Zhechen Gyaltsab, 4th

Zhechen Gyaltsab, 4th on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors • Tulkus

ཞེ་ཆེན་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་༠༤་འགྱུར་མེད་པདྨ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་

Wylie	zhe chen rgyal tshab 04 'gyur med pad+ma rnam rgyal
Romanized Sanskrit	Padma Vijaya
English Phonetics	The Fourth Shechen Gyaltsap Gyurme Pema Namgyal

 

 

Other names

• ཨོ་རྒྱན་མི་འགྱུར་ཀུན་བཟང་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

• o rgyan mi 'gyur kun bzang bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan

Dates

Birth:	1871
Death:	1926

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Gender	Female
Element	Iron
Animal	Sheep
Rab Jyung	15

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Nyingma

Is emanation of

Shechen Gyaltsab Orgyen Rangjung Dorje

Teachers

Mi pham rgya mtsho · 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po · 'jam mgon kong sprul · Kun bzang dpal ldan · Mkhan chen bkra shis 'od zer · dge mang mkhan chen yon tan rgya mtsho · pad+ma badz+ra · Dpal sprul rin po che · pad+ma theg mchog bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan

Students

Jamgön Kongtrül, 2nd · 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros · Khyentse, Dilgo

Biographical Information

A remarkable master who lived at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. He wrote The Great Medicine That Conquers Clinging to the Notion of Reality (Byang chub kyi sems bsgom pa'i rim pa bdag 'dzin 'joms pa'i sman chen). He was a disciple of the greatest luminaries of the nineteenth century, including Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye, and Lama Mipam Rinpoche.

Links

BDRC Link (P235)

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P235

Treasury of Lives Link

http://www.treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/The-Fourth-Shechen-Gyeltsab,-Pema-Namgyel/P235

Wiki Pages

• Zhechen Gyaltsab, 4th on the DRL
• Zhechen Gyaltsab, 4th on the LIB
• Zhechen Gyaltsab, 4th on the RTZ
• Zhechen Gyaltsab, 4th on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

Shechen Gyaltsap Gyurme Pema Namgyal, a remarkable master who lived at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning o f the twentieth century, wrote The Great Medicine that Conquers Clinging to the Notion of Reality. He was a disciple of the greatest luminaries of the nineteenth century, including Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye, and Lama Mipham Rinpoche. Shechen Gyaltsap was indisputably one of the most learned and accomplished lamas of his time. The thirteen volumes of his large collection of writings contain many lucid and profound commentaries on various aspects of philosophy and practice.

     Shechen Gyaltsap was also an accomplished practitioner. He spent much of his life in retreat above Shechen Monastery in eastern Tibet, and achieved many signs of accomplishment. Once he started a three-year retreat based on the Vajrakilaya practice, but to everyone's surprise after only three months he emerged saying that he had completed his intended program. The next morning, his attendant noticed an imprint of his footprint on the stone threshold of the hermitage. Shechen Gyaltsap's disciples later removed the stone and hid it during the Cultural Revolution. Today, it is possible to see it at Shechen Monastery in Tibet. The imprint was an outer sign of his inner realization of the Vajrakilaya practice. (Source: The Great Medicine, introduction, 21)

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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.

The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases.

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.