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|BnwShortPersonBio=Gyalse Tokme Zangpo was a Kadampa master of the fourteenth century based at Ngulchu Monastery where he sat in retreat for twenty years. He had previously served as the abbot of Bodong E for about nine years, from 1326 to 1335. Significant in the transmission of Lojong teachings, his compositions include the famous ''Thirty-seven Practices of the Bodhisattva'', one of the classics of Tibetan buddhist literature. A specialist in tantric Mahākaruṇā, he was a disciple of Butön Rinchen Drup and a teacher of Rendawa Zhönu Lodrö, and is counted as seventy-third in the Lamrim lineage. | |BnwShortPersonBio=Gyalse Tokme Zangpo was a Kadampa master of the fourteenth century based at Ngulchu Monastery where he sat in retreat for twenty years. He had previously served as the abbot of Bodong E for about nine years, from 1326 to 1335. Significant in the transmission of Lojong teachings, his compositions include the famous ''Thirty-seven Practices of the Bodhisattva'', one of the classics of Tibetan buddhist literature. A specialist in tantric Mahākaruṇā, he was a disciple of Butön Rinchen Drup and a teacher of Rendawa Zhönu Lodrö, and is counted as seventy-third in the Lamrim lineage. | ||
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− | |PosBuNayDefProvNotes=Wangchuk quotes Tokme's praise of the ''Uttaratantra'', which states: | + | |PosBuNayDefProvNotes=Wangchuk quotes Tokme's praise of the ''Uttaratantra'', which states: "Endowed with the essence of stamens of the ultimate definitive meaning, |
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− | "Endowed with the essence of stamens of the ultimate | ||
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Is this lotus grove of the teaching of the Lord Maitreya." | Is this lotus grove of the teaching of the Lord Maitreya." | ||
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[[Wangchuk, Tsering]], ''[[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]]'', p. 60. | [[Wangchuk, Tsering]], ''[[The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows]]'', p. 60. | ||
|PosAllBuddha=Yes | |PosAllBuddha=Yes |
Revision as of 11:27, 14 August 2018
Wylie | thogs med bzang po |
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English Phonetics | Tokme Zangpo |
- ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་དཔལ་
- རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་
- རྒྱལ་སྲས་དངུལ་ཆུ་ཐོགས་མེད་
- རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཆོས་རྫོང་པ་
- དཀོན་མཆོག་བཟང་པོ་
- བཟང་པོ་དཔལ་
- thogs med bzang po dpal
- rgyal sras thogs med bzang po
- rgyal sras dngul chu thogs med
- rgyal sras chos rdzong pa
- dkon mchog bzang po
- bzang po dpal
Birth: | 1295 |
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Death: | 1369 |
Place of birth: | phul byung brag skya (sa skya) |
Tibetan calendar dates
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Gender | Female |
Element | Wood |
Animal | Sheep |
Rab Jyung | 5 |
- Religious Affiliation
- Kadam
Other Biographical info:
- BDRC Link
- https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1830
- Treasury of Lives Link
- https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Gyelse-Tokme-Zangpo/3153
- Wiki Pages
- Person description or short bio
- Gyalse Tokme Zangpo was a Kadampa master of the fourteenth century based at Ngulchu Monastery where he sat in retreat for twenty years. He had previously served as the abbot of Bodong E for about nine years, from 1326 to 1335. Significant in the transmission of Lojong teachings, his compositions include the famous Thirty-seven Practices of the Bodhisattva, one of the classics of Tibetan buddhist literature. A specialist in tantric Mahākaruṇā, he was a disciple of Butön Rinchen Drup and a teacher of Rendawa Zhönu Lodrö, and is counted as seventy-third in the Lamrim lineage.
Expand to see this person's philosophical positions on Buddha-nature.
Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional? | |
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Position: | Definitive |
Notes: | Wangchuk quotes Tokme's praise of the Uttaratantra, which states: "Endowed with the essence of stamens of the ultimate definitive meaning,
Is this lotus grove of the teaching of the Lord Maitreya." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 60. |
All beings have Buddha-nature | |
Position: | Yes |
If "Qualified", explain: | |
Notes: | Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 62. |
Which Wheel Turning | |
Position: | Third Turning |
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka | |
Position: | |
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Zhentong vs Rangtong | |
Position: | |
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Promotes how many vehicles? | |
Position: | |
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Analytic vs Meditative Tradition | |
Position: | |
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What is Buddha-nature? | |
Position: | Tathagatagarbha as the Dharmakaya |
Notes: | Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 62. |
Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་) | |
Position: | |
Notes: | |
Causal nature of the vajrapāda | |
Position: |
"Tathagatagarbha as the Dharmakaya" 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.