Ritropa Zangpo Drakpa was a fourteenth-century treasure revealer who is most well-known for discovering The Supplication in Seven Chapters and for transmitting a set of treasure scrolls to Rigdzin Godemchen. Although Zangpo Drakpa himself was trained in the Dakpo Kagyu Order, his treasures are foundational for the Jangter or "Northern Treasures" of the Nyingma tradition. As the title "Ritropa" suggests, Zangpo Drakpa was a homeless, mountain-wandering hermit; he appears to have spent most of his life in Southern Lato and western Tsang. ... read more at
