Shong ston rdo rje rgyal mtshan

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Translators

ཤོང་སྟོན་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་མཚན

Wylie	shong ston rdo rje rgyal mtshan
English Phonetics	Shongton Dorje Gyaltsen

Other names

• shong ston lo tsA ba rdo rje rgyal mtshan

Dates

Birth:	early 13th century
Death:	late 13th century
Place of birth:	Tolho (stod lho)

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Sakya

Teachers

mdo sde rgyal mtshan · Pakpa Lodro Gyeltsen · srag bde ba · sa dbang bzang po · laksmI ka ra · shes rab seng ge · seng ge rgyal mtshan

Students

Buton Rinchen Drub · blo gros brtan pa · Lotsāwa Chokden Lekpai Lodro · 'jam dbyangs ston gzhon

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1046

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Shongton-Dorje-Gyeltsen/2029

Wiki Pages

• Shong ston rdo rje rgyal mtshan on the DRL
• Shong ston rdo rje rgyal mtshan on the LIB
• Shong ston rdo rje rgyal mtshan on the BNW

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The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre.

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.