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'''Rechungpa''' ([[Wyl.]] ''ras chung pa'') (1084-1161) was one of the main disciples of Jetsün [[Milarepa]]. In later biographies, he is mentioned as the second most important of Milarepa's students, the 'moon-like' disciple, with [[Gampopa]] being the foremost, and compared to the sun. Rechungpa, as his name suggests, was a cotton-clad [[yogin]], unlike Gampopa who was a monk.  
[[File:Rechungpa.png|thumb|Rechung Dorje Drak]]
[[Image:Rechungpa yak horn.jpg|frame|'''Rechungpa looking for Milarepa inside the Yak's Horn''' from a painting by [[Dugu Choegyal Rinpoche]]]]
'''Rechung Dorje Drak''' (Tib. རས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲགས་, [[Wyl.]] ''ras chung rdo rje grags'') or '''Rechungpa''' (Tib. རས་ཆུང་པ་, Wyl. ''ras chung pa'') (1083/5-1161) was one of the main disciples of Jetsün [[Milarepa]]. In later biographies, he is mentioned as the second most important of Milarepa's students, the 'moon-like' disciple, with [[Gampopa]] being the foremost, and compared to the sun. Rechungpa, as his name suggests, was a cotton-clad [[yogin]], unlike Gampopa who was a monk.  


==Primary Students==
==Primary Students==
*Sumpa aka Sumtön (''sum-ston''), Tsangpa Sumpa (''gtsang-pa sum-pa'') and Dampa Sumpa (''dam-pa sum-pa'')
*Sumpa aka Sumtön (Tib. སུམ་སྟོན་, Wyl. ''sum ston''), Tsangpa Sumpa (Tib. གཙང་པ་སུམ་པ་, Wyl. ''gtsang pa sum pa'') and Dampa Sumpa (Tib. དམ་པ་སུམ་པ་, Wyl. ''dam pa sum pa'')
*Gyal-lo
*Gyal-lo
*Yang-gön aka Tönpa Yangdak Pal
*Yang-gön aka Tönpa Yangdak Pal
*Yeshe Lama (Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་བླ་མ་, Wyl. ''ye shes bla ma'')
==Writings==
*''White Rock Vajra Fortress''


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==
*Peter Alan Roberts, ''The Biographies of Rechungpa: The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography'', Routledge, 2007
*Peter Alan Roberts, ''The Biographies of Rechungpa: The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography'', Routledge, 2007
*[[Thrangu Rinpoche]], ''Rechungpa: A Biography of Milarepa's Disciple'', Namo Buddha Publications, 2002
==External Links==
*{{TBRC|P4278|TBRC profile}}


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[[Category: Historical Masters]]
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[[Category: Kagyü Masters]]

Latest revision as of 10:20, 15 October 2011

Rechung Dorje Drak
Rechungpa looking for Milarepa inside the Yak's Horn from a painting by Dugu Choegyal Rinpoche

Rechung Dorje Drak (Tib. རས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲགས་, Wyl. ras chung rdo rje grags) or Rechungpa (Tib. རས་ཆུང་པ་, Wyl. ras chung pa) (1083/5-1161) was one of the main disciples of Jetsün Milarepa. In later biographies, he is mentioned as the second most important of Milarepa's students, the 'moon-like' disciple, with Gampopa being the foremost, and compared to the sun. Rechungpa, as his name suggests, was a cotton-clad yogin, unlike Gampopa who was a monk.

Primary Students

  • Sumpa aka Sumtön (Tib. སུམ་སྟོན་, Wyl. sum ston), Tsangpa Sumpa (Tib. གཙང་པ་སུམ་པ་, Wyl. gtsang pa sum pa) and Dampa Sumpa (Tib. དམ་པ་སུམ་པ་, Wyl. dam pa sum pa)
  • Gyal-lo
  • Yang-gön aka Tönpa Yangdak Pal
  • Yeshe Lama (Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་བླ་མ་, Wyl. ye shes bla ma)

Writings

  • White Rock Vajra Fortress

Further Reading

  • Peter Alan Roberts, The Biographies of Rechungpa: The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography, Routledge, 2007
  • Thrangu Rinpoche, Rechungpa: A Biography of Milarepa's Disciple, Namo Buddha Publications, 2002

External Links