Lo Lotsāwa

Lo Lotsāwa

གློ་ལོ་སྟཱ་བ

early 12th cent.

Lo Lotsāwa was a Tibetan translator who was born sometime in the latter part of twelfth century. He traveled to Nepal and India and received extensive teachings from many Indian masters. The translations of a number of Vajrayāna works are attributed to him. (Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection, 612n406)

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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