Se ra rje btsun chos kyi rgyal mtshan

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སེ་ར་རྗེ་བཙུན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

Wylie	se ra rje btsun chos kyi rgyal mtshan
English Phonetics	Sera Jetsun Chokyi Gyaltsen

Other names

• ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་
• སེ་ར་རྗེ་བཙུན་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་
• སེ་ར་ཁྲི་རབས་༡༢
• སེར་བྱེས་མཁན་རབས་༠༥

• chos kyi rgyal mtshan
• se ra rje btsun pa chos kyi rgyal mtshan
• se ra khri rabs 12
• ser byes mkhan rabs 05

Alternate names

• Sera Jetsun Chokyi Gyal Tsan
• Sera Jetsün Chökyi Gyäl Tsän

Dates

Birth:	1469
Death:	1544/1546

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Gender	Male
Element
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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Month
Gender
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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Gelukpa; Se ra rje

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Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P477

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Chokyi-Gyeltsen/7240

Wiki Pages

• Se ra rje btsun chos kyi rgyal mtshan on the DRL
• Se ra rje btsun chos kyi rgyal mtshan on the LIB
• Se ra rje btsun chos kyi rgyal mtshan on the BNW

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The Geluk tradition traces its origin to Tsongkhapa, who propagated a modified version of the Kadampa lojong and lamrim teachings. It is the dominant tradition of Tibet, having established its control of the government under the figure of the Dalai Lama.

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.