Zurchung Sherab Drakpa

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Zurchung Sherab Drakpa

Zurchung Sherab Drakpa (Tib. ཟུར་ཆུང་ཤེས་རབ་གྲགས་པ་, Wyl. zur chung shes rab grags pa) (1014-1074) was an important Nyingma master of the influential Zur family. His main teacher was Zurchen Shakya Jungné.

Disciples

The four great pillars (ཀ་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི་, ka ba chen po bzhi) or four main students of Zurchung Sherab Drakpa are:

  1. Kyoton Shakye of Kungbu
  2. Yangkeng Lama of Kyonglung
  3. Len Shakya Zangpo of Chuwar
  4. Datik Choshak of Nakmori

Further Reading

  • Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Zurchungpa's Testament: A Commentary On Zurchung Sherab Trakpa's Eighty Chapters Of Personal Advice (Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 2007)

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