Schools of Tibetan Buddhism: Kagyu, Dzogchen, Nyingma, Bon, Ground of Being, Nyingma Gyubum, Rime Movement, Kadam, Drukpa Lineage, Sakya, Gelug

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Kagyu, Dzogchen, Nyingma, Bon, Ground of Being, Nyingma Gyubum, Rime movement, Kadam, Drukpa Lineage, Sakya, Gelug, Dagpo Kagyu, Sarma. Excerpt: The Kagyu, Kagyupa, or Kagyud (Tibetan: Wylie: bka’ brgyud pa) school, also known as the Oral Lineageor Whispered Transmission school, is today regarded as one of four main schools (chos lugs) of Himalayan or Tibetan Buddhism, the other three being the Nyingma, Sakya, and Gelug. Along with the later two the Kagyu is classified as one of the Sarma or New Transmissionschools since it primarily follows the Vajray na or Tantric teachings based on the so-called New Tantrasi.e. those which were translated during the second diffusion of the Buddha Dharma in Tibet. Like all schools of Tibetan Buddhism the Kagyu consider their practices and teachings to be inclusive of the full range of Buddha’s teachings (or three y na) since they follow the fundamental teachings and vows of individual liberation & monastic discipline (Pratimoksha) which accord with the Mulasarvastivada tradition of the r vakay na (sometimes called Nik ya Buddhism or H nay na); the Bodhisattva teachings, vows of universal liberation and philosophy of the Mah y na; and the profound means and samaya pledges of the Secret Mantra Vajray na. What differentiates the Kagyu from the other schools of Himalayan Buddhism are primarily the particular esoteric instructions and tantras they emphasize and the lineages of transmission which they follow. Due to the Kagyu tradition’s particularly strong emphasis on guru devotion and guru yoga, and the personal transmission of esoteric instructions (dam ngag or man ngag) from master to disciple, the early Kagyu tradition soon gave rise to a bewildering number of independent sub-schools or sub-sects centered round individual charismatic Kagyu teachers and the hereditar…