'jam mgon kong sprul

PersonType	Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNameTib	འཇམ་མགོན་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ་
MainNameWylie	'jam mgon kong sprul
AltNamesTib	བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་  ·  འཇམ་མགོན་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ་བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་  ·  ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་  ·  ཀུ་སཱ་ལི་བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་  ·  པདྨ་གར་དབང་བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་  ·  པདྨ་གར་དབང་ཕྲིན་ལས་འགྲོ་འདུལ་རྩལ་  ·  ཀརྨ་ངག་དབང་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་  ·  འཇམ་མགོན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་  ·  ཀརྨ་ངང་དབང་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཕྲིན་ལས་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་  ·  ཀུ་སཱ་ལི་ཀརྨ་ངག་དབང་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཕྲིན་ལས་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་
AltNamesWylie	blo gros mtha' yas  ·  'jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas  ·  yon tan rgya mtsho  ·  ku sA li blo gros mtha' yas  ·  pad+ma gar dbang blo gros mtha' yas  ·  pad+ma gar dbang phrin las 'gro 'dul rtsal  ·  karma ngag dbang yon tan rgya mtsho blo gros mtha' yas  ·  'jam mgon chos kyi rgyal po  ·  karma ngag dbang yon tan rgya mtsho phrin las kun khyab dpal bzang po  ·  ku sA li karma ngag dbang yon tan rgya mtsho phrin las kun khyab dpal bzang po
AltNamesOther	Lodro Thaye  ·  Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye  ·  Yonten Gyatso  ·  Kusali Lodro Thaye  ·  Padma Garwang  ·  Chimey Tennyi Yungdrung Lingpa  ·  Padma Garwang Lodro Thaye  ·  Padma Garwang Trinley Drodul Tsal  ·  Karma Ngawang Yonten Gyatso Lodro Thaye  ·  Jamgön Chökyi Gyalpo
BiographicalInfo	Alexander Gardner's Note on the dates of Kongtrul: According to Kongtrul’s disciple Nesar Karma Tashi Chopel, who wrote an account of Kongtrul’s last years and death, Kongtrul died on the 27th day of the 11th month of the earth pig year. The problem is that there were two 11th months in the earth pig year of the fifteenth sexegenary cycle, but Tashi Chopel doesn’t acknowledge that, so no one knows which eleventh month he meant! That equals either December 29, 1899, or January 28th, 1900. There are two online calendar converters: http://www.tibastro.be/Calendar/WestToTibDate http://www.digitaltibetan.org/cgi-bin/phugpa.pl Jamgon Kongtrul Yonten Gyatso ('jam mgon kong sprul yon tan rgya mtsho) was born at Rongyab (rong rgyab) in the Derge kingdom in Kham, on December 14, 1813, the water-bird year of the fourteenth sexagenary cycle. The identity of his father is somewhat of an open question. At his birth he was identified as a Bon priest named Sonam Pel (bsod nams 'phel). Yet Kongtrul claims in his diary, which has been skillfully translated into English by Richard Barron, that his father was in fact Lama Yungdrung Tendzin (bla ma g.yung drung bstan 'dzin), a member of the prestigious Khyung (khyung) clan. His mother's name was Tashi Tso (bkra shis mtsho). Soon after his birth, it is said that his parents were given a prophecy by Yungdruk Puntsok (g.yung drung phun tshogs), also called Tarde Tokden (thar bde rtogs ldan), who said that the child would be a great Bodhisattva blessed by Padmasambhava. (Read more at TOL...)
YearBirth	1813/12/14
YearDeath	1900/01/28
BornIn	rong rgyab
ReligiousAffiliation	Karma Kagyu
Has emanations	Jamgön Kongtrul Khyentse Özer
BDRC	http://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P264
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Names

Tibetan: འཇམ་མགོན་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ་
Tibetan: བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་
Wylie:

• Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye
• blo gros mtha' yas
• 'jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas
• yon tan rgya mtsho
• 'jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas yon tan rgya mtsho
• ku sA li blo gros mtha' yas
• pad+ma gar dbang blo gros mtha' yas
• pad+ma gar dbang phrin las 'gro 'dul rtsal
• karma ngag dbang yon tan rgya mtsho blo gros mtha' yas
• 'jam mgon chos kyi rgyal po - Syn. for Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thaye (from rangjung yeshe)
• karma ngag dbang yon tan rgya mtsho phrin las kun khyab dpal bzang po
• ku sA li karma ngag dbang yon tan rgya mtsho phrin las kun khyab dpal bzang po

Other Transliterations in use:

• Jamgon Kongtrul
• Jamgön Kongtrül
• Lodro Thaye
• Lodrö Thayé
• Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye
• Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé
• Yonten Gyatso
• Yönten Gyatso
• Kusali Lodro Thaye
• Padma Garwang
• Tertön name: Padma / Chimey Tennyi Yungdrung Lingpa.
• Padma Garwang Lodro Thaye
• Padma Garwang Trinley Drodul Tsal
• Karma Ngawang Yonten Gyatso Lodro Thaye
• Jamgön Chökyi Gyalpo

Dates

Born: 1813 at rong rgyab
Died: 1899

Affiliation

• Karma Kagyu
• Jamgön Kongtrül

Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID: P264

Biography from kagyuoffice.org

Biography from kagyu.org

Biography from jamgonkongtrul.org

Noted that kong sprul received the bka' ma transmission of the rgyud bzhi from 'dzi sgar mchog sprul phrin las lhun grub bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan.
The founder of the ris med tradition together with 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po and mchog gyur bde chen gling pa. They brought forth a revival of Buddhist culture in eastern Tibet.
Kongtrul the Great was born into a bon po family.
His father was killed in one of the many wars that raged in khams during the times.

