Dharmapala

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Resource ID P451
Date of Birth 10~11th c.? Date of Death Unknown

Name Variants

d+harma pha la / d+harmA pha la
ra ma pha la / ra ma phA la
ra ma pA la (in deb ther sngon po)

Students

Khyungpo Neljor

Notes

According to the biography of Khyungpo Neljor, they met "in the east" during the second trip of Khyungpo Neljor to India. Dharmapala transmitted him: phyag rgya chen po gsang ba grub pa.

ཤར་ལྗོན་ཤིང་ཀུ་ཤའི་ཚལ་དུ། དཔལ་དྷརྨ་ཕ་ལ་ལ་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་གསང་བ་གྲུབ་པ་ཞུས་སོ།

"In the eastern expanse of Kuśa (kuśavana, ku sha'i tshal), I requested the secret accomplishment of mahāmudrā from the glorious Dharmapāla."