Dampa Sangye
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Dampa Sangye (Wylie: dam pa sangs rgyas "Excellent Buddhahood", d.1117, also called "Father Excellent Buddhahood", Wylie: pha dam pa sangs rgyas[1]) was a Buddhist mahasiddha of the Indian Tantra movement who transmitted many teachings based on both Sutrayana and Tantrayana to Buddhist practitioners in Tibet in the late 11th century. He travelled to Tibet more than five times. On his third trip from India to Tibet he met Machig Labdrön. Dampa Sangye appears in many of the lineages of Chöd and so in Tibet he is known as the Father of Chod, however perhaps his best known teaching is "the Pacification" (Tibetan: ཞི་བྱེད།, Wylie: zhi byed, THL: Zhijé). This teaching became an element of the Mahamudra Chöd lineages founded by Machig Labdrön.
His Tibetan name translates into Sanskrit as Buddha Paramapitā "Buddha Excellent Father". He often was identified by the descriptive name Nakpopa, "Black One".[2]
History
Some texts report that Padmasambhava was reborn as Dampa Sangye during the life of Machig Labdrön.[3]
Another text says:
Padampa Sangye (known in India as Paramabuddha) was from southern India, and traveled widely in India, Tibet and China, until his death around 1117 AD. It is widely believed that Padampa Sangye was a mindstream 'emanation' (tulku) of the 8th century monk Kamalaśīla, one of the early teachers of the Dharma in Tibet. He spent much time teaching in the Tingri valley, located between Tibet and Nepal, where he founded a monastery.,.[4][5]
Drum khar Nagpopa: Khampa yogi who meditated in dark retreat for 18 years was -according to Keith Dowman- considered to have been the twelfth of Dudjom/Jiktrel Yeshe Dorje's seventeen previous incarnations.[6]
According to Dilgo Khyentse (1910–1991), considered an emanation of Dampa Sangye, the story goes that the great pandit Śāntarakṣita, who was instrumental in transplanting Buddhism from India to Tibet, promised that one of his students would come one day to complete his work. Kamalaśīla (Tib., Padampa Sangye) fulfilled this prophecy. Khyentse Rinpoche in a 1987 gathering of students at Shechen Monastery, his seat in Nepal, offered a commentary on the Hundred Verses of Padampa Sangye.[7]
In the
Bardok Chusang Rinpoche is recognized as the incarnation Dampa Sangye. He is a married yogi, living in Kathmandu.[9]
There is a
For simplicity, the Indian tantric transmission may be characterized as "
According to the lore of the orthodox, prevailing Tibetan cultural tradition,
One hagiography asserts that directly after this debate with Moheyan, as Kamalaśīla was making his way down from the Himalaya to the Indian lowlands, he was incited to enact
In another version of the previous, it was Dampa Sangye himself who lost his body while animating an elephant corpse, as an Indian adept believed Sangye to be a corpse and took his more beautiful body. Sangye was left with the adept's body, which earned him the nickname of "Little Black One" (nag chung) due to its short stature and dark skin.[18]
Tingri Hundred (Wylie: ding ri brgya rtsa)
Padampa Sangye's last testament to the people of Tingri is known by various names in English 'The Tingri Hundred' or the 'Hundred Verses'. The roman-letter transcription (Wylie) of the Tibetan, along with an English translation, is available on the Internet.[19]
References
- ^ tbrc.org: pha dam pa sangs rgyas
- ISBN 978-1-932476-01-9.
- ^ [Women of Wisdom, Extract :MACHIG LAPDRON] "In the Life of Yeshe Tsogyel,1 Padmasambhava predicted that Yeshe Tsogyel would be reborn as Machig Lapdron; her consort, Atsara Sale, would become Topabhadra, Machig’s husband; her assistant and consort to Padma Sambhava, Tashi Khyidren, would be reborn as Machig’s only daughter, and so on. All of the important figures in Tsogyeshayeni e legall’s life were to be reborn in the life of Machig Lapdron, including Padmasambhava himself, who would become Phadampa Sangye." by Tsultrim Allione
- ^ [Reviews]
- ^ ["Deshalb ließ er sich in Tingri nieder und gründete dort ein Kloster."]
- ^ [Lineage Dudjom Rimpoche] Websites of Keith Dowman
- ^ [Never Born, Never Ceasing - A teaching on the nature of mind by the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche]
- ISBN 978-1-55939-039-2.
- ^ The Lineage of Tinley Gyamtso Lama, the Bardok Chusang Rinpoche
- ^ An iconographic thangka depiction of Moheyan is held in the SAMA collection and may be seen here "Untitled Document". Archived from the original on 2008-07-20. Retrieved 2009-06-08. (accessed: January 14, 2008)
- ISBN 978-1-55939-039-2.
- ^ van Schaik, Sam and Dalton, Jacob (2004). "Where Chan and Tantra Meet: Buddhist Syncretism in Dunhuang" in Whitfield, Susan (ed) (2004). The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith. London: British Library Press. 61–71.
- ^ a b c van Schaik, Sam (25 March 2008). "The Great Perfection and the Chinese Monk: Nyingmapa Defenses of Hashang Mahāyāna".
- ^ ISBN 978-0-691-15786-3., p. 273
- ^ Gomez, Luis O. (1983). "The Direct and Gradual Approaches of Zen Master Mahāyāna: Fragments of the Teachings of Moheyan" in: Gimello, Robert M. and Peter N. Gregory (eds), Studies in Chan and Hua-yen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press: 393–434.
- ^ Ruegg, D. Seyfort (1992). Buddha-nature, Mind and the Problem of Gradualism in a Comparative Perspective: On the Transmission and Reception of Buddhism in India and Tibet. London: School of Oriental and African Studies.
- ^ Thrangu, Khenchen & Klonk, Christoph (translator) & Hollmann, Gaby (editor and annotator)(2006). Chod – The Introduction & A Few Practices.
- ^ Jamgon Kongtru Lodro Taye, Zhije: The Pacification of Suffering: Essential Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet, Volume 13, 2019, Shambhala Publications, ISBN 9781559394840
- ^ "The Tingri Hundred - Tibetological".
Further reading
- Dilgo Khyentse: The Hundred Verses of Advice of Padampa Sangye. Translated by Padmakara Translation Group. Published by Shechen Publications, New Delhi, 2002. ISBN 978-81-7472-088-7
- Padampa Sangye and Chökyi Senge: Lion of Siddhas: The Life and Teachings of Padampa Sangye translated by David Molk with Lama Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche, Snow Lion Pubn (July 30, 2008), ISBN 978-1-55939-299-0(13)
- Sorensen, Michelle (March 2011). "Padampa Sanggye". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters.