For more on this incarnation lineage see BDRC [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P10245 bsam sdings rdo rje phag mo sprul sku skye brgyud] and Treasury of Lives [https://treasuryoflives.org/incarnation/Dorje-Pakmo Dorje Pakmo] +
One of the group of students of Phadampa Sangye associated with his final visit to Tibet that are collectively known as the ''Four Gatekeeper Yogins'' (''sgo ba'i rnal 'byor bzhi''), each of which are associated with one of the cardinal directions. Dampa Charchen is associated with the eastern gate (''shar sgo''). +
One of the group of students of Phadampa Sangye associated with his final visit to Tibet that are collectively known as the ''Four Gatekeeper Yogins'' (''sgo ba'i rnal 'byor bzhi''), each of which are associated with one of the cardinal directions. Dampa Charchung is associated with the western gate (''nub sgo''). +
*Important hierarch of the karma kaM tshang tradition.
*Recognized as the embodiment of the 13th Karmapa by the 8th 'brug chen kun gzigs chos kyi snang ba and given the name theg mchog rdo rje.
*Introduced the 'cham of the gsang 'dus and phur pa sgrub chen during the month of sa ga zla ba at mtshur phu.
*His recognition was authenticated through the use of the golden urn.
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Important master of the karma kaM tshang tradition; founded a monastery at spungs ri moved to mtshur phu hor rgyal po gor be sent a golden letter inviting him to the palace or 'ur tu according to the bod kyi gal che'i lo rgyus: died at the age of 78. re'u mig gives his date of death as 1261. karma pakShis me sbrul (1257), lcags sprel (1260), lo 'di (1261) gsum la hor yul du grub rtags bstan. +
Important master of the karma kaM tshang tradition
*He is regarded as the first of the incarnation lamas in tibet, since he became widely recognized as the embodiment of karma pak+Si.
*He was installed first at karma dgon and then established at kam po gnas nang.
*He is famed for the building of the iron bridge over the sog chu.
*In 1331 he was invited to court by the yuan emperor and received by prince rat+na shrI.
*After the prince's demise, his elder brother brought him to sman rtse.
*According to the bod kyi gal che'i lo rgyus he died at 56. +
Important karma kaM tshang bka' brgyud hierarch.
He enjoyed the patronage of the rin spungs pa.
He was involved in various restoration projects: 'brong bi dgon rnying, the mtshur phu 'du khang chen mo.
Built the sgo rab brtan gtsug lag khang and the thar gling gtsug lag khang.
His gsung 'bum came to about 10 volumes.
Kongtrul mentions him in the Terton Gyatsa in relation to the pure vision of Karmapa, 6th. +
One of the greatest names in the karma kaM tshang tradition.
*1538 - Received teachings from dpa' bo 2 gtsug lag 'phreng ba.
*1538 - Took rab byung vows from mi bskyod rdo rje.
*1539 - Installed at yangs pa can.
*1542 - Final monastic ordination.
*1542 - Studies with stag lung mkhas mchog ngag dbang grags pa.
*1546 - Solitary retreat at tsA ri tra.
*1561 - Installs dbang phyug rdo rje at mtshur phu and confers teachings.
His gsung 'bum is about 8 volumes. ([https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1426 Source: BDRC]) +
One of the group of students of Phadampa Sangye associated with his final visit to Tibet that are collectively known as the ''Four Gatekeeper Yogins'' (''sgo ba'i rnal 'byor bzhi''), each of which are associated with one of the cardinal directions. Tukse Kunga, often referred to as Kunga the Bodhisattva (''byang chub sems dpa' kun dga'''), is associated with the northern gate (''byang sgo''). +
One of the group of students of Phadampa Sangye associated with his final visit to Tibet that are collectively known as the ''Four Gatekeeper Yogins'' (''sgo ba'i rnal 'byor bzhi''), each of which are associated with one of the cardinal directions. Vajra Krodha is associated with the southern gate (''lho sgo''). +
(bir wa pa), one of the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas of India, was born into a royal family one thousand and twenty years after Lord Buddha entered parinirvana. He took novice monk vows and entered the Nalanda monastery, of which he became abbot later. He perfected his disciples of study and meditation. However, after seventy years of one-pointed tantric practice he had not attained any siddhis of any kind, and actually negative events were happening in his life. He decided he had no connection with the tantric teachings, Vajrayana, and with this state of mind he threw his rosary into the toilet and stopped doing Deity Meditations.</br>
However, the same night Nairatmya manifested for him, and said:
:Noble son, do not act in this way. Pick up your rosary, clean it, and take up your practice again. I am the deity which whom you have a karmic connection to, and I will bestow my blessings upon you".
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The following evening Nairatmya appeared to him again in her own mandala of fifteen goddesses, and she bestowed upon him the four specific empowerments, and he reached the first bodhisattva bhumi level including the Path of Seeing. On the evening of the twenty-ninth day he became a bodhisattva of the sixth bhumi. The monastic community at Nalanda monastery knew that something strange happened, but they were dubious about the strange behavior of Virupa, and he left the monastery. [http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Virupa RYWIKI] +