People/'brom ston pa

འབྲོམ་སྟོན་པ་

Dromtönpa(1004/1005 - 1064) 

Born in:

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Dromtonpa Gyelwa Jungne was one of the primary disciples of Atiśa and is considered the founder of the Kadampa school of Tibetan Buddhism. A layman, he nevertheless established Reting Monastery in 1057, one of the great centers of the Kadampa tradition.

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Mentioned in

The ''Uttaratantra'' and Mahāmudrā

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Brunnhölzl, Karl. "The Uttaratantra and Mahāmudrā." In When the Clouds Part: The Uttaratantra and Its Meditative Tradition as a Bridge between Sūtra and Tantra, 151–282. Boston: Snow Lion Publications, 2014. As stated before, texts such as CMW, those by Mönlam Tsültrim, GC, the Eighth Karmapa’s Lamp, and GISM all establish connections between the Uttaratantra and Mahāmudrā. Such connections are also found in a number of Indian and Tibetan Mahāmudrā works. Usually, these connections are made in the wider context of the Mahāmudrā approaches that came to be called "sūtra Mahāmudrā" or "essence Mahāmudrā" (the Mahāmudrā approach that is beyond "sūtra Mahāmudrā" and "tantra Mahāmudrā").

Other names

• རྒྱལ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས་ · other names (Tibetan)
• rgyal ba'i 'byung gnas · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

• Kadam · religious affiliation
• Atīśa · teacher
• po to ba rin chen gsal · student
• phu chung ba gzhon nu rgyal mtshan · student
• spyan snga tshul khrims ’bar · student