Rechung Dorje Drakpa

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Rechung Dorje Drakpa (T. ras chung rdo rje grags pa རས་ཆུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲགས་པ་) or Rechungpa (T. ras chung pa རས་ཆུང་པ་) (1083/5-1161) was one of the main disciples of Jetsün Milarepa. In later biographies, he is mentioned as the second most important of Milarepa's students, the 'moon-like' disciple, with Gampopa being the foremost, and compared to the sun. Rechungpa, as his name suggests, was a cotton-clad yogin, unlike Gampopa who was a monk.

Primary students

• Sumpa aka Sumtön (Tib. སུམ་སྟོན་, Wyl. sum ston), Tsangpa Sumpa (Tib. གཙང་པ་སུམ་པ་, Wyl. gtsang pa sum pa) and Dampa Sumpa (Tib. དམ་པ་སུམ་པ་, Wyl. dam pa sum pa)
• Gyal-lo
• Yang-gön aka Tönpa Yangdak Pal
• Yeshe Lama (Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་བླ་མ་, Wyl. ye shes bla ma)

Writings

• White Rock Vajra Fortress

Further reading

Web publications:

• Ras_chung_pa, Tsadra Commons
• Rechungpa, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
• Rechung Dorje Drak, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
• Rechungpa Dorje Drakpa, Treasury of Lives

• TBRC profile

Print publications:

• Peter Alan Roberts, The Biographies of Rechungpa: The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography, Routledge, 2007
• Thrangu Rinpoche, Rechungpa: A Biography of Milarepa's Disciple, Namo Buddha Publications, 2002