Acharya Sakyaprabha
Acharya Sakyaprabha was born into a royal caste between the seventh and eighth centuries in the western part of India. He became a monk and took the vow of bhikshu from Nalanda abbot Punyakirti. He studied three collections of Buddha teachings, relying on teachers like the Magadhan abbot Punyakirti and Acharya Shantiprabha, and became a supreme expounder of Vinaya texts. With Acharya Vajrahasa he studied tantric texts and became a great scholar known as Prabhahati, achieving supreme siddhis. In Nalanda monastic college, he composed vinaya texts such as the Three Hundred Stanzas and its auto-commentary Lustrous, and verses of instructions of the novice monk. These and others of his more than five volumes of texts are translated into Tibetan. He went to Kashmir and worked extensively for the welfare of beings. Being highly learned in vinaya, he expanded the Sangha and he trained many disciples abiding in the training of discipline who accomplished great works for the teachings and sentient beings, such as Sakyamitra, Acharya Padmasambhava, Jinamitra, and so forth. He had the vision of Shri Manjhughosha. From the six ornaments and two supreme ones that beautify the Jambu continent, Acharya Gunaprabha is known as one of the two supreme ones, worthy to sit on Buddha’s left side, because he thoroughly completed the study and contemplation of Buddha's treasure teachings of Vinaya. While working fervently for the discipline that forms the foundation of Buddha’s teachings, he passed into nirvana.
SthaviraNagasena
SthaviraNagasena resides on a major mountain in Rajgriha along with his retinue of 1200 Arhats. He holds a vase in his left hand and a mendicant’s staff in his right hand.He was born in a Kshatriyaroyal family in North India in a city called Vikshama Nagar.He was apprehensive about the unwholesome activities he may have to engage in if he assumed his royal responsibilities. He renounced his royal life. He received his Bhikshu ordination from the Buddha when the latter was 55 years old. He later attained the state of an Arhat.He is renowned as one who holds a treasurevase filled with precious jewels offered to him by the Gods from the Heaven of the Four Guardian Kings to fulfil the needs of his disciples.If one makes supplications to SthaviraNagasena one benefits from purification of major sins.
Chandrakirti
Chandrakirti was born in a Brahmin family Samandhar (modern day Kerala) in South India at the beginning of the sixthcentury. Astrologers prophesied that he would become a great being if he entered the Buddha’s teachings, so his parents sent him to Nalanda University. Because he was ordained with the abbot Chandranatha, he was given the name Chandrakirti. He gradually became fully ordained. He exhaustively studied the three pitakas and four tantric classes under the Acharyas Dharmapala and Chandranatha. He thoroughly learned Nagarjuna’s system of Madyamika, along with the pith instructions, from Buddhapalita’s disciple Kamalabuthi. By fervently applying himself to meditation day and night, before long he achieved direct visions of Manjushri and Nagarjuna and received many instructions from them. During his service to the Sangha, he drew a picture of a cow on a wall, milked it, and offered the to the Sangha. He became abbot of Nalanda University and had a vision of Arya Avalokiteshavara. For seven years he debated with Chandragomin. He was renowned as an emanation of Manjushri and Buddhapalita. He composed Entering the Middle Way and its autocommentary in accord with the thought of Nagarjuna, as well as Clear Words, a commentary on Root Wisdom, and other texts, thus initiating the Madyamika Consequentialist school. He also composed Clear Lamp, a commentary on the Guhyasamaja root tantra, about which scholars say, along with Clear Words, “in the sky are the sun and the moon; on the ground are the two Clears.” He composed about twenty complete eloquent treatises that were later translated into Tibetan and became important subjects for Tibetan scholars. He achieved supreme siddhis and lived quite a long life.
The Buddha Shakyamuni
The Buddha Śākyamuni was born in Lumbini in the noble land of India. He was born in a Kshatriya family. Gautama was his ancestral lineage. His radiance extended for one fathom. His father was Śuddhodana and his mother was Māyādevī. His son was Rāhula and his principal attendant was Ānanda. Amongst his disciples Upatissa was the most supreme in terms of wisdom., and Kolita for his miraculous powers. In his first assembly there were two hundred and fifty thousand monks. He lived for eighty years. The holy doctrine that he set into motion will last for five thousand years. His relics are still in the process of multiplying. All the present Buddhas should be illustrated by this
The three, MarpaLotsaba, Milaripa, and Dvags Po LhaRje.
