| [[ངག་དབང་གྲགས་པ]] [[ngag dbang grags pa]] [[ngahk-wahng drahk-pah]] ([[वागीश्वरकीर्ति]] - [[vāgīśvarakīrti]], [[year of birth]] around [[985]], [[year of death]] around [[1065]]), one of the distinguished [[Pamtingpa Brothers]] from the [[Kathmandu Valley]] of [[Nepal]] during the [[11th century]], was a celebrated [[Newar]] [[mahasiddha]] [[གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཆེན་པོ]] [[grub thob chen po]] [[droop-tohp chen-poh]] ([[महासिद्ध]] - [[mahāsiddha]]) and [[master]] of [[Vajrayana]] [[རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ]] [[rdo rje theg pa]] [[dor-jeh tek-pah]] ([[वज्रयान]] - [[vajrayāna]]) [[Buddhism]] [[ནང་པའི་ཆོས]] [[nang pa'i chos]] [[nahng-peh chuh]] ([[बौद्धधर्म]] - [[bauddhadharma]]) who played an indispensable role in transmitting esoteric lineages from [[India]] [[རྒྱ་གར]] [[rgya gar]] [[gyah-gar]] to [[Tibet]] [[བོད]] [[bod]] [[pö]]. Having traveled to [[India]] to study at Vikramashila monastery under the supreme siddha [[Naropa]] [[ནཱ་རོ་པ]] [[nA ro pa]] [[nah-roh-pah]] ([[1016]]–[[1100]]), [[Ngawang Drakpa]] became a primary lineage holder of the [[Chakrasamvara Tantra]] [[འཁོར་ལོ་སྡོམ་པའི་རྒྱུད]] [['khor lo sdom pa'i rgyud]] [[kor-loh dohm-peh gyoo]] ([[चक्रसंवरतन्त्र]] - [[cakrasaṃvaratantra]], [[Toh 368]]), the [[Vajravarahi Abhidhana Tantra]] [[རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕག་མོ་མངོན་པར་འབྱུང་བའི་རྒྱུད]] [[rdo rje phag mo mngon par 'byung ba'i rgyud]] [[dor-jeh pahk-moh nguhn-par joong-weh gyoo]] ([[वज्रवाराहीअभिधानतन्त्र]] - [[vajravārāhīabhidhānatantra]], [[Toh 377]]), and the [[Six Dharmas of Naropa]] [[ནཱ་རོ་ཆོས་དྲུག]] [[nA ro chos drug]] [[nah-roh chuh-drook]]. Upon returning to Nepal, he instructed pioneering [[Tibetan]] [[lotsawa]] [[ལོ་ཙཱ་བ]] [[lo tsA ba]] [[loh-tsah-wah]] translators including [[Marpa]] [[མར་པ]] [[mar pa]] [[mar-pah]] ([[1012]]–[[1097]]), [[Mal Lotsawa]] [[མལ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ]] [[mal lo tsA ba]] [[mel loh-tsah-wah]], and [[Nyen Lotsawa]] [[གཉན་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ]] [[gnyan lo tsA ba]] [[nyen loh-tsah-wah]], imparting the sacred [[Tantra]] [[རྒྱུད]] [[rgyud]] [[gyoo]] ([[तन्त्र]] - [[tantra]]) transmissions, [[mandala]] [[དཀྱིལ་འཁོར]] [[dkyil 'khor]] [[kyil-kor]] ([[मण्डल]] - [[maṇḍala]]) rites, and [[skillful means]] [[ཐབས]] [[thabs]] [[tahp]] ([[उपाय]] - [[upāya]]) necessary to unite [[emptiness]] [[སྟོང་པ་ཉིད]] [[stong pa nyid]] [[tohng-pah nyee]] ([[शून्यता]] - [[śūnyatā]]) and [[compassion]] [[སྙིང་རྗེ]] [[snying rje]] [[nying-jeh]] ([[करुणा]] - [[karuṇā]]). Through his profound mastery of completion stage [[meditation]] [[སྒོམ]] [[sgom]] [[gohm]] ([[भावना]] - [[bhāvanā]]) and [[bodhicitta]] [[བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས]] [[byang chub kyi sems]] [[jahng-choop kyee sem]] ([[बोधिचित्त]] - [[bodhicitta]]), [[Ngawang Drakpa]] established foundational transmission streams across the [[Sakya]] [[ས་སྐྱ]] [[sa skya]] [[sah-kyah]] and [[Kagyu]] [[བཀའ་བརྒྱུད]] [[bka' brgyud]] [[kah-gyoo]] traditions for purifying [[karma]] [[ལས]] [[las]] [[leh]] ([[कर्म]] - [[karma]]), realizing innate [[Buddha-nature]] [[བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ]] [[bde gshegs snying po]] [[deh-shek nying-poh]] ([[तथागतगर्भ]] - [[tathāgatagarbha]]), transcending [[samsara]] [[འཁོར་བ]] [['khor ba]] [[kor-wah]] ([[संसार]] - [[saṃsāra]]), and attaining full [[awakening]] [[བྱང་ཆུབ]] [[byang chub]] [[jahng-choop]] ([[बोधि]] - [[bodhi]]) and [[nirvana]] [[མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ]] [[mya ngan las 'das pa]] [[nyah-ngen leh deh-pah]] ([[निर्वाण]] - [[nirvāṇa]]). | [[ངག་དབང་གྲགས་པ]] [[ngag