snyan rgyud

Three Cycles of Oral Transmission; they are the three main lineages of the Oral or Whispered Transmission of the Chakrasamvara teachings of the Kagyü Tradition. These teachings were originally brought from India by Rechung Dorje Dragpa (1084-1161) and presented to Milarepa (1040-1123). Milarepa then passed parts of them on to Ngamdzong Repa (11/12th cent.), and a short outline to Je Gampopa (1079-1153). The three are: 1) the Rechung Nyengyü (ras chung snyan brgyud), the Oral Transmission of Rechungpa, the most extensive form; 2) the Ngamdzong Nyengyü (ngam rdzong snyan brgyud), the Oral Transmission of Ngamdzong Repa, the medium-length form and; 3) the Dakpo Nyengyü (dvags po snyan brgyud), the Oral Transmission of Dakpo Lhaje or Gampopa, the condensed form. In the 15th cent. Tsang Nyön Heruka (1452-1507) combined the existing strands of the first two into the corpus of the Demchog Nyengyü (bde mchog snyan brgyud), the Oral or Whispered Transmission of Chakrasamvara, also sometimes synonymously called the Khandro Nyengyü (mkha' 'gro snyan brgyud), or Oral Transmission of the Dakinis. Götsang Repa Natsog Rangdrol (1482-1559), a close student of Tsang Nyön, and after him Drugchen Pema Karpo (1527-1592), later organised the material and brought it into the form in which it still exists today. Götsang Repa composed a one volume history of the various strands of Nyengyü transmissions. A further lineage exists in the Surmang monastery of the Trungpa Rinpoches in Nangchen, eastern Tibet. It is known as the Surmang Nyengyü (zur mang snyan brgyud), the Oral Transmission of Surmang (monastery). [TSD]

of the Kagyü tradition [RY]

Three Cycles of Oral Transmission, of the Kagyü tradition [RY]