Dol po pa

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In the city of Kayuri (ka yo ri) of Ngari, the home of the Tibetan paṇḍita, the Omniscient Dharma Lord Dolpapo Sherab Gyaltsen (1292–1361) was born to Yeshe Wangchok (his father) and Lamo Tsultrim Gyan (lha mo tshul khrims rgyan), his mother) in the year of Water Male Dragon. He took the novice vow, received the name as Sherab Gyaltsen, and studied authoritative commentaries on the scripture Karika (ka ri kA) under Khenpo Tsultrim Nyingpo (tshul khrims snying po). He also received empowerments and instructions on The Three Luminous Circles of Garlands, The Three Manifest Beneficial Cognitions, The Bodhicaryāvatāra, The Five Treatises of Maitreya, along with limitless greater and lesser traditions of sutra and mantra from over thirty lamas including Kyitun Jamyang Chakpa Gyantsen (skyid ston 'jam dbyangs grags pa rgyan mtshan).

He attended most every dharma teaching that occurred around Ü and Tsang in his young age. Everyone praised him as an intrinsically omniscient one because of his insightful capacity, his impressive manifestation of awareness, and his extensive and unobstructed knowledge of Prajñāpāramitā. Therefore, he was renowned as “the Omniscient Dharma Lord”. He requested full ordination and studied the root texts of the Vinaya Sutras and their commentaries from Kenchen Sonam Chakpa (mkhyen chen bsod nams grags pa).

In 1322, at the age of thirty one, he arrived at Jonang. Khentsun Yönten Gyatso (mkhan btsun yon tan rgya mtsho) bestowed upon him the Kalachakra empowerment, and gave him the instructions on the Six Unions and many other teachings. In 1326, at the command of Khentsun, he was enthroned as regent. During the next two years, Khentsun continually gave him all the empowerments, transmissions, and instructions, and taught him all the doctrines he knew.

The main accomplishments of Dolpapa Sherab Gyaltsen were: 1) he built the great Jonang stupa of liberation; 2) he wrote an extensive instruction on The Ocean of Precious Ultimate Truth in his own way; 3) he gave permission to his two main students to re-translate the Kalachakra, and he composed a great tantric commentary, precise meaning, and annotation to it; 4) he wrote The Fundamental Treatise, The Four Significant Doctrines, and treatises and instructions on emptiness-of-other. During his lifetime, he dedicated his work to the buddha dharma and benefit of all sentient beings, and established many disciples on the path of maturation and libration. He passed into Nirvana in 1361, the year of Iron Female Ox. His outstanding students included Lotsā Namnyi ()

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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

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Jo nang pa

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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

Can refer to either the Kālacakra Tantra and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered.

The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.

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.