As predicted by the Eighth Karmapa, the Ninth was born in the Treshö region of eastern Tibet. He was heard reciting mantras in the womb during pregnancy and he, too, sat cross-legged for three days soon after birth and declared he was the Karmapa.
In accordance to the prediction letter left by the Eighth Karmapa, he was soon recognized by the Tai Situpa Chökyi Gocha, who was staying not far away, and by the Sharmapa Konchok Yenlak. A year later, Shamarpa enthroned him at the age of six and gave him extensive teachings.
Once Wangchuk Dorje had received the complete Kagyu transmission, he began to teach throughout Tibet, traveling in a monastic camp, which strictly emphasized meditation practice. Wangchuk Dorje did not visit China. He gave many teachings and restored monasteries and temples wherever he went.
Like the Eighth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje was also a creative author and wrote many condensed commentaries on sutras and tantras, including three mahamudra treatises: The Ocean of Definitive Meaning, Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance, and Pointing Out the Dharmakaya. These treatises have played a major role in Tibet for the teaching and transmission of mahamudra. (Source Accessed Jul 29, 2020)
In accordance to the prediction letter left by the Eighth Karmapa, he was soon recognized by the Tai Situpa Chökyi Gocha, who was staying not far away, and by the Sharmapa Konchok Yenlak. A year later, Shamarpa enthroned him at the age of six and gave him extensive teachings.
Once Wangchuk Dorje had received the complete Kagyu transmission, he began to teach throughout Tibet, traveling in a monastic camp, which strictly emphasized meditation practice. Wangchuk Dorje did not visit China. He gave many teachings and restored monasteries and temples wherever he went.
Like the Eighth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje was also a creative author and wrote many condensed commentaries on sutras and tantras, including three mahamudra treatises: The Ocean of Definitive Meaning, Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance, and Pointing Out the Dharmakaya. These treatises have played a major role in Tibet for the teaching and transmission of mahamudra. (Source Accessed Jul 29, 2020)
Library Items
Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā
This classic Buddhist work, written in the sixteenth century, comprehensively presents the entire scope of the Tibetan Kagyu Mahāmudrā tradition. These profound yet accessible instructions focus on becoming familiar with the nature of one’s mind as the primary means to realize ultimate reality and thus attain buddhahood. Dakpo Tashi Namgyal’s manual for the view and practice of Mahāmudrā is widely considered the single most important work on the subject, systematically introducing the view and associated meditation techniques in a progressive manner.
Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā, along with the Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje’s Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance, are to this day some of the most studied texts on Mahāmudrā in the Kagyu monasteries throughout Tibet and the Himalayas. Elizabeth M. Callahan, a renowned translator of classical Kagyu literature, has provided new translations of these two texts along with ancillary materials and annotations, making this a genuine resource for both scholars and students of Tibetan Buddhism. This historic contribution therefore offers the necessary tools to properly study and apply the Mahāmudrā teachings in a modern context. (Source: Shambhala Publications)
Callahan, Elizabeth M., trans. Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā. By Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (dwags po bkra shis rnam rgyal). With Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance by Wangchuk Dorje (dbang phyug rdo rje), the Ninth Karmapa. Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion Publications, 2019.
Callahan, Elizabeth M., trans. Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā. By Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (dwags po bkra shis rnam rgyal). With Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance by Wangchuk Dorje (dbang phyug rdo rje), the Ninth Karmapa. Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion Publications, 2019.;Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā;Kagyu;Mahamudra;Meditation;Elizabeth Callahan; Dakpo Tashi Namgyal;དྭགས་པོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་;dwags po bkra shis rnam rgyal;sgam po pa bkra shis rnam rgyal;dwags po paN chen bkra shis rnam rgyal;sgam po pa paN chen bkra shis rnam rgyal;སྒམ་པོ་པ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་;དྭགས་པོ་པཎ་ཆེན་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་;སྒམ་པོ་པ་པཎ་ཆེན་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་;Takpo Tashi Namgyal;Gampopa Tashi Namgyal;Tashi Namgyal;Dakpo Panchen Tashi Namgyal;Dakpo Paṇchen Tashi Namgyal;Gampo Panchen Tashi Namgyal;Gampo Paṇchen Tashi Namgyal;Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje;དབང་ཕྱུག་རྡོ་རྗེ་;dbang phyug rdo rje;karma pa dgu pa;dkon mchog 'bangs;nam mkha' rgyal po;dpal ldan mi pham chos kyi dbang phyug;ཀརྨ་པ་དགུ་པ་;དཀོན་མཆོག་འབངས་;ནམ་མཁའ་རྒྱལ་པོ་;དཔལ་ལྡན་མི་ཕམ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་;Karmapa, 9th;Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā - Dakpo Tashi Namgyal: With Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance by Wangchuk Dorje, the Ninth Karmapa;Dwags po bkra shis rnam rgyal;Karmapa, 9th
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Mind Seeing Mind
Roger Jackson's Mind Seeing Mind is the first attempt to provide both a scholarly study of the history, texts, and doctrines of Geluk mahāmudrā and translations of some of its seminal texts. It begins with a survey of the Indian sources of the teaching and goes on the discuss the place of mahāmudrā in non-Geluk Tibetan Buddhist schools, especially the Kagyü. The book then turns to a detailed survey of the history and major textual sources of Geluk mahāmudrā, from Tsongkhapa, through the First Panchen, down to the present. The final section of the study addresses critical questions, including the relation between Geluk and Kagyü mahāmudrā, the ways Gelukpa authors have interpreted the mahāsiddha Saraha, and the broader religious-studies implications raised by Tibetan debates about mahāmudrā. The translation portion of Mind Seeing Mind includes eleven texts on mahāmudrā history, ritual, and practice. Foremost among these is the First Panchen Lama's autocommentary on his root verses of Geluk Mahāmudrā, the foundation of the tradition. Also included is his ritual masterpiece Offering to the Guru, which is a staple of Geluk practice, and a selection of his songs of spiritual experience. Mind Seeing Mind adds considerably to our understanding of Geluk spirituality and shows how mahāmudrā came to be woven throughout the fabric of the tradition. (Source: Wisdom Publications)
Jackson, Roger R. Mind Seeing Mind: Mahāmudrā and the Geluk Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2019.
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Other names
- ཀརྨ་པ་དགུ་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- དཀོན་མཆོག་འབངས་ · other names (Tibetan)
- ནམ་མཁའ་རྒྱལ་པོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- དཔལ་ལྡན་མི་ཕམ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ · other names (Tibetan)
- karma pa dgu pa · other names (Wylie)
- dkon mchog 'bangs · other names (Wylie)
- nam mkha' rgyal po · other names (Wylie)
- dpal ldan mi pham chos kyi dbang phyug · other names (Wylie)
- Karmapa, 9th · other names
Affiliations & relations
- Karma Kagyu · religious affiliation
- Karmapa, 8th · emanation of
- Karmapa, 10th · incarnation
- Pawo Rinpoche, 2nd · teacher
- Shamarpa, 5th · teacher
- rnam rgyal grags pa · teacher
- Tai Situpa, 4th · teacher
- rgyal ba seng+ge · teacher
- karma bstan 'phel · student
- karma bstan srung · student
- tA ra nA tha · student
- dge legs dpal bzang · student
- lhag bsam rgya mtsho · student
- karma legs bshad sgra dbyangs · student
- Shamarpa, 6th · student
- Tai Situpa, 5th · student
- karma mkhyen brtse · student
- rin chen shes rab · student
- khyab bdag grub mchog dbang po · student
- kun dga' rnam rgyal · student
- Yongs 'dzin rnam rgyal grags pa · student
- Pawo Rinpoche, 3rd · student
Tertön Gyatsa Information from the Rinchen Terdzö
Text
Tibetan
Wylie
The full Tertön Gyatsa text can be found at the following page: Volume 1 (ཀ), 341-765, 1a1-213a4.
Name in Gyatsa: ཀརྨ་པ་དགུ་པ་དབང་ཕྱུག་རྡོ་རྗེ་ (karma pa dgu pa dbang phyug rdo rje)
Page #s for bio of this person: 710 to 710
Folio #s for bio of this person: 185b4 to 185b5
དཔལ་ཀརྨ་པ་དྲུག་པ་མཐོང་བ་དོན་ལྡན་གནས་ཆེན་ཙ་རི་ཏྲར་ཐུགས་དམ་ལ་བཞུགས་པའི་སྐབས། རྔ་ཡབ་གླིང་ནས་སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་ཟླ་བ་པ་ཕོ་ཉར་མངགས་ཏེ་ཚེ་སྒྲུབ་ཟབ་མོའི་གདམས་པ་བསྩལ་པ། ཕྱིས་རྗེ་དགུ་པ་དབང་ཕྱུག་རྡོ་རྗེས་མངོན་རྟོགས་ཞི་ཕྲེང་གི་གྲལ་དུ་བཀོད་པར་མཛད་པའི་དབང་གི་རྒྱུན་ད་ལྟའང་མཆིས་སོ་
dpal karma pa drug pa mthong ba don ldan gnas chen tsa ri trar thugs dam la bzhugs pa'i skabs/_rnga yab gling nas slob dpon chen pos grub chen zla ba pa pho nyar mngags te tshe sgrub zab mo'i gdams pa bstsal pa/_phyis rje dgu pa dbang phyug rdo rjes mngon rtogs zhi phreng gi gral du bkod par mdzad pa'i dbang gi rgyun da lta'ang mchis so
