Pawo Rinpoche, 2nd

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དཔའ་བོ་གཙུག་ལག་ཕྲེང་བ་
The Second Pawo Tsuklak Trengwa(1504 - 1566) 

The Second Pawo Tsuklak Trengwa was a prominent sixteenth-century Kagyu scholar whose best known composition was the Chojung Khepai Gaton (chos 'byung khas pa'i dga' ston), or Scholars Feast, a history of Buddhism in India and Tibet, as well as the history of the Karma Kagyu tradition. He is also famous for a massive commentary (975 folios) on the Bodhicaryāvatāra (The Way of the Bodhisattva), which is still the standard for Karma Kagyu commentaries. He was a disciple of the Eighth Karmapa, the Fourth Zhamar, Dakpo Chokle Namgyel and other Kagyu lamas. He supervised the cremation the Eighth Karmapa, enthroned the Fifth Zhamar and also later organized the enthronement of the Ninth Karmapa.

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  • གཙུག་ལག་འཕྲེང་བ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • དཔའ་བོ་གཙུག་ལག་ཕྲེང་བ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • མི་ཕམ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • མི་ཕམ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དོན་ཡོངས་སུ་གྲུབ་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • gtsug lag 'phreng ba · other names (Wylie)
  • dpa' bo gtsug lag phreng ba · other names (Wylie)
  • mi pham chos kyi rgya mtsho · other names (Wylie)
  • mi pham chos kyi rgyal po don yongs su grub pa · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

  • gnyags dung rus · familial relation
  • Karma KagyuKarma Kagyu · religious affiliation
  • Karmapa, 8th · teacher
  • Shamarpa, 4th · teacher
  • Karmapa, 9th · student
  • Shamarpa, 5th · student