Chomden Rikpai Raldri

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Chomden Rikpai Raldri

བཅོམ་ལྡན་རིག་པའི་རལ་གྲི་

1227 – 1305

Famous Kadam scholar connected with Nartang (snar thang) monastery. His collected works are said to have once filled sixteen volumes and includes the earliest extant Tibetan commentary on the Uttaratantra that cites both tantric and sutric sources to corroborate the claims made in the treatise.

Also known as

བཅོམ་ལྡན་རལ་གྲི་བཅོམ་ལྡན་རིགས་པའི་རལ་གྲི་རིག་རལ་དར་མ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་bcom ldan ral gribcom ldan rigs pa'i ral gririg raldar ma rgyal mtshanRikrelbCom-ldan-ral-gri

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Classical Tibetan Authors

Student of

Kyotön Mönlam TsultrimMchims nam mkha' grags

Teacher of

Skyi ston shAkya 'bumNyedo Kunga Zangpo

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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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Uttaratantra - 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. Skt उत्तरतन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་  Ch 寶性論  

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Gotra - Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain. Skt गोत्र  Tib རིགས་  Ch 鍾姓,種性  

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