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Author	Jam dbyangs kun dga' rnam rgyal (Sde gzhung chos 'phel)
Display name	Jamyang Kunga Namgyal (Dezhung Chöpel)
Page	People/'Jam dbyangs kun dga' rnam rgyal
Sort date	1880
Date	1880?–1950?
Description	He was known as a master of both sūtra and tantra, mainly focused in the Sakya tradition. He was also a specialist in astrology, skilled at drawing charts. He strictly observed the Vinaya, not eating after noon.
Description Tibetan	མདོ་སྔགས་གཉིས་ཀར་མཁས་པར་གྲགས། གཙོ་བོར་དཔལ་ལྡན་ས་སྐྱ་པའི་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་ཏུ་གཏོགས། རྩིས་རིག་པའི་རིགས་གཅིག་རྐང་འཛིན་དུ་གྱུར། རྩིས་ཀྱི་རེའུ་མིག་བྲི་བར་ཤིན་ཏུ་མཁས། ཕྱི་དྲོའི་ཁ་ཟས་དང་་བཅས་པ་སྤངས་ཤིང་དམ་ཆོས་འདུལ་བའི་བསླབ་བྱ་རྣམས་གཙིགས་གྱིསབཟུང་།
Text title	Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i bsdus don 'jam dbyangs bla ma'i zhal lung Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa las shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i le'u'i 'grel pa gzhung don 'khrul med gsal ba'i nyi 'od Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i dka' 'grel dang lung sbyor mdor bsdus 'jam dbyangs bla ma'i dgongs gsal
External images	https://www.himalayanart.org/items/1206
External link	https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Dezhung-Chopel-Jamyang-Kunga-Namgyel/12500

Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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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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Vinaya - Vinaya refers to the corpus of Buddhist teachings on moral discipline and precepts and is one of the three canonical sets of teachings alongside Sūtra and Abhidharma. It also refers to the monastic tradition which has been passed down since the Buddha's time until our time. Skt विनय  Tib འདུལ་བ།  Ch 毘奈耶  

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