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[[Image:Rechungpa yak horn.jpg|frame|'''Rechungpa looking for Milarepa inside the Yak's Horn''' from a painting by [[Dugu Choegyal Rinpoche]]]] | [[Image:Rechungpa yak horn.jpg|frame|'''Rechungpa looking for Milarepa inside the Yak's Horn''' from a painting by [[Dugu Choegyal Rinpoche]]]] | ||
'''Rechung Dorje Drak''' (Tib. རས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲགས་, [[Wyl.]] ''ras chung rdo rje grags'') or '''Rechungpa''' (Tib. རས་ཆུང་པ་, Wyl. ''ras chung pa'') (1083/5-1161) was one of the main disciples of Jetsün [[Milarepa]]. In later biographies, he is mentioned as the second most important of Milarepa's students, the 'moon-like' disciple, with [[Gampopa]] being the foremost, and compared to the sun. Rechungpa, as his name suggests, was a cotton-clad [[yogin]], unlike Gampopa who was a monk. | '''Rechung Dorje Drak''' (Tib. རས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲགས་, [[Wyl.]] ''ras chung rdo rje grags'') or '''Rechungpa''' (Tib. རས་ཆུང་པ་, Wyl. ''ras chung pa'') (1083/5-1161) was one of the main disciples of Jetsün [[Milarepa]]. In later biographies, he is mentioned as the second most important of Milarepa's students, the 'moon-like' disciple, with [[Gampopa]] being the foremost, and compared to the sun. Rechungpa, as his name suggests, was a cotton-clad [[yogin]], unlike Gampopa who was a monk. | ||
Latest revision as of 10:20, 15 October 2011
Rechung Dorje Drak (Tib. རས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲགས་, Wyl. ras chung rdo rje grags) or Rechungpa (Tib. རས་ཆུང་པ་, Wyl. ras chung pa) (1083/5-1161) was one of the main disciples of Jetsün Milarepa. In later biographies, he is mentioned as the second most important of Milarepa's students, the 'moon-like' disciple, with Gampopa being the foremost, and compared to the sun. Rechungpa, as his name suggests, was a cotton-clad yogin, unlike Gampopa who was a monk.
Primary Students
- Sumpa aka Sumtön (Tib. སུམ་སྟོན་, Wyl. sum ston), Tsangpa Sumpa (Tib. གཙང་པ་སུམ་པ་, Wyl. gtsang pa sum pa) and Dampa Sumpa (Tib. དམ་པ་སུམ་པ་, Wyl. dam pa sum pa)
- Gyal-lo
- Yang-gön aka Tönpa Yangdak Pal
- Yeshe Lama (Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་བླ་མ་, Wyl. ye shes bla ma)
Writings
- White Rock Vajra Fortress
Further Reading
- Peter Alan Roberts, The Biographies of Rechungpa: The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography, Routledge, 2007
- Thrangu Rinpoche, Rechungpa: A Biography of Milarepa's Disciple, Namo Buddha Publications, 2002
