Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe

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Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe

སྒ་རབ་འབྱམས་པ་ཀུན་དགའ་ཡེ་ཤེས་

1397 – 1470

Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe was born in Kham and educated in U-Tsang under some of the most famous Sakya teachers of his day. After receiving instruction from the likes of Rongton Shākya Gyeltsen Kunrik and Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo, he was awarded the degree of Rabjampa, the highest educational rank at the time. Returning to Kham he spent years in retreat and then taught extensively. He founded Tarlam Monastery in 1436.

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ཐར་ལམ་རབ་འབྱམས་པ་ཀུན་དགའ་ཡེ་ཤེས་thar lam rab 'byams pa kun dga' ye shes

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Ngor mkhan chen1stRongtön Sheja Kunrik

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Library items authored or translated by Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe.

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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