Gtsang smyon he ru ka

གཙང་སྨྱོན་ཧེ་རུ་ཀ་
Tsangnyön Heruka (1452 - 1507)

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Perhaps best known today as the author and publisher of the famous biography and collected songs of Milarepa, Tsangnyon Heruka was also one of the most influential mad yogins of Tibet. He is famous for having renovated the Svayambhū Stūpa in the Kathmandu Valley, and for inspiring a whole school of textual production and printing, sometimes referred to as “the School of Tsangnyon.” Tsangnyon practiced and disseminated the core teachings of the Kagyu tradition: the Six Dharmas of Nāropa, Mahāmudrā, and the Aural Transmissions that had been transmitted by Milarepa’s closest disciples.
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Main Wylie Name	gtsang smyon he ru ka	གཙང་སྨྱོན་ཧེ་རུ་ཀ
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BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P442
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Tsangnyon-Heruka/6856
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