Shamarpa, 4th

Shamarpa, 4th on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors

ཆོས་གྲགས་ཡེ་ཤེས་

Wylie	chos grags ye shes
English Phonetics	Fourth Shamarpa Chodrak Yeshe

Wikipedia Commons

Other names

• ཞྭ་དམར་བཞི་པ་ཆོས་གྲགས་ཡེ་ཤེས་
• སྤྱན་སྔ་བ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔལ་བཟང་

• zhwa dmar bzhi pa chos grags ye shes
• spyan snga ba chos kyi grags pa ye shes dpal bzang

Alternate names

• Shamarpa, 4th

Dates

Birth:	1453
Death:	1524

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Female
Element	Water
Animal	Bird
Rab Jyung	8

Dates of passing

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Gender
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Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Karma Kagyu

Is emanation of

Third Shamarpa Chopel Yeshe

Has following emanations

Fifth Shamarpa Könchok Yenlak

Teachers

Karmapa, 7th · 'gos lo tsA ba gzhon nu dpal · khrims khang lo tsA ba bsod nams rgya mtsho · byang chub rgya mtsho · Goshir Gyaltsab, 1st

Students

Pawo Rinpoche, 2nd · mi nyag pa rdo rje seng+ge · kun dga' rin chen · rdo rje gdan pa kun dga' rnam rgyal · rin chen phun tshogs chos kyi rgyal po

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P317

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/The-Fourth-Zhamar,-chos-grags-ye-shes/P317

Wiki Pages

• Shamarpa, 4th on the DRL
• Shamarpa, 4th on the LIB
• Shamarpa, 4th on the DNZ
• Shamarpa, 4th on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

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Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
Position:	Definitive
Notes:	Draszczyk, “A Eulogy" 115
All beings have Buddha-nature
Position:	Yes
If "Qualified", explain:
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Which Wheel Turning
Position:	Third Turning
Notes:	Draszczyk, “A Eulogy" 115
Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
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Zhentong vs Rangtong
Position:	Zhentong
Notes:	Affirms that the mind's true nature is not empty of its own qualities, but he does not use the term zhentong. Draszczyk, “A Eulogy" 115
Promotes how many vehicles?
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Analytic vs Meditative Tradition
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What is Buddha-nature?
Position:	Tathagatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature
Notes:	Draszczyk, “A Eulogy" 115
Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda
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"Tathagatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature" is not in the list (Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature, Tathāgatagarbha as the Unity of Emptiness and Luminosity, Tathāgatagarbha as a Causal Potential or Disposition (gotra), Tathāgatagarbha as the Resultant State of Buddhahood, There are several types of Tathāgatagarbha, Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is a Non-implicative Negation (without enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is an Implicative Negation (with enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Latent State of Buddhahood that is Obscured in Sentient Beings, Tathāgatagarbha was Taught Merely to Encourage Sentient Beings to Enter the Path) of allowed values for the "PosEmptyLumin" property.

The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.

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.

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.

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.

In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas.

Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain.

The qualities or attributes of an enlightened being.