| Key Term |
Bodong |
| Hover Popup Choices |
Bodong; Bodong Tradition; |
| Featured People |
Bodong Paṇchen Chokle Namgyal, Orgyenpa Rinchen Pal, Bodong Sangye Gönpo |
| In Tibetan Script |
བོ་དོང་ |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration |
bo dong |
| Tibetan Phonetic Rendering |
Bodong |
| English Standard |
Bodong |
| Term Type |
School |
| Source Language |
Tibetan |
| Basic Meaning |
The Bodong tradition generally refers to the vast body of literature and activity stemming from Bodong Panchen Choklé Namgyal (1375/76-1451) and the monastery of Bodong E to the north of Sakya and the west of Narthang. |
| Definitions |
| Rangjung Yeshe's English Term |
The seat of the Bodong tradition Bodong E (བོ་དོང་ཨེ་), was founded in 1049 by the Kadampa Geshe Mudrapa Chenpo (མུ་དྲ་པ་ཆེན་པོ་). It is recorded that in the twelfth century, Kodrakpa Sonam Gyeltsen invited the Nepali yogin Vibhūticandra to Tibet and received from him a new transmission of the six-branch practice of the Kālacakra. |