dbang grags pa]] [[ngahk-wahng drahk-pah]] ([[वागीश्वरकीर्ति]] - [[vāgīśvarakīrti]], [[year of birth]] around [[985]], [[year of death]] around [[1065]]), one of the distinguished [[Pamtingpa Brothers]] from the [[Kathmandu Valley]] of [[Nepal]] during the [[11th century]], was a celebrated [[Newar]] [[mahasiddha]] [[གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཆེན་པོ]] [[grub thob chen po]] [[droop-tohp chen-poh]] ([[महासिद्ध]] - [[mahāsiddha]]) and [[master]] of [[Vajrayana]] [[རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ]] [[rdo rje theg pa]] [[dor-jeh tek-pah]] ([[वज्रयान]] - [[vajrayāna]]) [[Buddhism]] [[ནང་པའི་ཆོས]] [[nang pa'i chos]] [[nahng-peh chuh]] ([[बौद्धधर्म]] - [[bauddhadharma]]) who played an indispensable role in transmitting esoteric lineages from [[India]] [[རྒྱ་གར]] [[rgya gar]] [[gyah-gar]] to [[Tibet]] [[བོད]] [[bod]] [[pö]]. Having traveled to [[India]] to study at Vikramashila monastery under the supreme siddha [[Naropa]] [[ནཱ་རོ་པ]] [[nA ro pa]] [[nah-roh-pah]] ([[1016]]–[[1100]]), [[Ngawang Drakpa]] became a primary lineage holder of the [[Chakrasamvara Tantra]] [[འཁོར་ལོ་སྡོམ་པའི་རྒྱུད]] [['khor lo sdom pa'i rgyud]] [[kor-loh dohm-peh gyoo]] ([[चक्रसंवरतन्त्र]] - [[cakrasaṃvaratantra]], [[Toh 368]]), the [[Vajravarahi Abhidhana Tantra]] [[རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕག་མོ་མངོན་པར་འབྱུང་བའི་རྒྱུད]] [[rdo rje phag mo mngon par 'byung ba'i rgyud]] [[dor-jeh pahk-moh nguhn-par joong-weh gyoo]] ([[वज्रवाराहीअभिधानतन्त्र]] - [[vajravārāhīabhidhānatantra]], [[Toh 377]]), and the [[Six Dharmas of Naropa]] [[ནཱ་རོ་ཆོས་དྲུག]] [[nA ro chos drug]] [[nah-roh chuh-drook]]. Upon returning to Nepal, he instructed pioneering [[Tibetan]] [[lotsawa]] [[ལོ་ཙཱ་བ]] [[lo tsA ba]] [[loh-tsah-wah]] translators including [[Marpa]] [[མར་པ]] [[mar pa]] [[mar-pah]] ([[1012]]–[[1097]]), [[Mal Lotsawa]] [[མལ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ]] [[mal lo tsA ba]] [[mel loh-tsah-wah]], and [[Nyen Lotsawa]] [[གཉན་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ]] [[gnyan lo tsA ba]] [[nyen loh-tsah-wah]], imparting the sacred [[Tantra]] [[རྒྱུད]] [[rgyud]] [[gyoo]] ([[तन्त्र]] - [[tantra]]) transmissions, [[mandala]] [[དཀྱིལ་འཁོར]] [[dkyil 'khor]] [[kyil-kor]] ([[मण्डल]] - [[maṇḍala]]) rites, and [[skillful means]] [[ཐབས]] [[thabs]] [[tahp]] ([[उपाय]] - [[upāya]]) necessary to unite [[emptiness]] [[སྟོང་པ་ཉིད]] [[stong pa nyid]] [[tohng-pah nyee]] ([[शून्यता]] - [[śūnyatā]]) and [[compassion]] [[སྙིང་རྗེ]] [[snying rje]] [[nying-jeh]] ([[करुणा]] - [[karuṇā]]). Through his profound mastery of completion stage [[meditation]] [[སྒོམ]] [[sgom]] [[gohm]] ([[भावना]] - [[bhāvanā]]) and [[bodhicitta]] [[བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས]] [[byang chub kyi sems]] [[jahng-choop kyee sem]] ([[बोधिचित्त]] - [[bodhicitta]]), [[Ngawang Drakpa]] established foundational transmission streams across the [[Sakya]] [[ས་སྐྱ]] [[sa skya]] [[sah-kyah]] and [[Kagyu]] [[བཀའ་བརྒྱུད]] [[bka' brgyud]] [[kah-gyoo]] traditions for purifying [[karma]] [[ལས]] [[las]] [[leh]] ([[कर्म]] - [[karma]]), realizing innate [[Buddha-nature]] [[བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ]] [[bde gshegs snying po]] [[deh-shek nying-poh]] ([[तथागतगर्भ]] - [[tathāgatagarbha]]), transcending [[samsara]] [[འཁོར་བ]] [['khor ba]] [[kor-wah]] ([[संसार]] - [[saṃsāra]]), and attaining full [[awakening]] [[བྱང་ཆུབ]] [[byang chub]] [[jahng-choop]] ([[बोधि]] - [[bodhi]]) and [[nirvana]] [[མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ]] [[mya ngan las 'das pa]] [[nyah-ngen leh deh-pah]] ([[निर्वाण]] - [[nirvāṇa]]). |
