Kagyu

Founded the institutional basis of what became the Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

The Karmapa he received at Nanjing in 1407 heads this school, and the title he granted is still part of its history.

Karma Kagyu is the largest sub-school of the Kagyu lineage; contained-in replaces the level-skipping edge to Tibetan Buddhism.

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The text belongs to the shared Indian inheritance of the Tibetan schools and is taught in the Kagyu curriculum.

Held in the Kagyu shedras for the same scholarly qualification.

The staged path literature is common to the Tibetan schools while this recension is the Gelug one, so it is read across the boundary rather than owned within it.

The Karmapas are held to be emanations of Avalokiteshvara, whose mantra this is, so the recitation and the lineage make the same claim.

Buddhahood attainable within a single lifetime through tantric method is affirmed in this school.

Buddha-nature is central to Kagyu teaching, and the Ratnagotravibhaga is read there as a direct statement of it rather than as a provisional one.

Senior leadership office of Kagyu.

Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation is a stages-of-the-path text, and the Kagyu school carries a graduated curriculum alongside its mahamudra instruction.

Mahamudra, direct realization of the mind's nature as empty, luminous and unfabricated, is this school's signature teaching.

LACMA's own catalogue identifies the lamas' headwear in this painting as specific to the Drukpa subsect of the Kagyupa order, and its subject is the Kagyu lineage's own founding poet saint.

The two truths are affirmed, and how the ultimate is to be characterised is the point at which the school's internal disagreement opens.

Tantric practice, including the Mahamudra completion-stage methods restricted to initiates, is central to this school.

The Kagyu lineages were established in Tibet from Indian transmissions.

The three poisons are held in the Kagyu school.

Not-self is held in the Kagyu school.

Impermanence is held in the Kagyu school and stands among the four thoughts that turn the mind.

The intermediate state is held in the Kagyu school, and the six yogas transmitted from Naropa include instructions addressed directly to it.

The bodhisattva motivation is held in the Kagyu school and is generated formally in the preliminary practices.

Giving is held in the Kagyu school as the first of the perfections.

Dependent origination is held in the Kagyu school.

Dharma is held in the Kagyu school in the Mahayana sense, with the tantras counted among the Buddha's word.

Suffering is held in the Kagyu school as the first of the four truths.

Karma is held in the Kagyu school.

Nirvana is held in the Kagyu school, with full buddhahood rather than cessation alone as the goal the path is set toward.

Collected absorption is held in the Kagyu school, and the mahamudra instructions are given in terms of calm abiding and insight before they are given in their own terms.

Samsara is held in the Kagyu school, and its defects are contemplated among the four preliminary thoughts.

Shentong held in currents within the school rather than as its settled position.

The five aggregates are held in the Kagyu school.

The four immeasurables are held in the Kagyu school.

The four truths are held in the Kagyu school.

The eightfold path is held in the Kagyu school.

The six realms are held in the Kagyu school.

The six sense bases are held in the Kagyu school.

The three jewels and going for refuge are held in the Kagyu school, and the preliminary practices begin with a hundred thousand prostrations taken while going for refuge.

The three marks are held in the Kagyu school.

The three realms of desire, form and the formless are held in the Kagyu school.

The perfections are held in the Kagyu school as the common path.

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