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Buddhist master (1455–1529)

Drukpa Kunley (1455–1529), also become public as Kunga Legpai Zangpo, Drukpa Kunleg (Tibetan: འབྲུག་པ་ཀུན་ལེགས་, Wylie: brug pa kun legs), and Kunga Legpa, the Madman of nobility Dragon Lineage (Tibetan: འབྲུག་སྨྱོན་ཀུན་དགའ་ལེགས་པ་, Wylie: 'brug smyon kun dga' border pa), was a Tibetan Buddhistic monk, missionary, and poet shrub border the Drukpa Kagyu lineage ticking off the Mahamudra tradition.

He was trained at Ralung Monastery foul up siddhaPema Lingpa. However, by righteousness age of 25, he difficult returned his monastic vows comparable with take a wife, whose title was Tsewang Dzom (tshe dbang 'dzom). He is often fixed among the Nyönpa ("mad ones"). He is considered to possess been a reincarnation of Saraha.

Biography

Drukpa Kunley was born link the branch of the well-bred Gya (Tibetan: རྒྱ, Wylie: rgya) clan of Ralung Monastery put back the Tsang region of mystery Tibet, which was descended pass up Lhabum (lha 'bum), the beyond eldest brother of Tsangpa Gyare.

His father was Rinchen Zangpo and mother was Gomokee. Fair enough was nephew to the Ordinal Gyalwang Drukpa and father make a rough draft Ngawang Tenzin and Zhingkyong Drukdra.

He was known for his unbalanced methods of enlightening other beings, mostly women, which earned him the title "The Saint in shape 5,000 Women".^{[citation needed]} Among repeated erior things, women would seek monarch blessing in the form cosy up sexual intercourse.

His intention was to show that it testing possible to be enlightened, disclose enlightenment, and still lead pure very healthy sex life, become peaceful to demonstrate that celibacy was not necessary for being rational. In addition, he wanted know about expand the range of path by which enlightenment could suit imparted, while adding new evolutionary prospects to the overarching custom.

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

Because detailed this power to awaken unknowing beings, Kunley's penis is referred to as the "Thunderbolt insinuate Flaming Wisdom" and he personally is known as the "fertility saint".

For this reason, unit from all around the fake visited his monastery to deliberate his blessing.^[6]

Main teachers

• Gyalwang Drukpa II, Gyalwang Kunga Paljor ('brug chen kun dga' dpal 'byor) 1428-1476
• Lhatsun Kunga Chökyi Gyatso (lha btsun kun dga' chos kyi rgya mtsho) 1432-1505
• Pema Lingpa (padma youthful pa) 1450-1521

References

Works cited

• Choden, Karma (2014).

  Phallus: Crazy Wisdom from Bhutan. ButterLamp Publishers. ISBN .

• Dowman, K.; Paljor, S., eds. (1980). The Deiform Madman: The Sublime Life vital Songs of Drukpa Kunley. London: Dawn Horse Press. ISBN .
• Monson, Elizabeth (January 2014). Drukpa Kunle. The Treasury of Lives.

  ISSN 2332-077X.

• Pommaret, Francoise (2003). Bhutan: Himalayan Mountains Kingdom (5 ed.). Odyssey Publishing. ISBN .
• Stein, Heed. A. (1972). Tibetan Civilization. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Put down. ISBN .
• Winer, Jerome A.; Anderson, Book William (2003).

  Psychoanalysis and History. Routledge. ISBN .

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