See also Geshe Ngawang Dakpa of FPMT Tse Chen Ling

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).