Rong zom chos kyi bzang po

Rong zom chos kyi bzang po on the DRL

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Rab Jyung

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Tibetan: རོང་ཟོམ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བཟང་པོ་

Wylie:

• rong zom chos kyi bzang po
• rong zom

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• Rongzom

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Born: 11th cent.
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TBRC RID: P3816 TBRC Says:

important early rnying ma scholar ; he wrote many treatises, few of which survive included among his works are commentaries on the works of the gsar ma tradition W19801

biographical information W19822

listing of works by rong zom W30439

according to source rong zom chos bzang was born in 1040 and died in 1159; khamtrul notes that he belonged to the middle of the 11th century W27401

biodata

Source describes his gsung 'bum to have contained over a hundred volumes, most of which were lost. rgyal sras gzhan phan mtha' yas (P697) was the first to attempt to collect Rongzom's writings and republish them at Dzogchen Gonpa's shrI seng chos grwa. This task was continued by Mipham.

Was recognized by Atisha as an emanation of the great Indian mahasiddha, nag po spyod pa.

The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century.

The new Buddhist schools which began to rise in the second millennium in Tibet after Buddhism declined in the ninth century as a result of the fall of the Yarlung dynasty. The Sarma schools were mostly based on Buddhist teachings freshly received from India and Nepal in contrast to the revival of the old teachings which already existed in Tibet.