Wylie:Zab mo bdud kyi gcod yul gyi khrid yig
The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284–1339), had a special connection with the Severance teachings and was instrumental in codifying them and bringing them into the Karma Kagyu lineage by connecting them with the mahāmudrā. He received the complete teaching cycles of Dampa Sangye at the age of eighteen (Red Annals) and Machik Lapdrön’s Severance teachings from Lama Kunga Döndrup (Kun dga’ don grub). However, in most Severance lineages and in the colophon here, he received the transmission from Lama Namtsowa (“Guru of Sky Lake”), one of his teachers at Tsurpu Monastery, whose full name was Namtso Dopa Mikyö Dorje (gNam mtsho do pa Mi bskyod rdo rje);[1] he was also known as Repa Sangye Nyima (Ras pa Sangs rgyas nyi ma). He heard many Severance teachings from Khambuyale’s disciple Jñānajvala. Thus he is only the third in the lineage after Machik herself. Most of Rangjung Dorje’s works on Severance are found in volume 11 of his collected works, with only two included here in The Treasury of Precious Instructions.
- Translator's notes
- Note from Ringu Tulku
- The Instructions on the Profound "Cutting Through the Maras" (Chod Practice).
- Notes on individuals related to text
- Associated people: (in the order given in the colophon, Volume 15, p. 184, 6b1)
- Other notes
- Genre from Richard Barron's Catalog
- Instruction manual
- Genre from dkar chag
- yan lag gi chos
- BDRC Link
- VolumeI1CZ3976
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