From Rangjung yeshe: He was one of the most prominent Buddhist masters in the 19th century and placed special focus upon a non-sectarian attitude. Renowned as an accomplished master, scholar and writer, he authored more than 100 volumes of scriptures. The most well known are his Five Treasuries, among which are the 63 volumes of the Rinchen Terdzö, the terma literature of the one hundred great tertöns. [ry]

Main Students

• blo bzang chos 'byor lhun grub
• mi pham rgya mtsho
• blo gter dbang po
• ngag dbang dam chos rgya mtsho
• Fifteenth Karmapa Khakhyab Dorje (mkha' khyab rdo rje)
• shAkya shrI
• thub bstan chos kyi rdo rje
• chos kyi rgya mtsho
• ngag dbang legs pa
• bkra shis 'od zer
• bsod nams chos 'grub
• kun bzang rnam rgyal
• thub bstan rgyal mtshan 'od zer
• shes rab chos kyi snang ba
• mdo sngags bstan 'dzin
• rig 'dzin gar gyi dbang phyug
• nor bu bstan 'dzin
• o rgyan bstan 'dzin
• karma nges don snying po
• kun dga' nges don zhabs pa
• mi pham chos kyi byams pa
• ngag dbang chos 'phel
• 'dzong bo skyabs mgon
• karma chos kyi nyin byed
• thub bstan legs bshad bzang po
• bkra shis chos 'phel
• thub bstan snyan grags
• padma theg mchog bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan
• bstan 'dzin grags pa
• 'gro 'dul dpa' bo rdo rje
• 'jigs med bstan pa'i nyi ma
• pad+ma rnam rgyal
• o rgyan 'jigs bral chos dbyings rdo rje
• gzu ru dkon mchog bstan 'dzin

Main Teachers

• Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
• 'gyur med mthu stobs rnam rgyal
• Ninth Tai Situpa Pema Nyinje Wangpo (pad+ma nyin byed dbang po)
• Fourteenth Karmapa Tekchok Dorje (theg mchog rdo rje)
• mchog gyur gling pa
• mi 'gyur dbang rgyal
• nges don bstan pa rab rgyas
• gtsug lag chos kyi rgyal po
• bsod nams blo gros
• karma theg mchog bstan 'phel
• sgrub brgyud bstan 'dzin 'phrin las
• ye shes nyi ma
• pad+ma bstan 'phel
• karma gzhan phan 'od zer
• karma nor bu
• karma 'od gsal 'gyur med
• 'gyur med bstan 'dzin 'phel rgyas
• rig 'dzin rgya mtsho
• mdo sngags bstan 'dzin
• dbang chen dgyes rab rdo rje
• thub bstan rgyal mtshan
• mi 'gyur nam mkha'i rdo rje tshe dbang grub pa rtsal

Writings About 'jam mgon kong sprul

From TBRC:

• 'dus shes gsum ldan spong ba pa'i gzugs brnyen pad+ma gar gyi dbang phyug phrin las 'gro 'dul rtsal gyi rtogs pa brjod pa dum bu smrig rgyu'i bdud rtsi
• blo gros mtha' yas gtso bor bzhugs pa'i rgya mtsho lnga'i dkyil 'khor chen po mchod cing sgrub pa'i rim pa rnam grol mchog ster
• phyogs med ris med kyi bstan pa la 'dren shing dge sbyong gi gzugs brnyan 'chang ba blo gros mtha' yas kyi sde'i 'byung ba brjod pa nor bu sna tshogs mdog can
• phyogs med ris med kyi bstan pa la 'dren shing dge sbyong gi gzugs brnyan 'chang ba blo gros mtha' yas kyi sde'i 'byung ba brjod pa nor bu sna tshogs mdog can
• rgya chen bka' mdzod kyi dkar chag
• rje kun gzigs 'jam mgon ngag gi dbang phyug yon tan rgya mtsho'i zhabs kyi 'das rjes kyi rnam par thar pa ngo mtshar nor bu'i snang ba

Writings

The Five Treasuries (mdzod lnga) include:
1) rin chen gter mdzod - these volumes include the master's anthology of important examples of the rediscovered teachings of the rnying ma gter ma tradition arranged by the structure of the initiation and functional topic. These sections include 'jam mgon kong sprul's writings on the rnying ma gter ma tradition.
2) gdams ngag mdzod
3) bka' brgyud sngags mdzod
4) shes bya mdzod or shes bya kun khyab
5) rgya chen bka' mdzod (sometimes called the thun mong ma yin pa'i mdzod)
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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.

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 Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.

In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas.

The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.