Mahamudra and the Middle Way : Post Classical Kagyu Discourses on Mind, Emptiness and Buddha Nature Volume:Volume II and new beginnings into the and new beginnings into the lives of his devotees and invite divine blessings The tradition was also to some extent validated by the Dge lugs polymath Thuu kwan Chos kyi nyi ma (1737 1802) who followed a standard liber an rhetorical strategy of defending the purity of the early Bka' brgyud founders while accusing modern day proponents of various misinterpretations of their original teachings and increasingly so as the expansion of their institutional networks and doctrinal influence brought them into closer dialogue and confrontation with other ascendant Tibetan Buddhist schools