1. MarpaLotsaba, the pioneer of the Kagyupa Tradition in Tibet. 2. Milaripa, the heart son of MarpaLotsaba. 3. The incomparable Dvags Po LhaRje. These are the pioneers or holders of the kagyupa Tradition.
Biography of TönpaShenrabMiw
TönpaShenrabMiwo was born c. 16,017 BCE near Mt. Kailash in Tibet. He was the son of BönThökar, King of Shangshung and his wife Gyalshema, an emanation of [the Bön goddess] Jamma. His father <rgya bon thodkar?> invited a Brahmin astrologer, who examined the boy and said he was an emanation dissimilar to other boys. He gave him the name “TönpaShenrabMiwo.” “Shen” was his clan name and “rab” implies “superior” or “protector.” “Miwo” means a person of great power. The understanding was that he was of a powerful class of men, born from the Shen clan <dmurus?>, and would be an unsurpassed teacher [Tönpa] or buddha. From when he was small his body held the position of a king, so he was renowned as “king of Shangshung.” Earlier the king had taken ten princesses as his wives, and from these were born ten royal children—eight princes and two princesses. Until age thirty-one he ruled over the large and small principalities of Shangshung (later these would be known as the thirty-eight principalities). He looked after the country based on the Bön principles of karmic cause and effect. He established the systems of the five disciplines, such as grammar, logic, craftsmanship and medicine, as the nine successive vehicles of Bön, thereby spreading the teachings of the Everlasting Bön<Buddha>. At the age of thirty-one he cut his own hair and went forth as a monastic, guarding the vows of monastic discipline. He performed austerities for nine years. He established the Four Bön Portals and the Fifth, The Treasury, externally the Vinayasutra, internally the secret mantra, and secretly BönDzokchen for the purpose of limitless beings striving for liberation, thereby guiding all beings of the six realms, as vast as space, in the path to happiness.
Eleven faced Avalokiteshvara according to Gelongma
Her middle face is white, right face looks green, left face is red. On top of it, middle face is green, right face is white and left face is red. On top of it, middle face looks red, right face is green and left face is white. These all faces are smiling. On top of it, black wrathful face to bare the fangs and it has three eyes , and orange coloured clotted hair is erected. He wears Brahmacharya dress. He joined palms together towards the heart. The right second hand holds the Rosary. The Third hand is in position of Mudra of supreme genoristy. The fourth takes Chakra.The left second hand brings golden lotus. The third holds water vessel. The fourth takes arrows and bow. The other nine hundred ninety two hands make offering. All hands have eyes in the bottom. He sit on lotus and moon in vajra postures.He wears precious jewels. His lower body is covered with fine clothes. His left chest is covered by skin of wild animals. The roots of all good qualities is compassion. The Dharmakaya and Rupakaya of Avaloketeshvara is the result of compassion being accomplished. he appeared himselft in the form of Buddha to teach how to cultivate compassion. If you sincerely devoted to him, your compassion increases and harm of all evil spirits will remove. He also has special compassion to protect beings and great powers.Besides the teachings transmitted from GyelongmaPelmo in Tibet, many other teachings of Avaloketeshvara also exist.
The three, buddha and his two main disciples.
Buddha Shakyamuni, the pioneer or the lord of Buddhism. 2. Śāriputra, one of the two chief disciples of Buddha who possesses sublime intelligence. 3. Maudgalyayana, one of the two chief disciples of Buddha possesses sublime paranormal abilities.
Red Lion-Face Dakini of the Sakya System
The Lion-Face Dakini of Wisdom has a red-colored body with one face and two arms. Her right hand holds a gold-colored curved-knife that she raises toward the sky. The left hand holds a blood-filled skull-cup at her heart. In the crook of her [left] elbow is a khatvanga. She has three eyes and her yellow hair streams upward. Five dry skulls ornament her crown and she wears a necklace of fifty moist human heads. She wears a tiger-skin lower garment and is ornamented with the five mudras. Upon a lotus and sun disc and two entwined prostrate <or supine—face down or back down?> male and female Rudras, with her right leg is bent and her left stretched out she stands amid a roaring mass of wisdom fire. This very wisdom dakini is far superior to others in granting blessings to bestow common and supreme siddhis by means of the four activities. Because she is particularly acclaimed for opposing both human and nonhuman curses, black magic and so forth, in Tibetan there are many rituals such as the Lion-Face Thousandfold Opposition, Lion-Face Subduing Wrath, and so forth.