Difference between revisions of "Gyalwang Drukpa Rinpoche"

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===སྐུ་ཕྲེང་།  The Successive Incarnations===
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===<span class=TibUni14>སྐུ་ཕྲེང་།</span> The Successive Incarnations===
 
*[[Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje|1st Gyalwang Drukpa]], [[gtsang pa rgya ras ye shes rdo rje]] (1161-1211)<br>
 
*[[Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje|1st Gyalwang Drukpa]], [[gtsang pa rgya ras ye shes rdo rje]] (1161-1211)<br>
 
*[[Drukchen II, Gyalwang Kunga Paljor|2nd Gyalwang Drukpa]], [[gyal ba kun dga' dpal 'byor]] (1428-1476)<br>
 
*[[Drukchen II, Gyalwang Kunga Paljor|2nd Gyalwang Drukpa]], [[gyal ba kun dga' dpal 'byor]] (1428-1476)<br>
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*[[Drukpa Kagyu]]<br>
 
*[[Middle Drukpa]]<br>
 
*[[Middle Drukpa]]<br>
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===Alternate Names & Spellings===
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===Internal Links===
 
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Revision as of 14:45, 30 July 2008

Gyalwang Drukpa Rinpoche, the head lama of the Drukpa Kagyu tradition. Also known as the Gyalwang Drukchen and Druk Tamche Khyenpa "All-knowing Drukpa" ('brug thams cad mkhyen pa ) the sucessive Gyalwang Drukpa are considered to be incarnations of Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje(1161-1211) founder of the Drukpa Kagyu school and one of the main disciples of Lingje Repa Pema Dorje.


Followers of the Drukpa Kagyu school consider Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje to have been an emanation of Avalokiteshvara and incarnation of Naropa. This also applies to the subsequent Gyalwang Drukchen incarnations.


སྐུ་ཕྲེང་། The Successive Incarnations[edit]

There were two immediate incarnations of the 4th Gyalwang Drukpa, Kunkhyen Pema Karpo (1527-1592) - each recognized by a different group of followers: Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal (1594-1651) and Pagsam Wangpo, (1593-1653). Pagsam Wangpo was favoured by the powerful Tsang ruler Phuntsog Namgyal (1597-1621) and eventually recognised as the official incarnation in Tibet. Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal went to Bhutan and established his lineage there.

Main Lineages[edit]

Alternate Names & Spellings[edit]

Internal Links[edit]

External Links[edit]

The Gyalwang Drukpa's Website