Ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho

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Classical Tibetan Authors

ཚོགས་གཉིས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

Wylie	tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho
English Phonetics	Tsoknyi Gyatso

Other names

• འཛམ་ཐང་མཁན་པོ་ཚོགས་གཉིས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
• ངག་དབང་ཚོགས་གཉིས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

• 'dzam thang mkhan po tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho
• ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho

Dates

Birth:	1880
Death:	1940
Place of birth:	rab kha grong sde ('Dzam thang, A mdo.)

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Jonang

Teachers

thub bstan dge legs rgya mtsho · 'dzong bo skyabs mgon · ngag dbang chos 'dzin

Students

blo gros grags pa · smon lam bzang po · ngag dbang bsod nams bzang po · gsang sngags rgya mtsho

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Links

BDRC Link (PP7843)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P7843

Wiki Pages

• Ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho on the DRL
• Ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho on the LIB
• Ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

Without ever straying more than a few kilometres from the valleys of the 'Dzam thang area of southern A mdo where he was born, a stronghold of the Jo nang tradition, Tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho (1880–1940) had a very sedentary life. Still, he was exposed to a broad range of philosophical views through teachers, such as 'Ba' mda' Dge legs (1844–1904) and Ngag dbang chos 'byor (1846–1910), who also appreciated Dge lugs scholasticism and who had studied with some of the most prominent Bka' brgyud and Rnying ma authorities of the 19th century, such as Kong sprul (1813–1899), Dpal sprul (1808–1887), and Mi pham (1846–1912). (Source: Filippo Brambilla)

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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.