Zur mang pad+ma rnam rgyal

Zur mang pad+ma rnam rgyal on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors

ཟུར་མང་པདྨ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་

Wylie	zur mang pad+ma rnam rgyal
English Phonetics	Zurmang Pema Namgyal

Other names

• ཟུར་མང་མཁན་པོ་པདྨ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་
• པདྨ་བི་ཛ་

• zur mang mkhan po pad+ma rnam rgyal
• pad+ma bi dza

Alternate names

• Surmang Padma Namgyal

Dates

Birth:	20th Century

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Kagyu; Nyingma

Primary Professional Affiliation

zur mang rnam rgyal rtse'i bshad grwa

Other Professional Affiliation

shrI sing ha chos grwa; dpal spungs thub bstan chos 'khor gling

Teachers

gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba · Tai Situpa, 11th

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Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P5784

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/pad+ma-rnam-rgyal/P5784

Wiki Pages

• Zur mang pad+ma rnam rgyal on the DRL
• Zur mang pad+ma rnam rgyal on the LIB
• Zur mang pad+ma rnam rgyal on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

An esteemed 20th century Kagyu master from Zurmang Monastery in eastern Tibet with strong ties to the Nyingma and Ri-me traditions. He was a student of the 11th Tai Situ and the famed Khenpo Zhenga with whom he studied at the Śrī Siṃha monastic university at Dzogchen Monastery. His pedogical manual (yig cha) for the latter's interlinear commentaries to the thirteen major Indian treatises came to form an important part of the curriculum at the monastic university at Dzongsar Monastery.

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All beings have Buddha-nature
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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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.

The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.

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.