Chak Lotsawa Choje Pal

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Chak Lotsawa Choje Pal

ཆག་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཆོས་རྗེ་དཔལ

1197 – 1264

Chag Lotsāwa Chöje Pal (Chag lo tsA ba chos rje dpal, 1197–1264; also known as Dharmasvāmin; BDRC P1025) was a Tibetan translator associated with the Kadam and Sakya traditions. He studied with the Kashmiri scholar Śākyaśrībhadra, with Chag Lotsāwa Drachom (Chag lo tsA ba dgra bcom), and with the Nepalese master Ravīndra, among others. He traveled to Nepal in 1218, where he stayed for a year, and returned there in 1222. From Nepal he went on to India in 1223, where he spent two years. His students included Chöpal Darbyang (Chos dpal dar byang), who wrote his biography, a rare firsthand account of Buddhist India in the thirteenth century. He was associated with the monastery of Teura (Rte'u ra dgon).

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Library items authored or translated by Chak Lotsawa Choje Pal.

Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib བཀའ་གདམས་  

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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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