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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Tibetan Buddhist Teachers, Deities and other Spiritual beings

Jampal Dragpa in Tibetan is another name for Mañjuśrīkīrti—one of the “Twenty-Five Kalkis” (Tibetan: rigs ldan) as well as the “Thirty-two kings of Shambhala”, according to the Tibetan oral recounting and written texts such as the Kalachakra Tantra (kālacakratantra), dealing with the Buddhist conception of the end of the world and time.—The Tibetan mythic land (the kingdom of Shambhala) is a parallel world invisible and inaccessible to common people which is closely related to the teaching about the Wheel of Time (dus 'khor). The seven Dharmarajas and twenty-five Kulikas [e.g., jampal dragpa] are the traditional rulers of Shambhala, passing on the reign from father to son.

Source: MUNI Arts: Kalachakra and the twenty-five Kulika kings of Shambhala

Rigden Jampal Dragpa refers to one of the Twenty-five Kulikas as well as one of the traditional Shambhala rulers.—His attributes are a book (Sanskrit: pustaka; Tibetan poti [po ti] or legbam [glegs bam], pecha [dpe cha]) and a sword (Sanskrit: asi, khaḍga, Tibetan raldri [ral sgri])—as the only figure in the list possessing these two attributes. Mañjuśrīkīrti is together with the last Shambhala King Rudracakrī [Rudra Chakrin] a manifestation of the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī. The book is in this case Tibetan religious text which is in an ornately carved wooden book cover (Sanskrit pustakāṣṭha; Tibetan legshing [glegs shing]).

Rigden Jampal Dragpa is known in Tibetan (wylie) as (1) rigs ldan 'jam dpal grags pa; (2) jam dbyangs grags); and in Sanskrit as: Kulika Mañjuśrīkīrti, Mañju Yaśas.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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