Shamarpa, 5th

Shamarpa, 5th on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors

དཀོན་མཆོག་ཡན་ལག་

Wylie	dkon mchog yan lag
English Phonetics	Fifth Shamarpa Könchok Yenlak

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Other names

• ཞྭ་དམར་ལྔ་པ་
• དཀོན་མཆོག་འབངས་
• ཟླ་བ་ཆུ་སྐྱེས་
• སྤྱན་སྔ་དཀོན་མཆོག་འབངས་

• zhwa dmar lnga pa
• dkon mchog 'bangs
• zla ba chu skyes
• spyan snga dkon mchog 'bangs

Alternate names

• Shamarpa, 5th

Dates

Birth:	1525
Death:	1583
Place of birth:	kong po sa stod rkyen zhol mo che dga' ldan khang gsar

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Female
Element	Wood
Animal	Bird
Rab Jyung	9

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Karma Kagyu

Is emanation of

Fourth Shamarpa Chodrak Yeshe

Teachers

Pawo Rinpoche, 2nd · Karmapa, 8th · Zhig po gling pa

Students

Karmapa, 9th · Goshir Gyaltsab, 4th

Other Biographical info:

One of the greatest names in the karma kaM tshang tradition.

• 1538 - Received teachings from dpa' bo 2 gtsug lag 'phreng ba.
• 1538 - Took rab byung vows from mi bskyod rdo rje.
• 1539 - Installed at yangs pa can.
• 1542 - Final monastic ordination.
• 1542 - Studies with stag lung mkhas mchog ngag dbang grags pa.
• 1546 - Solitary retreat at tsA ri tra.
• 1561 - Installs dbang phyug rdo rje at mtshur phu and confers teachings.

His gsung 'bum is about 8 volumes. (Source: BDRC)

Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1426

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/The-Fifth-Zhamarpa,-Konchok-Yenlag/P1426

Wiki Pages

• Shamarpa, 5th on the DRL
• Shamarpa, 5th on the LIB
• Shamarpa, 5th on the RTZ
• Shamarpa, 5th on the BNW

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The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.