Patsab Lotsāwa Nyima Drakpa

PersonType	Category:Lotsawas
MainNamePhon	Patsab Lotsāwa Nyima Drakpa
MainNameWylie	pa tshab lo tsA ba nyi ma grags pa
BiographicalInfo	Patsab Lotsāwa Nyima Drakpa was a major translator of Madhyamaka texts into Tibet. A a monk of Sangpu Monastery, he traveled in in Kashmir to work with paṇḍitas such as X and Y. Among his translations are Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Āryadeva's Catuhśataka-śāstra (Four Hundred Verses), and Candrakīrti's Madhyamakāvatāra. His commentary on the Nagarjuna is possibly the earliest Tibetan exegesis of the work. In Tibet he is considered the founder of the Prasangika school of Madhyamaka.
YearBirth	1055
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P5651
Treasury of Lives	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/nyi-ma-grags/8194
IsInGyatsa	No
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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.

Sangpu Neutok is an important monastery in central Tibet, just south of Lhasa, that was founded in 1072 by Ngok Lekpai Sherab, a disciple of Atiśa, and developed by his nephew, Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab. Originally a Kadam monastery with two colleges, it evolved into a monastery that includes both Sakya and Geluk traditions. At its peak in the 11th to 14th centuries, it was one of the most highly esteemed centers for monastic education and the study of Buddhist philosophy in all of the Tibetan plateau. Many influential philosophers of the time studied there.