Tokme Zangpo
Thogs med bzang po
| PersonType | Category:Classical Tibetan Authors |
|---|---|
| MainNamePhon | Tokme Zangpo |
| MainNameTib | ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་ |
| MainNameWylie | thogs med bzang po |
| AltNamesTib | ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་དཔལ་ · རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་ · རྒྱལ་སྲས་དངུལ་ཆུ་ཐོགས་མེད་ · རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཆོས་རྫོང་པ་ · དཀོན་མཆོག་བཟང་པོ་ · བཟང་པོ་དཔལ་ |
| AltNamesWylie | thogs med bzang po dpal · rgyal sras thogs med bzang po · rgyal sras dngul chu thogs med · rgyal sras chos rdzong pa · dkon mchog bzang po · bzang po dpal |
| YearBirth | 1295 |
| YearDeath | 1369 |
| BornIn | phul byung brag skya (sa skya) |
| TibDateGender | Female |
| TibDateElement | Wood |
| TibDateAnimal | Sheep |
| TibDateRabjung | 5 |
| ReligiousAffiliation | Kadam |
| TeacherOf | red mda' ba gzhon nu blo gros · 'jam dbyangs don yod rgyal mtshan |
| BDRC | https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1830 |
| Treasury of Lives | https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Gyelse-Tokme-Zangpo/3153 |
| IsInGyatsa | No |
| BnwShortPersonBio | Gyalse Tokme Zangpo was a Kadampa master of the fourteenth century based at Ngulchu Monastery where he sat in retreat for twenty years. He had previously served as the abbot of Bodong E for about nine years, from 1326 to 1335. Significant in the transmission of Lojong teachings, his compositions include the famous Thirty-seven Practices of the Bodhisattva, one of the classics of Tibetan buddhist literature. A specialist in tantric Mahākaruṇā, he was a disciple of Butön Rinchen Drup and a teacher of Rendawa Zhönu Lodrö, and is counted as seventy-third in the Lamrim lineage. |
| PosBuNayDefProv | Definitive |
| PosBuNayDefProvNotes | Wangchuk quotes Tokme's praise of the Uttaratantra, which states:
"Endowed with the essence of stamens of the ultimate
definitive meaning,
Is this lotus grove of the teaching of the Lord Maitreva." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 60. |
| PosAllBuddha | Yes |
| PosAllBuddhaMoreNotes | Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 62. |
| PosWheelTurn | Third Turning |
| PosEmptyLumin | Tathagatagarbha as the Dharmakaya |
| PosEmptyLuminNotes | Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 62. |
| Other wikis |
"Tathagatagarbha as the Dharmakaya" is not in the list (Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature, Tathāgatagarbha as the Unity of Emptiness and Luminosity, Tathāgatagarbha as a Causal Potential or Disposition (gotra), Tathāgatagarbha as the Resultant State of Buddhahood, There are several types of Tathāgatagarbha, Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is a Non-implicative Negation (without enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is an Implicative Negation (with enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Latent State of Buddhahood that is Obscured in Sentient Beings, Tathāgatagarbha was Taught Merely to Encourage Sentient Beings to Enter the Path) of allowed values for the "PosEmptyLumin" property.