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• Zhang ston bsod nams grags pa  + ([https://jonangfoundation.org/masters/shangt%C3%B6n-gyawo-s%C3%B6nam-drakpa Biography on Jonang Foundation Website])

• Daṇḍin  + ('''Dandin''', (flourished late 6th and ear … '''Dandin''', (flourished late 6th and early 7th centuries, Kanchipuram, India), Indian Sanskrit writer of prose romances and expounder on poetics. Scholars attribute to him with certainty only two works: the Dashakumaracharita, translated in 2005 by Isabelle Onians as What Ten Young Men Did, and the Kavyadarsha (“The Mirror of Poetry”).</br></br>The Dashakumaracharita is a coming-of-age narrative that relates stories of each of the 10 princes in their pursuit of love and their desire to reunite with their friends. The work is imbued both with realistic portrayals of human vice and with supernatural magic, including the intervention of deities in human affairs.</br></br>The Kavyadarsha is a work of literary criticism defining the ideals of style and sentiment appropriate to each genre of kavya (courtly poetry). It was a highly influential work and was translated into several languages, including Tibetan. Sanskrit scholar Sheldon Pollock wrote in this regard that “Dandin’s…[work] can safely be adjudged the most important work on literary theory and practice in Asian history, and, in world history, a close second to Aristotle’s Poetics.” </br>([http://www.britannica.com/biography/Dandin Source: Encylopedia Britannica])hy/Dandin Source: Encylopedia Britannica]))
• Bshes gnyen rnam rgyal  + ( *Teacher connected with the karma kaM tshang tradition *He wrote the continuation of the biography of dbus smyon kun dga' bzang po in 1537. )
• Rinchen Pel  + (14th century. Husband of bsod nam dpal 'dren and author of her biography.)
• Ngag dbang chos 'byor rgya mtsho  + (According to Filippo Brambilla, Ngawang Ch … According to Filippo Brambilla, Ngawang Chöjor Gyatso (Ngag dbang chos 'byor rgya mtsho) "was the fourth vajrācārya of gTsang ba [monastery], who had been one of ’Ba’ mda’ dge legs’ closest disciples." (Filippo Brambilla, "A Late Proponent of the Jo nang gZhan stong Doctrine: Ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho (1880–1940)" [''Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines'' 45 (2018)], 5–50).</br></br>Furthermore, Brambilla writes, Ngawang Chöjor Gyatso, along with several of the vajra masters of gTsang ba monastery (such as Ngag dbang chos ’phel rgya mtsho, Ngag dbang chos kyi ’phags pa, Kun dga’ mkhas grub dbang phyug, and ’Ba’ mda’ dGe legs himself, had a relationship with leading figures of the nonsectarian movement</br>like Jamgön Kongtrul (1813-1899) and Patrul Rinpoche (1808-1887), most of these Jonang scholars studying with them at dPal spung and rDzogs chen monasteries (Ibid., 11–12).nd rDzogs chen monasteries (Ibid., 11–12).)
• Rgyal thang pa bde chen rdo rje  + (Author of the dkar brgyud gser 'phreng that includes biographies of many prominent early Kagyu masters.)
• Pad+ma ye shes  + (He wrote an outer biography of Chogyur Lingpa, which he signs as Padma Jñāna and refers to himself as an old student of his.)
• Karmapa, 16th  + ([http://kagyuoffice.org/kagyu-lineage/the-golden-rosary/16th-karmapa/ Kagyu Office Biography])