Drukpa kunley monastery mesa

drukpa kunley monastery mesa

Drukpa Kunley | Tibet Travel and Tours

    Drukpa Kunley (–), also known as Kunga Legpai Zangpo, Drukpa Kunleg (Tibetan: འབྲུག་པ་ཀུན་ལེགས་, Wylie: brug pa kun legs), and Kunga Legpa, the Madman of the Dragon Lineage (Tibetan: འབྲུག་སྨྱོན་ཀུན་དགའ་ལེགས་པ་, Wylie: 'brug smyon kun dga' legs pa), was a Tibetan Buddhist monk, missionary, and poet in the Drukpa Kagyu lineage of the Maha.

The Divine Madman of Bhutan, Drukpa Kunley

  • Near the town of Punakha, Drukpa Kunley founded a monastery dedicated to fertility.

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  • Drukpa Kunley was born into the branch of the noble Gya (Tibetan: རྒྱ, Wylie: rgya) clan of Ralung Monastery in the Tsang region of western Tibet, which was descended from Lhabum (lha 'bum), the second eldest brother of Tsangpa Gyare.
    • The hike up to the monastery through pine forest takes about 2 to 3 hours.
    Drukpa Kunle was an itinerant, homeless yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, who spent his life wandering through south-central Tibet and throughout the areas known today as Bhutan and Sikkim, singing songs and promoting his own unusual brand of Buddhism.
    Some of these enlightened saints, such as Drukpa Kunley achieved levels of renown despite being renegades on the fringes of society.

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  • Pilgrims come from all over the country to receive fertility blessings from the avant-garde Lama Drukpa Kunley “thunderbolt”.

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  • Drukpa Kunle was an itinerant, homeless yogin in the tradition of Milarepa, who spent his life wandering through south-central Tibet and throughout the areas known today as Bhutan and Sikkim, singing songs and promoting his own unusual brand of Buddhism.

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      It’s time for you to meet Drukpa Kunley, the Divine Madman, one of the most celebrated characters in Bhutan (–).

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      Drukpa Kunley, once ensconced in the tranquility of monastic routine, now embarked on a new odyssey—one that involved the complexities of human relationships, the joys of parenthood, and the responsibilities of a householder.
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    Drukpa Kunley - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia

      Drukpa Kunley's earthly journey began in the Earth Pig year of 1455, a time when the Ralung Monastery in the Tibetan region of Kyisho bore witness to the birth of a soul destined for a unique path.

    Drukpa Kunley

    Buddhist master (1455–1529)

    Drukpa Kunley

    Born1455
    Died1529 (aged 73–74)
    Parents
    • Rinchen Zangpo (father)
    • Gomokee (mother)
    ReligionTibetan Buddhism

    Drukpa Kunley (1455–1529), also known as Kunga Legpai Zangpo, Drukpa Kunleg (Tibetan: འབྲུག་པ་ཀུན་ལེགས་, Wylie: brug pa kun legs), and Kunga Legpa, the Madman of the Dragon Lineage (Tibetan: འབྲུག་སྨྱོན་ཀུན་དགའ་ལེགས་པ་, Wylie: 'brug smyon kun dga' legs pa), was a Tibetan Buddhist monk, missionary, and poet in the Drukpa Kagyu lineage of the Mahamudra tradition. He was trained at Ralung Monastery under siddhaPema Lingpa. However, by the age of 25, he had returned his monastic vows to take a wife, whose name was Tsewang Dzom (tshe dbang 'dzom). He is often counted among the Nyönpa ("mad ones"). He is considered to have been a reincarnation of Saraha.

    Biography

    Drukpa Kunley was born into the branch of the noble Gya (Tibetan: རྒྱ, Wylie: rgya) c