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The retreat was to be under the direction of the Very Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche, a close dharma brother of Trungpa Rinpoche and one of the foremost teachers in the Kagyü lineage.

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Then there is Chagdud Khandro, who is not a Tibetan, but after spending a long time with Chagdud Rinpoche, one of the most authentic Vajrayana masters, as a disciple and wife, she has demonstrated that she is a great practitioner able to inspire many disciples.

One of the most interesting is the Shangpa Kagyü, founded by a student of Naropa’s tantric consort Niguma, a person known as Khyungpo Naljorpa, the

Naropa consolidated Tilopa’s teachings in the well-known six yogas of Naropa (see chapter 11), a particularly important and distinctive part of the Kagyü heritage.

Naropa transmitted his lineage to Marpa (1012–1096), a Tibetan householder who had come to India in search of the dharma. Naropa

Standing in the background is the great fourteenth-century Nyingma scholar and yogin Longchenpa, who, for the first time, brought together the various doctrines and practices of the Ancient School into one grand and comprehensive synthesis.