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'''Pagdru Kagyü''' or '''Phagmo Drupa''' (Tib. ཕག་མོ་གྲུ་པ་, Wyl. ''phag mo gru pa'') — one of the four major schools of the [[Dakpo Kagyü]] founded by [[Phagmodrupa Dorje Gyalpo]] (1110-1170) in the twelfth century. The school later splintered into eight sub-schools, founded by Phagmodrupa's eight main disciples. Today, only three of these sub-schools are alive or remain as separate schools: the [[Drikung Kagyü]], [[Drukpa Kagyü]] and [[Taklung Kagyü]] schools. The Pagdru Kagyü school ruled over Tibet during the fourteenth century and part of the fifteenth century. 

==Subdivisions==
{{:Eight Pagdru Kagyü Sub-schools}}
 
==Further Reading==
*E. Gene Smith, 'Golden Rosaries of the Bka' brgyud Schools' in ''Among Tibetan Texts'', (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001)
*[[Ringu Tulku]], ''The Ri-me Philosophy of Jamgön Kongtrul the Great'' (Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, 2007), pages 140-143.

[[Category: Schools and Lineages]]
[[Category: Kagyü]]