Smin gling lo chen d+harma shrI

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སྨིན་གླིང་ལོ་ཆེན་དྷརྨ་ཤྲཱི་

Wylie	smin gling lo chen d+harma shrI
Romanized Sanskrit	Dharmaśrī
English Phonetics	Minling Lochen Dharmaśrī

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Other names

• སྨིན་གླིང་མཁན་ཆེན་གཉིས་པ་
• ངག་དབང་ཆོས་དཔལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

• smin gling mkhan chen gnyis pa
• ngag dbang chos dpal rgya mtsho

Dates

Birth:	1654
Death:	1718

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Male
Element	Wood
Animal	Horse
Rab Jyung	11

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Nyingma

Is emanation of

Yudra Nyingpo

Teachers

Phrin las lhun grub · Gter bdag gling pa 'gyur med rdo rje · Pad+ma phrin las · Ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho

Students

Rin chen rnam rgyal · Mi 'gyur dpal sgron · Khams pa ngag dbang kun dga' bstan 'dzin

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P667

Treasury of Lives Link

http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Lochen-Dharma%C5%9Br%C4%AB/TBRC_P667

Wiki Pages

• Smin gling lo chen d+harma shrI on the DRL
• Smin gling lo chen d+harma shrI on the LIB
• Smin gling lo chen d+harma shrI on the RTZ
• Smin gling lo chen d+harma shrI on the DNZ
• Smin gling lo chen d+harma shrI on the BNW

Notes

Son of Phrin las lhun grub and younger brother of Gter bdag gling pa 'gyur med rdo rje

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

Lochen Dharmashri (Tib. ལོ་ཆེན་དྷརྨ་ཤྲཱི་, Wyl. lo chen d+harma shrI) aka Ngawang Chöpal Gyatso (Tib. ངག་དབང་ཆོས་དཔལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wyl. ngag dbang chos dpal rgya mtsho) (1654-1717) — one of the greatest scholars of the Nyingma school, whose collected writings fill twenty volumes and include important commentaries on the Guhyagarbha Tantra. He was an emanation of Yudra Nyingpo and the younger brother of Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje, the founder of Mindroling Monastery. He was tragically killed during the Dzungar war of 1717-8, during which Mindroling was destroyed. Source Accessed Feb 25, 2020

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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.

Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena.

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.