Kun dga' ye shes rgya mtsho

Kun dga' ye shes rgya mtsho on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors

ཀུན་དགའ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

Wylie	Kun dga' ye shes rgya mtsho
English Phonetics	Kunga Yeshe Gyatso

 

Other names

• རྒྱལ་ཚབ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
• རྗེ་དྲུང་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

• Rgyal tshab ye shes rgya mtsho
• Rje drung ye shes rgya mtsho

Dates

Birth:	16th/17th century

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Jonang

Teachers

TA ra nA tha · Kun dga' rin chen rgya mtsho

Students

Byams pa yon tan mgon po · Snying po mtha' yas · Kun bzang dbang po

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Links

BDRC Link (P2790)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P2790

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/ye-shes-rgya-mtsho/P2790

Wiki Pages

• Kun dga' ye shes rgya mtsho on the DRL
• Kun dga' ye shes rgya mtsho on the LIB
• Kun dga' ye shes rgya mtsho on the DNZ
• Kun dga' ye shes rgya mtsho on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

Kunga Yeshe Gyatso was a Jonangpa scholar who lived in the 16th to 17th centuries. His teachers were Tāranātha (1575–1634) and Kunga Rinchen Gyatso. He is the author of a collection of annotations on Tāranātha's Dbu ma theg mchog among other works.

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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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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.