Kargyut-pa

Kargyut-pa ; One of the principal schools of Tibetan Bsm., founded in the eleventh century by Marpa, and his famous pupil Milarepa (q.v.). Known as the

semi-reformed school as compared with the Reformed School of Tsong-khapa (fourteenth century), which he called the Gelug-pa, ‘the Virtuous Ones’, and the

Nyingma-pa or unreformed school now largely found in Nepal, Sikkim and Kham, whose patron saint is Padmasambhava. In the Kargyut-pa stress is laid on long

periods of meditation. Lacking the strong monastic discipline and orthodox tradition of the Gelug-pas, it has produced great minds and great

achievement while in its lower ranks descending to the level of the unreformed Nyingmapas.

Its members may marry. See Evans-Wentz, Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa (1928).

(See Tibetan Buddhism, Schools of.)