Ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho

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Classical Tibetan Authors

ངག་དབང་ཚོགས་གཉིས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

Wylie	ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho
English Phonetics	Ngawang Tsoknyi Gyatso

Other names

• འཛམ་ཐང་མཁན་པོ་ཚོགས་གཉིས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
• ཚོགས་གཉིས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

• 'dzam thang mkhan po tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho
• tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho

Dates

Birth:	1880
Death:	1940
Place of birth:	rab kha grong sde ('Dzam thang, A mdo.)

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Female
Element	Iron
Animal	Dragon
Rab Jyung	15

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender	Male
Element	Iron
Animal	Dragon
Rab Jyung	16

About

Religious Affiliation

Jonang

Teachers

thub bstan dge legs rgya mtsho · 'dzong bo skyabs mgon · ngag dbang chos 'dzin

Students

blo gros grags pa · smon lam bzang po · ngag dbang bsod nams bzang po · gsang sngags rgya mtsho

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Links

BDRC Link (P7843)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P7843

Wiki Pages

• Ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho on the DRL
• Ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho on the LIB
• Ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

Tsoknyi Gyatso [was] a scholar of the Jonang tradition who was considered an incarnation of one of Dolpopa’s major disciples, Nyawon Kunga Pal (1285-1364) . . . Tsoknyi Gyatso’s writings are not only intriguing and perplexing because they present a specific species of zhentong, but they are important because they disclose to us the intentional workings of a major Jonang scholar during a fascinating period in far eastern Tibetan history. As a disciple of the great Jonang master from Dzamthang, Bamda Thubten Gelek Gyatso (1844-1904), Tsoknyi Gyatso was undoubtedly exposed to a rich nexus of views. Having lived at the crossroads of intellectual exchange during the height of the Rimé eclectic movement in Kham, Bamda Gelek studied with masters including Jamgon Kongtrul (1813-1899), Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820-1892), Dza Patrul (1808-1887) and his Geluk teacher Akon. With these mentors close to his own teacher’s heart, it is safe to infer that Tsoknyi Gyatso was not only versed in the mainstream zhentong works of his own tradition from authors such as Dolpopa and Taranatha, but that he most likely inherited ways of thinking through alternative presentations of emptiness. (Source Accessed October 23, 2019)

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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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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 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 state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.

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.