Sönam Gyaltsen

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Sönam Gyaltsen

བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

1312 – 1375

Sonam Gyeltsen was a prolific author, although many of his writings were never printed. Most famously, he was the author of the genealogy, Gyal rab sal ba'i me long (rgyal rabs sal ba'i me long), commonly translated as The Clear Mirror: A Royal Genealogy. He wrote on various tantric subjects, particularly the Kālacakratantra, and composed a commentary on Shantideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra. His influential writings on the Lamdre (lam 'bras) tradition were collected in a volume called the Lamdre Ponak (lam 'bras pod nag), one of the first major written works on Lamdre. He also sponsored the first edition of the collected works of the Five Patriarchs of Sakya (sa skya gong ma lnga).

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བཙུན་པ་བསོད་ནམས་བླ་མ་དམ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ས་སྐྱ་པ་བླ་མ་དམ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ཉི་མ་བདེ་བའི་བློ་གྲོས་ས་སྐྱ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་༡༤་btsun pa bsod namsbla ma dam pa bsod nams rgyal mtshansa skya pa bla ma dam pa bsod nams rgyal mtshannyi ma bde ba'i blo grossa skya khri 'dzin14Lama Dampa Sönam GyaltsenSakya Trizin14th

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Classical Tibetan Authors

Student of

Butön Rinchen DrupDölpopa Sherab GyaltsenGyalse Tokme Zangpo

Teacher of

Rendawa Zhönu LodröTsongkhapaLongchen Rabjam Drime ÖzerBsam gtan pa shAkya bzang po

3 Authored & Translated Works

Library items authored or translated by Sönam Gyaltsen.

Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Bodhicaryāvatāra [बोधिचर्यावतार]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།]. [The Way of the Bodhisattva]. Tengyur, RKTST 3216 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3216&typ=2.

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Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib ས་སྐྱ་  

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