[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: The Practicing Lineage, Part One

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

June 6, 2009

THE PRACTICING LINEAGE, PART ONE

There are four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. 
The Practicing Lineage or the Kagyu Lineage is 
one of the middle schools, which came after the 
old, or ancient, schools.The Kagyu lineage 
developed through various Tibetan masters and 
scholars who visited India and received teachings 
there and then returned to establish their 
particular situation in Tibet. Namely, there was 
the famous translator-saint Marpa, who visited 
India three times and brought the teachings he 
received there to Tibet. His disciple Milarepa 
was the greatest yogic poet of Tibet, or shall we 
say, singer-poet. We could call him the first 
Tibetan blues singer. And then there was his 
disciple Gampopa, and then Gampopa's descendants 
established the lineage of the Karmapas. At this 
point, the lineage of the Kagyu, the Practicing 
Lineage, consists of something like forty-five 
generations — up to the time of the Eleventh 
Trungpa, whoever he might be! (Chogyam Trungpa was the Eleventh Trungpa.)

 From "The Practicing Lineage," in THE MISHAP 
LINEAGE: Transforming Confusion into Wisdom. Just 
published by Shambhala Publications.

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Teachings by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, taken from 
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