Nor bzang rgya mtsho

Nor bzang rgya mtsho on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors

ནོར་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

Wylie	nor bzang rgya mtsho
English Phonetics	Norzang Gyatso

Other names

• མཁས་གྲུབ་ནོར་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

• mkhas grub nor bzang rgya mtsho

Dates

Birth:	1423
Death:	1513
Place of birth:	Tanak Rangjung (rta nag rang byung), Tsang, western Tibet

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Kadam; Geluk

Familial Relations

Father–Namkha Pelzang (nam mkha' dpal bzang); Mother–Chokyab Bumnyi (chos skyabs 'bum gnyis)

Teachers

Sherab Sengge · blo gros mgon po · chos 'phel rgyal mtshan · Khyenrab Wangchuk Drakpa Zangpo · Taktsang Lotsāwa Sherab Rinchen · The First Dalai Lama, Gendun Drub · The Fifth Ganden Tripa, Lodro Chokyong · grags pa 'od zer · rong bo blo bzang · blo gros sbas pa

Students

Dalai Lama, 2nd

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Links

BDRC Link (P75)

https://www.tbrc.org/#library_person_Object-P75

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Khedrub-Norzang-Gyatso/10168

Wiki Pages

• Nor bzang rgya mtsho on the DRL
• Nor bzang rgya mtsho on the LIB
• Nor bzang rgya mtsho on the BNW

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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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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.