Gyalse Tokme Zangpo

  

PersonType	Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon	Gyalse Tokme Zangpo
MainNameTib	རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་
MainNameWylie	rgyal sras thogs med bzang po
SortName	Tokme Zangpo
AltNamesTib	རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་  ·  ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་དཔལ་  ·  རྒྱལ་སྲས་དངུལ་ཆུ་ཐོགས་མེད་  ·  རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཆོས་རྫོང་པ་  ·  དཀོན་མཆོག་བཟང་པོ་  ·  བཟང་པོ་དཔལ་
AltNamesWylie	rgyal sras thogs med bzang po  ·  thogs med bzang po dpal  ·  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 Maitreya." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 60.
PosAllBuddha	Yes
PosAllBuddhaMoreNotes	"Gyelsé Tokmé equates the naturally purified dharma-body with the tathāgata-essence by arguing that it is precisely because the latter exists in all beings that one can claim that the former exists in all beings also. However, unlike Dölpopa, he never explicitly says in his commentary that sentient beings have a fully enlightened buddha within." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 62.
PosWheelTurn	Third Turning
PosWheelTurnNotes	Gyelsé Tokmé emphasizes that the last-wheel teachings teach the most definitive meaning of the Buddha's thought. He states, "This meaning, which is depicted by the nine examples in this way, is the profoundest of the profound, and it is the ultimate definitive meaning." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 61.
PosEmptyLumin	Tathāgatagarbha as the Latent State of Buddhahood that is Obscured in Sentient Beings
PosEmptyLuminNotes	Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 62.
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A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.

The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.

The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra.

Refers to a teaching that is literally true.