Bsod nams rgyal mtshan

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Classical Tibetan Authors

བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

Wylie	bsod nams rgyal mtshan
English Phonetics	Sönam Gyaltsen

Other names

• བཙུན་པ་བསོད་ནམས་
• བླ་མ་དམ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་
• ས་སྐྱ་པ་བླ་མ་དམ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་
• ཉི་མ་བདེ་བའི་བློ་གྲོས་
• ས་སྐྱ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་༡༤་

• btsun pa bsod nams
• bla ma dam pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan
• sa skya pa bla ma dam pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan
• nyi ma bde ba'i blo gros
• sa skya khri 'dzin, 14

Alternate names

• Lama Dampa Sönam Gyaltsen
• Sakya Tridzin, 14th

Dates

Birth:	1312
Death:	1375
Place of birth:	za lu khang gsar

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Male
Element	Water
Animal	Mouse
Rab Jyung	5

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

sa skya

Teachers

Dol po pa · Bu ston rin chen grub · Thogs med bzang po

Students

red mda' ba gzhon nu blo gros · Tsong kha pa · Klong chen rab 'byams · Bsam gtan pa shAkya bzang po

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1226

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Lama-Dampa-Sonam-Gyeltsen-Pelzangpo/2491

Treasury of Lives Excerpt

Sonam Gyeltsen was a prolific author, although many of his writings were never printed. Most famously, he was the author of the genealogy, Gyal rab sal ba'i me long (rgyal rabs sal ba'i me long), commonly translated as The Clear Mirror: A Royal Genealogy. He wrote on various tantric subjects, particularly the Kālacakratantra, and composed a commentary on Shantideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra. His influential writings on the Lamdre (lam 'bras) tradition were collected in a volume called the Lamdre Ponak (lam 'bras pod nag), one of the first major written works on Lamdre. He also sponsored the first edition of the collected works of the Five Patriarchs of Sakya (sa skya gong ma lnga).

Himalayan Art Resources Link or Other Art Resource

https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=841

Wiki Pages

• Bsod nams rgyal mtshan on the DRL
• Bsod nams rgyal mtshan on the DNZ
• Bsod nams rgyal mtshan on the BNW

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The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre.

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.