Potowa Rinchen Sal

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Potowa Rinchen Sal

པོ་ཏོ་བ་རིན་ཆེན་གསལ་

1027 – 1105

Potowa Rinchen Sel was an important master of the early Kadam. He founded Poto Monastery in Penyul for which he derived his title. He ordained at Gyel Lhakang, and went to Reting in 1058, becoming a chief disciple of Dromton and serving as that monastery’s third abbot. A widely influential teacher, he is considered a vital source for the spread of the Kadam tradition.

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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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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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