Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Drukpa Kunley: Wikipedia

  1. In early 1986 I went with my family by train and a short distance by bus from Bodhghaya to Varanasi, to Agra and the Taj Mahal, to New Delhi for a week or more and then by train to I believe Pathankot in

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      in Punjab and there by bus to Dharamshala, India at about 6000 feet in the Himalayas in Himachal pradesh state in India.
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          When I finally arrived there with my family and Geshe Lobsang Gyatso and his Darjeeling Translator who was also a Tibetan Refugee living in India I met one of his students from Tibet called Thubten who had been Gelukpa monk from Tibet and had become a translator and a Mountain climbing Guide who also spoke excellent English. He told me amazingly funny stories about Drukpa Kunley which I believed then was a mythical Dharma person because these funny stories were so unbelievable to a westerner like me. 

          So, I was VERY surprised 20 years later in discovering Drukpa Kunley was a Bhutanese Crazy Wisdom actual historical figure. I soon bought a book on his life called "The Divine madman" which I was amazed at reading. But, it might be important to know that funny stories about Drukpa Kunley left me falling on the floor in Dharamshala told to me in English by the Monk (now mountain Climbing guide) Thubten who had temporarily given up his robes to financially support his parents until they passed away. While I was there he also married a lady from Minneapolis named Tara and returned there with her and I saw him once or twice more in Santa Cruz as he toured with the Gyuto Tantric Monks during the late 1980s.

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    Drukpa Kunley - Wikipedia

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    Drukpa Kunley (1455–1529), also known as Kunga Legpai Zangpo, Drukpa Kunleg (Tibetan: འབྲུག་པ་ཀུན་ལེགས་, Wylie: 'brug pa kun legs ...
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    Divine Madman, The Life of Drupka Kunley, translation and commentary by Keith Dowman
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    Drukpa Kunley

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    Drukpa Kunley (1455–1529), also known as Kunga Legpai Zangpo, Drukpa Kunleg (Tibetan: འབྲུག་པ་ཀུན་ལེགས་Wylie: 'brug pa kun legs), and Kunga Legpa, the Madman of the Dragon Lineage (Tibetan: འབྲུག་སྨྱོན་ཀུན་དགའ་ལེགས་པ་Wylie: 'brug smyon kun dga' legs pa), was a monk (Mahamudra) in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, as well as a famous poet,[1] and is often counted among the Nyönpa ("mad ones"). After undergoing training in Ralung Monastery under siddha Pema Lingpa, he introduced Buddhism to Bhutan and established the monastery of Chimi Lhakhang there in 1499.

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    Biography

    Drukpa Kunley was born into the branch of the noble Gya (Tibetan: རྒྱWylie: rgya) clan of Ralung Monastery in the Tsang region of western Tibet, which was descended from Lhabum (lha 'bum), the second eldest brother of Tsangpa Gyare. His father was Rinchen Zangpo. He was nephew to the 2nd Gyalwang Drukpa and father of Ngawang Tenzin and Zhingkyong Drukdra.[citation needed]
    He was known for his crazy methods of enlightening other beings, mostly women, which earned him the title "The Saint of 5,000 Women". Among other things, women would seek his blessing in the form of sex. His intention was to show that it is possible to be enlightened, impart enlightenment, and still lead a very healthy sex life. He demonstrated that celibacy was not necessary for being enlightened. In addition, he wanted to expand the range of means by which enlightenment could be imparted, while adding new evolutionary prospects to the overarching tradition. He is credited with introducing the practice of phallus paintings in Bhutan and placing statues of them on rooftops to drive away evil spirits.[2] Because of this power to awaken unenlightened beings, Kunley's penis is referred to as the "Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom" and he himself is known as the "fertility saint". For this reason women from all around the world visited his monastery to seek his blessing.[3][4]
    Visitors to Drukpa Kunley's monastery in Bhutan are welcome to enjoy a short trek up a hill. The monastery is very modest, only one smallish building, but it contains a wood-and-ivory lingam through which one can obtain blessings from the monk in residence.[citation needed].

    Poems and songs of Drukpa Kunley

    Poem about happiness
    I am happy that I am a free Yogi.
    So I grow more and more into my inner happiness.
    I can have sex with many women,
    because I help them to go the path of enlightenment.
    Outwardly I'm a fool
    and inwardly I live with a clear spiritual system.
    Outwardly, I enjoy wine, women and song.
    And inwardly I work for the benefit of all beings.
    Outwardly, I live for my pleasure
    and inwardly I do everything in the right moment.
    Outwardly I am a ragged beggar
    and inwardly a blissful Buddha.
    Song about the pleasure
    A young woman finds pleasure in love. A young man finds pleasure in sex. An old man finds pleasure in his memoirs. This is the doctrine of the three pleasures.
    Who does not know the truth, is confused. Those who have no goals, can not sacrifice. Those who have no courage, can not be a Yogi. This is the doctrine of the three missing things.
    Even if a person knows the way of wisdom; without practicing there is no realization. Even if a master shows you the way, you have to go it by yourself.
    The five spiritual ways
    I practice the path of self-discipline. I meditate every day.
    I go the way of embracing love. I work as a mother and father of all beings.
    I do the deity yoga. I visualize myself as a Buddha in the cosmic unity.
    I read the books of all religions and practice all at the right moment.
    The life is my teacher and my inner wisdom is my guide.[5]

    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 gling pa) 1445-1521

    Main lineages

    See also

    Notes


  4. Stein (1972), pp. 262, 272.

    1. Retold from Keith Dowman, Franz-Karl Ehrhard (Translator): The holy fool- the dissolute life and the profane songs of the tantric master Drugpa Künleg. O.W. Barth in jest, 2005, ISBN 978-3-502-61159-2

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  • Karma Choden (2014). Phallus: Crazy Wisdom from Bhutan. Bhutan: ButterLamp Publishers. ISBN 978-9993691174. Retrieved 24 February 2014.

  • Winer, Jerome A.; James William Anderson (2003). Psychoanalysis and history. Routledge. pp. 200–201. ISBN 0-88163-399-2. Retrieved 2010-08-09.

  • "Pommaret, p. 192"


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