Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen

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Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen

དོལ་པོ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

1292 – 1361

Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen was one of the most influential Buddhist masters in Tibetan history. He first became an important scholar of the Sakya tradition, but then moved to Jonang Monastery. There he became the fourth holder of the monastic seat and constructed a monumental stupa. Dölpopa’s ideas, specifically his famous formulation of the zhentong view and his interpretations of Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna doctrine, have elicited controversy for nearly seven hundred years.

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Also known as

ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ཤེས་རབ་མགོན་རྟོན་པ་བཞི་ལྡན་shes rab rgyal mtshanshes rab mgonrton pa bzhi ldan

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Classical Tibetan Authors

Student of

Tshul khrims snying poSkyi ston 'jam dbyangsKyitön Drakpa GyaltsenSa skya slob dpon shes rab bzang poGzhon nu bzang poBlo gros bstan paJo gdan mkhan po bsod nams grags paNag 'bumJonang Chöje Yönten Gyatso

Teacher of

Yakde PaṇchenJonang Lotsāwa Lodrö PalSönam GyaltsenChokle NamgyalSabzang Mati Paṇchen Lodrö GyaltsenDrikung Lotsāwa MaṇikaśrīNyawön Kunga PalKun spangs chos grags dpal bzang

5 Authored & Translated Works

Library items authored or translated by Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen.

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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Jonang - The Jonang tradition was established by Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, a thirteenth-century Sakya monk famous for his Zhentong teachings. The Jonang teachings and monasteries were suppressed in Tibet in the seventeenth century but survived in Amdo. Tib ཇོ་ནང་  

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Gzhan stong - 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. Tib གཞན་སྟོང་  

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Vajrayāna - The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras. Skt वज्रयान  Tib རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།  Ch 金剛乘  

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