Ngog-Kagyu

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : རྔོག་ བཀའ་ བརྒྱུད་ པ་
Wylie transliteration : rNgog bKa'-brgyud

The Ngog Kagyu ( Tib. Rngog bka 'brgyud ) - or Ngog School ( rngog pa ) is the Marpa -Students Ngog Chöku Dorje ( rngog chos sku rdo rje ; 1036-1106) declining lineage in Tibetan Buddhism, which from Marpa-Kagyu , and existed independently for several hundred years. The Hevajra tantra played an important role in it.

The Ngog branch was an independent line of the Kagyu school direction, which was transferred by the students to at least the 2nd Drugchen Gyelwang Künga Peljor ( rgyal dbang kun dga 'dpal' byor ; 1428-1476) who received this transfer, and 1476 when Go Lotsawa completed the Blue Annals .

The 1st Karmapa Düsum Khyenpa ( karma pa dus gsum mkhyen pa ; 1110–1193) had the tradition of the exegesis of the Hevajra tantra from Kyangmo Pangkhawa ( rkyang mo spang kha ba ), a disciple of Metön Tshonpo ( mes ston tshon po ), one of the "four pillars".

literature

• George Nicholas Roerich : The Blue Annals . 2 volumes. 2nd Edition. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi 1996, ISBN 81-208-0471-6 .
• Mei Ching Hsuan 梅靜軒: The Development of 'Pho ba Liturgy in Medieval Tibet . Bonn 2009 (Diss.) ( PDF )
• Bibhuti Baruah: Buddhist sects and sectarianism . 2008

Web links

• La transmission of the tantra kagyupa . hridayartha.blogspot.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Roerich (1976: 403-404, 407).
2. ^ Marpa Kagyu . treasuryoflives.org
3. ↑ Marpa's four outstanding students, known as the "Four Pillars" ( Tib. Ka chen bzhi ; Chin. Si zhu 四柱; English. Four Great Pillars) were:
   • Ngog Chöku Dorje ( rngog chos sku rdo rje ; 1036–1102) - south
   • Tshurtön Wanggi Dorje ( mtshur ston dbang gi rdo rje) - east
   • Metön Tshonpo ( mes ston tshon po ) - west
   • Milarepa ( mi la ras pa ; 1040–1123) - north

Ngog-Kagyu (alternative names of the lemma)
Ngogpa-Kagyu (rngog bka 'brgyud); rngog bka 'brgyud pa rNgog- pa bKa'-brgyud; rNgog-pa bKa'-brgyud pa; Ngok-Kagyu; Ngokpa-Kagyu; Eba Gaju 俄 巴 噶 举; E Gaju 俄 噶 举; E pai 俄 派; rngog pa; Ngogpa; Ngog school