Geshe Langri Thangpa

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Geshe Langri Thangpa

དགེ་བཤེས་གླང་རི་ཐང་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེངྒེ་

1054 – 1123

Geshe Langri Tangpa (Tib. དགེ་བཤེས་གླང་རི་ཐང་པ་, Wyl. dge bshes glang ri thang pa) (1054-1123 ), aka. Langthangpa Dorje Senge (གླང་ཐང་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེངྒེ་glang thang pa rdo rje seng+ge) — a famous Kadampa master and disciple of Potowa Rinchen Sal, who is best known for composing the Eight Verses of Training the Mind. (Source Accessed Nov 8, 2024)

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8 Authored & Translated Works

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1 Works About Geshe Langri Thangpa

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Śrāvaka - 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. Skt श्रावक  Tib ཉན་ཐོས།  Ch 聲聞  

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