TAKLUNG MONASTERY

In the southern region of darkness realm, the great righteous persons like Ugyen Pema Juney (Padma Sambhava) and Zhabdung Ngawang Namgyal visited and blessed all the environments and living beings. In this region, the Buddhism flourished like the sunlight in the darkness after which the famous Buddhist country known as Bhutan came into existence... Origin of the Kagyu lineage, according to the general view, Kagyupa means the one who holds and transmits the three precious buckets of teachings by the great lord Buddha through discourse and meditation. It also refers to the one who transmits the teachings of the chief yogi Tilopa(one who received all his teachings directly from vajradhara) as per unique view. And those who transmit the great stream of profound thoughts in which the advisory rivers of four teachers combined are also known as the great kagyupa.