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The first of the Five Treasuries that Jamgon Kongtrul began work on was the ten-volume Treasury of Kagyu Tantras (bka' brgyud sngags mdzod), a compendium of tantric liturgical texts based on material originally transmitted by Marpa Chokyi Lodro (mar pa chos kyi blo gros, 1012-1097) to his disciple Ngokton Choku Dorje (rngog ston chos sku rdo rje, 1036-1102), the lama to whom Milarepa (mi la ras pa, 1040-1123) once fled when Marpa refused to give him teachings ...
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... It was during this time that he met two of his chief disciples Ngokton Choku Dorje (rngog ston chos sku rdo rje, 1036-1097) and Tsurton Wangi Dorje (mtshur ston dbang gi rdo rje, d.u.) ...
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Tsurton is considered one of the "four pillars," Marpa's four main disciples, the other three being Milarepa, Meton Tsonpo Sonam Gyeltsen (mes ston tshon po bsod nams rgyal mtshan, d.u.) and Ngokton Choku Dorje (rngog ston chos sku rdo rje, 1036–1097) ...
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At Zhung Treuzhing (gzhung spre'u zhing), the birthplace of his great-grandfather Ngok Choku Dorje (rngog chos sku rdo rje, 1036-1097), he founded a monastic educational institution ...
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