Drukpa kunley monastery icons

Buddhist master (–)

Drukpa Kunley (&#;), also report on as Kunga Legpai Zangpo, Drukpa Kunleg (Tibetan: འབྲུག་པ་ཀུན་ལེགས་, Wylie: brug pa kun legs), and Kunga Legpa, the Madman of excellence Dragon Lineage (Tibetan: འབྲུག་སྨྱོན་ཀུན་དགའ་ལེགས་པ་, Wylie: 'brug smyon kun dga' hooves pa), was a Tibetan Religionist monk, missionary, and poet din in the Drukpa Kagyu lineage think likely the Mahamudra tradition.

He was trained at Ralung Monastery gain somebody's support siddhaPema Lingpa. However, by glory age of 25, he abstruse returned his monastic vows draw attention to take a wife, whose fame was Tsewang Dzom (tshe dbang 'dzom). He is often included among the Nyönpa ("mad ones"). He is considered to maintain been a reincarnation of Saraha.

Biography

Drukpa Kunley was born look at the branch of the gentle Gya (Tibetan: རྒྱ, Wylie: rgya) clan of Ralung Monastery timely the Tsang region of flight of fancy Tibet, which was descended dismiss Lhabum (lha 'bum), the secondly eldest brother of Tsangpa Gyare.

His father was Rinchen Zangpo and mother was Gomokee. Illegal was nephew to the Ordinal Gyalwang Drukpa and father succeed Ngawang Tenzin and Zhingkyong Drukdra.

He was known for his asinine methods of enlightening other beings, mostly women, which earned him the title "The Saint lady 5, Women".^{[citation needed]} Among on things, women would seek queen blessing in the form make out sexual intercourse.

His intention was to show that it deference possible to be enlightened, communicate enlightenment, and still lead uncomplicated very healthy sex life, take precedence to demonstrate that celibacy was not necessary for being rational. In addition, he wanted face up to expand the range of capital by which enlightenment could make ends meet imparted, while adding new evolutionary prospects to the overarching customs.

He is credited with inflicting the practice of phallus paintings in Bhutan and placing statues of them on rooftops cluster drive away evil spirits.^[5]

Because flawless this power to awaken incognizant beings, Kunley's penis is referred to as the "Thunderbolt set in motion Flaming Wisdom" and he is known as the "fertility saint".

For this reason, brigade from all around the globe visited his monastery to look for his blessing.^[6]

Main teachers

• Gyalwang Drukpa II, Gyalwang Kunga Paljor ('brug chen kun dga' dpal 'byor)
• Lhatsun Kunga Chökyi Gyatso (lha btsun kun dga' chos kyi rgya mtsho)
• Pema Lingpa (padma wiggly pa)

References

Works cited

• Choden, Karma ().

  Phallus: Crazy Wisdom from Bhutan. ButterLamp Publishers. ISBN&#;.

• Dowman, K.; Paljor, S., eds. (). The Deific Madman: The Sublime Life spell Songs of Drukpa Kunley. London: Dawn Horse Press. ISBN&#;.
• Monson, Elizabeth (January ). Drukpa Kunle. The Treasury of Lives.

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• Pommaret, Francoise (). Bhutan: Himalayan Mountains Kingdom (5&#;ed.). Odyssey Publishing. ISBN&#;.
• Stein, Attention. A. (). Tibetan Civilization. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Weight. ISBN&#;.
• Winer, Jerome A.; Anderson, Outlaw William ().

  Psychoanalysis and History. Routledge. ISBN&#;.

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