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    The Kadampa were the first organized Tibetan school to place high emphasis on monastic life and discipline. They regarded the wandering, independent Nyingmapa adepts as more or less degenerate leftovers from the so-called "first diffusion" (before 836) of Buddhism into Tibet. The school more or less disappeared and merged - through the reformation by Tsongkapa - into the Gelugpa.

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    The Kadampa were the first organized Tibetan school to place high emphasis on monastic life and discipline. They regarded the wandering, independent Nyingmapa adepts as more or less degenerate leftovers from the so-called "first diffusion" (before 836) of Buddhism into Tibet. The school more or less disappeared and merged - through the reformation by Tsongkapa - into the Gelugpa.

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    Kadampa (Bound by Command)

    Inspired by Atisha (982-1054), one of


    the heads of Nalanda University, and
    founded by his pupil Bromston
    (1008-1064), the Kadampa were the first
    organized Tibetan school to place high
    emphasis on monastic life and
    discipline. Bromston founded the
    school's head monastery in 1057 at
    Reting (Rva-sgreng). They regarded the
    wandering, independent Nyingmapa adepts
    as more or less degenerate leftovers
    from the so-called "first diffusion"
    (before 836) of Buddhism into Tibet.
    After first having spawned three
    subdivisions known as Lamrimpa, Shungpa,
    and Mengapa, the school more or less
    disappeared and merged - through the
    reformation by Tsongkapa - into the
    Gelugpa; also known as 'New Kadampa' .
    Gampopa, founder of the Dagpo Kagyud,
    comes from a Kadampa background.
    The Kadampa are one of the so-called
    eight practice lineages.

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