民出版社 2007 ( online book presentation )
• Sarat Chandra Das : Tibetan-English Dictionary

Web links

• tarthang.com: Guozhaba Suonan Jianzan ( Memento from February 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) - Chinese
• tibetanlineages.org: Vibhutichandra Kodragpa Sonam Gyaltsen b.1182? - d.1261?
• collab.itc.virginia.edu: Biography of Kodrakpa (English summary from the Blue Annals )
• rigpawiki.org: Godrakpa Sönam Gyaltsen
• zmxh.com: Guozhaba Suonan Jianzan - Guozha pai chuanshiren - Chinese

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chinese Guozhaba Suonan Jianzan 果 札巴 • 索南 坚赞, Kuozhaba Suolang Jiancan 廓 扎巴 • 索朗 坚 参 (among others)
2. ↑ Chinese Guozha si (郭 扎 寺 / 郭 扎 寺 / 果 扎 寺 etc.)
3. ↑ Chinese Nianchu He 年楚河

Godrag school (alternative names of the lemma)
Godrag school, Godrag school tradition: ko brag pa; Guozha pai 果 扎 派, 郭 扎 派, 果 札 派; Gaozha pai 高 扎 派; Kodrakpa; Godragpa; Kotragpa sect; Kuozha pai 廓 扎 派; Kodrag School; Godrakpa