Tsong kha pa

Tsong kha pa on the DRL

Author

ཙོང་ཁ་པ་

Wylie	tsong kha pa

Line Drawing by Robert Beer Courtesy of The Robert Beer Online Galleries

Other names

• ཙོང་ཁ་པ་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ་
• བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པའི་དཔལ་
• བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ་

• tsong kha pa blo bzang grags pa
• blo bzang grags pa'i dpal
• blo bzang grags pa

Dates

Birth:	1357
Death:	1419
Place of birth:	tsong kha (Amdo)

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Female
Element	Fire
Animal	Bird
Rab Jyung	6

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

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Teachers

bsod nams rgyal mtshan · Red mda' ba gzhon nu blo gros · Nya dbon kun dga' dpal · Phyogs las rnam rgyal · sgra tshad pa rin chen rnam rgyal · Karmapa, 4th

Students

'gos lo tsA ba gzhon nu dpal · mkhas grub rje · Rgyal tshab rje dar ma rin chen · spyan nga bsod nams bzang po · 'dul 'dzin grags pa rgyal mtshan · 'jam dbyangs chos rje bkra shis dpal ldan

Other Biographical info:

• Assumes office 1409 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)

• Leaves office 1419 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)

• Founds monastery 1409 dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)

• Final Ordination 1381 yar klung rnam rgyal dgon

Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P64

Treasury of Lives Link

http://www.treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Tsongkhapa-Lobzang-Drakpa/8986

Treasury of Lives Excerpt

Himalayan Art Resources Link or Other Art Resource

https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=197

Wiki Pages

• Tsong kha pa on the DRL
• Tsong kha pa on the LIB
• Tsong kha pa on the DNZ
• Tsong kha pa on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

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All beings have Buddha-nature
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
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Notes:	Note that Wangchuk maintains that he developed this certainty later in his career. Nevertheless, he quotes his stance as: "In his Illuminating the Thoughts of the Madhyamaka, Tsongkhapa clearly states, "The great master Asanga also did not explain the Uttaratantra according to the Cittamätra School, rather he explicated it according to the Madhyamaka School." Wangchuk, Tsering, The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows, p. 93.
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
Position:	Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་)
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda
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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 Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra.

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.