Kagyu School

The Kagyu School is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu, and Gelug. During the 11th century, the Kagyu school emerged, founded by the great Indian tantric master Naropa, brought to Tibet by the translator Marpa, and solidified as an established school by his disciple, Milarepa. Subsequently, the school subdivided into several branches, the largest of which is the Karma Kagyu sect. The Kagyu school tends to emphasize the dangers of intellectual abstractions, and therefore advises its followers to rely primarily on tantric practice.