Dol po pa

Names

Tibetan: དོལ་པོ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།
Wylie:

• dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan
  
• shes rab rgyal mtshan
  
• shes rab mgon
  
• rton pa bzhi ldan
  

Other Transliterations in use:
Dolpopa
Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
Dolbopa
Dolboba

Dates

birth 1292 at gtsang stod mnga' ris dol po gru gsum spu mdo
death 1361

Affiliation

Jo nang pa

Other Biographical Information

TBRC Person RID: P139

major figure in the 'bro transmission of the kalacakra precepts
"jo nang kun mkkhyen dol po shes rab rgyal mtshan dpal bzang po"
thob yig gang+gA'i chu rgyun (v. 2, p. 7)
1304. Fled to skyi-stengs dgon for ordination.
Teacher (not recorded): bla-ma 'jam-pa'i-dbyangs taught dol-po-pa the byams chos sde lnga, dbu ma rigs, bstod tshogs, gtam tshogs, dbang lung rjes gnang for about four years before 1314.
1322. Goes to jo-nang where he meets his principal master, chos-rje yon-tan-rgya-mtsho.
1327-1331. Builds the great mchod-rten of jo-nang in memory of yon-tan-rgya-mtsho.
1336. Travels to sa-skya, chu-bzang, lha-rtse rdzong, shangs, snar-thang, etc. to meditate and erect various images and retreats.
1348. Invited to rta-nag by the ri-khud-pa and taught for a year there.
Travelled to dbus where he taught extensively.
Writings comprise 174 treatises:
grub mtha' skor: 16
phar phyin skor: 7
gsol 'debs skor: 25
Rdo rje 'phreng ba'i skor: 3
Spring yig skor: 8
Gdams ngag dang dris lan skor: 12
Rnam thar sogs kyi skor: 16
Smon lam skor: 3
Bkra shis skor: 4

Main Students

blo gros rgyal mtshan

phyogs las rnam rgyal

blo gros dpal bzang

rin chen bzang po

dkon mchog rgyal mtshan

kun dga' dpal

chos grags dpal

ma Ni ka shrI

bsod nams grags pa

kun dga' 'bum

blo gros rgyal mtshan

rin chen tshul khrims

blo gros dpal

phun tshogs dpal

lha'i rgyal mtshan

bsod nams bzang po

blo gros grags pa

g.yag sde paN chen

chos grags bzang po

Main Teachers

tshul khrims snying po

skyi ston 'jam dbyangs

byang chub seng+ge

tshul khrims bzang po

grags pa rgyal mtshan

shes rab bzang po

gzhon nu bzang po

blo gros bstan pa

bsod nams grags pa

nag 'bum

yon tan rgya mtsho

yon tan rgya mtsho

This refers to a series of five texts that, according to the Tibetan tradition, Asaṅga received directly from Maitreya in the pure realm of Tuṣita.

Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain.

The six or ten types of practices which lead an individual to Buddhahood. The practice of perfections is particularly important in Mahāyāna Buddhism in which the entire path of the Bodhisattva to reach full enlightenment is included in the six or ten perfections. The six perfections are that of giving, of discipline, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom. The perfection of skill-in-means, power, aspirations, power and pristine wisdom are added to them ten perfections.