Property:DatesNotes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
This is a property of type Text.
'
Jamgön Kongtrul passed away on the twenty-seventh day of the eleventh month of the earth-pig year of the fifteenth sexagenary cycle. Nesar Tashi Chöpel, who recorded the date, likely used the Tsurpu calendrical system, for which the Tibetan date would translate to December 29, 1899. The more commonly used Pukpa system had two eleventh months in the earth-pig year, leading scholars to give Kongtrul's death as falling either on December 29, 1899 (the first eleventh month), or January 28, 1900 (the second). +
Birth year: 1729/1730. +
Alternate death year is 1941. +
A
The dates for this master are uncertain, though it is generally assumed that he lived in the 4th or 5th centuries. +
B
Alternate dates given for his birth are 1900 and 1902. +
C
Birth date is based on the claim that he turned 100 years old on the 10th day of the 5th month in 2013 (June 18 according to the western calendar), which corresponds to July 13 in 1913. However, the dates of his birth seem to be unclear as there were discrepancies concerning his age when he passed away. +
alt. 684-762 +
D
Dates and place of birth from ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', Princeton University Press, 2014 +
Dates are from Tsering Wangchuk's dissertation, "The Uttaratantra in the Age of Argumentation." See p. 81. +
Alternative death dates are 1912 and 1919. +
G
fl. late 11th to 12th c. +
H
J
K
10th century +
Other dates of birth mentioned are 978 and 990. +
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism has 2 mentions of this figure. One says he flourished in the 7th century, the other mention says he flourished in the 8th century. See pages 518 and 886. +
L
13th century +
Year of death is uncertain. +
M
The above date of his passing is based on the assertion that he died shortly after being jailed during the Chinese invasion. However, there are apparently other reports that he actually remained in prison for twenty years and passed away sometime around 1980. +
N
*notes in colophon to his tshad ma rnam nges commentary that he wrote this in 1993, his 73rd year, which would mean that he must have been born in 1921
*the english introduction notes that he was born in 1923
*obituary in the khyentse foundation bulletin gives dates as 1921-2008
*Passed away on May 25, 2008
+
Alternative dates are 1136-1204 +
The dates for Nāropa here are from BDRC, https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P3085. However, other sources suggest earlier dates, with a date of birth of 956(?) and a date of death of 1040. Regarding the date of birth, see Newman, John. "The Epoch of the Kālacakra Tantra." Indo-Iranian Journal 41 (1998): 319-349.: 347, note 10.[1]. Regarding the date of death, see Wylie, T. "Dating the Death of Naropa." L. Hercus et al., eds. Indological and Buddhist Studies. Volume in Honour of Professor J.W. de Jong on his Sixtieth Birthday. Canberra, 1982. +
O
Year of his death is based on the notion that he died in his 60th year. +
P
BDRC dates this figure (naming him Parahitaprabha) in the 14th Century, though this is clearly mistaken based on what we know of his teachers and students. +
R
Dates from The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 2014. +
The dates 1042–1136 derive from BDRC. Alternative dates of 1012–1088 are given in ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'' (2014). +
There are no specific dates for this figure, though the estimate of his death is based on a statement in the biography of Thogs med bzang po that he passed away shortly after they met in 1345. +
S
Dates from The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 2014. +
T
* The birth year of 1884 is given in Tulku Thondup’s Masters of Meditation and Miracles. According to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20060603235457/http://www.khordong.de:80/Engl/Rinpoche/Khordong/khordong.html Khordong website] he died at the age of seventy-three. We know that he wrote the secret biography of Tertön Sogyal in 1942.
+
Dates are uncertain, but are roughly based on a mention of this figure in the colophon of a treasure of Nyag bla pad+ma bdud 'dul as well as in his biography in which is referred to as Rdzogs chen mkhan po shes rab mthar phyin. He is also seemingly mentioned in Kong sprul's commentary on the Lam rim ye shes snying po in which he is referred to as Byang sems dge ba'i bshes gnyen tshwa nyag bla ma shes rab. +
V
(1100–1200) +
W
BDRC has his birth in the early 11th century and his death in the late 11th century. Treasury of Lives has him in the eighth century. +