Ma gcig lab sgron

མ་གཅིག་ལབ་སྒྲོན་
Machik Labdrön (1055 - 1149) Born in: e'i gang ba (labs phyi)/ gye'i labs (khe'u gang) <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Female Wood Sheep, 1^st sexagenary cycle. <br>

 

Machik Labdron was a female Tibetan philosopher-adept who is best known for her articulation and codification of the philosophy and praxis of Chod. Chod is a practice grounded in the Prajñāpāramitāsūtra directed toward cutting through ego-clinging and erroneous patterns of thinking. It was adopted by various monastic and lay lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and it also has a Bon corollary.
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All Names

Main Wylie Name	ma gcig lab sgron	མ་གཅིག་ལབ་སྒྲོན
Other Names	ma gcig labs sgron ma cig lab sgron ma cig lab kyi sgron ma	མ་གཅིག་ལབས་སྒྲོན་ མ་ཅིག་ལབ་སྒྲོན་ མ་ཅིག་ལབ་ཀྱི་སྒྲོན་མ་

Relationships

Religious Affiliation	gcod
Is Emanation of
Has Following Emanations
Teachers	Grwa pa mngon shes Pha dam pa sangs rgyas bsod nams bla ma a ston
Students	rgyal ba don grub khu sgom chos kyi seng+ge

Links

BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P3312
Treasury of Lives	http://www.treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Machik-Labdron/5644
Himalayan Art Resources	https://www.himalayanart.org/items/57037