Tsongkhapa

PersonType	Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon	Tsongkhapa
MainNameTib	ཙོང་ཁ་པ་
MainNameWylie	tsong kha pa
AltNamesTib	ཙོང་ཁ་པ་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ་  ·  བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པའི་དཔལ་  ·  བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ་
AltNamesWylie	tsong kha pa blo bzang grags pa  ·  blo bzang grags pa'i dpal  ·  blo bzang grags pa
BiographicalInfo	Assumes office 1409 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong) Leaves office 1419 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong) Founds monastery 1409 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong) Final Ordination 1381 yar klung rnam rgyal dgon
YearBirth	1357
YearDeath	1419
BornIn	tsong kha (Amdo)
TibDateGender	Female
TibDateElement	Fire
TibDateAnimal	Bird
TibDateRabjung	6
TibDateDeathGender	Female
TibDateDeathElement	Earth
TibDateDeathAnimal	Pig
TibDateDeathRabjung	7
ReligiousAffiliation	Geluk
ClassicalProfAff	Ganden Monastery
StudentOf	bsod nams rgyal mtshan  ·  Rendawa Zhönu Lodrö  ·  Nyawon Kunga Pal  ·  Chokle Namgyal  ·  sgra tshad pa rin chen rnam rgyal  ·  Fourth Karmapa Rolpai Dorje
TeacherOf	'dul 'dzin grags pa rgyal mtshan  ·  Gö Lotsāwa Zhönu Pal  ·  Jamyang Chöje Tashi Palden  ·  mkhas grub rje  ·  Gyaltsap Je Dharma Rinchen  ·  spyan nga bsod nams bzang po
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P64
Treasury of Lives	http://www.treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Tsongkhapa-Lobzang-Drakpa/8986
Himalayan Art Resources	https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=197
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa was one of the most influential Tibetan Buddhist scholars of the last millennium. Born in Amdo, he travelled to U-Tsang in his youth, never to return to his homeland. In U-Tsang he studied with numerous teachers of all traditions and engaged in many retreats resulting in his development of a fresh interpretation of Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka view and a reinvigoration of the monastic Vinaya. Widely regarded as an emanation of Mañjuśrī, Tsongkhapa composed eighteen volumes of works of which the majority dealt with tantric subjects. He was the founder of Ganden Monastery, which became the central monastery of the Geluk tradition that was founded on his teachings and writings.
PosWheelTurn	Second Turning
PosWheelTurnNotes	Wangchuk quotes mkhas grub rje as stating, "In our system, Jé Rinpoché (rje rin po che, that is, Tsongkhapa) mentions that the Uttaratantra primarily comments on the meaning of those sutras that are in conformity with the middle-wheel teachings, such as the Tathāgatagarbhasūtra, Samādhirājasūtra, Jnānālokasūtra, Aṅgulimālāsūtra, Śrīmālādevīsūtra, and so forth." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 89.
PosYogaMadhya	Madhyamaka
PosYogaMadhyaNotes	Note that Wangchuk maintains that he developed this certainty later in his career. He quotes his Golden Rosary of Excellent Exposition as stating that the Mind-Only presentation of buddha-nature as, "the viewpoint explicated in the Uttaratantra." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 90. Though he later quotes his presumably final stance as: "In his Illuminating the Thoughts of the Madhyamaka, Tsongkhapa clearly states, "The great master Asaṅga also did not explain the Uttaratantra according to the Cittamātra School, rather he explicated it according to the Madhyamaka School." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 93.
PosZhenRang	Rangtong
PosEmptyLumin	Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is a Non-implicative Negation (without enlightened qualities)
PosSvataPrasa	Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་)
PosSvataPrasaNotes	Wangchuk cites Tsongkhapa's students and commentators on this issue: He quotes mkhas grub rje as stating, "In our system, Jé Rinpoché (rje rin po che that is, Tsongkhapa) mentions that... The content of the Uttaratantra is in conformity with Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 89. And later on,, "Similarly, Chöwang Drakpé Pel states, "The All-knowing Jétsün (rje btsun, that is, Tsongkhapa) repeatedly made the roar of a lion amongst an assembly of scholars proclaiming that the ultimate view of the Abhisamayālamkāra and the Uttaratantra falls within the system of Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 89.
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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 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.

Though it is sometimes used synonymously with Yogācāra, it is in fact one of the more prominent philosophical theories associated with this school. It asserts that the objects in the external world with which we interact are actually mentally created representations appearing as those objects. The character of these perceptions is predetermined by our own karmic conditioning that is stored in the ālayavijñāna.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

The qualities or attributes of an enlightened being.