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His father was Rigdzin Gyurme Tsewang Gyelpo (rig 'dzin 'gyur med tshe dbang rgyal po, d.u.) and his mother was Tsultrim Tso (tshul khrims 'tsho, d.u.). His clan was Chakgong (lcag gong). His paternal grandfather was Serpa Tengen (gser pa gter rgan, d.u.), a lineage holder of the treasures of Dudul Dorje (bdud 'dul rdo rje, 1615-1672). ([https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Jamyang-Khyentse-Chokyi-Lodro/9990 Source: Treasury of Lives]) +
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BDRC also has this person page [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P8763 P8763] connected to the printing of his work on the 9th chapter of the ''Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra'', which the publishers attribute to Blo gros rgya mtsho. +
Bio on [http://hhsakyatrizin.net/loppon-sonam-tsemo/ hhsakyatrizin.net] +
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Translator sometimes included among the 25 disciples of Guru Rinpoche, but not in the Terton Gyatsa. He was said to have accompanied [[ska ba dpal brtsegs]] and [[rma rin chen mchog]] to India in order to invite [[Vimalamitra]]. +
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Founded Mindroling Monastery ('og min o rgyan smin grol gling) in 1676. +
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Important master of the karma kaM tshang tradition
*He is regarded as the first of the incarnation lamas in tibet, since he became widely recognized as the embodiment of karma pak+Si.
*He was installed first at karma dgon and then established at kam po gnas nang.
*He is famed for the building of the iron bridge over the sog chu.
*In 1331 he was invited to court by the yuan emperor and received by prince rat+na shrI.
*After the prince's demise, his elder brother brought him to sman rtse.
*According to the bod kyi gal che'i lo rgyus he died at 56. +
*Enthroned at the age of 9 months on the lion throne of the sgar chen 'dzam gling rgyan chen, the encampment of the Karmapa.
*He was responsible for the establishment of the karma grwa tshang bshad grwa.
*He enjoyed the patronage of the ching hwa emperor.
*He restored the teachings and discipline at 'bri gung.
*Established the bre bo chu mdo rnam rgyal gling dgon pa in spo bo.
*Created the smon lam gyi cho ga yan lag nyi shu pa.
*According to the bod kyi gal che'i lo rgyus: born in khams rngod mda' spyi nang and d. 53.
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See the [[Karmapa Lineage]] page. +
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12th century. +
Tutor to 14th Dalai Lama +
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Maitreya is often called the future Buddha and is the bodhisattva who resides in Tushita heaven until coming to the human realm to take the role of the next Buddha after Shakyamuni Buddha. +
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Patsab Lotsāwa Nyima Drakpa was a major translator of Madhyamaka texts into Tibet. A a monk of Sangpu Monastery, he traveled in in Kashmir to work with paṇḍitas such as X and Y. Among his translations are Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Āryadeva's Catuhśataka-śāstra (Four Hundred Verses), and Candrakīrti's Madhyamakāvatāra. His commentary on the Nagarjuna is possibly the earliest Tibetan exegesis of the work. In Tibet he is considered the founder of the Prasangika school of Madhyamaka. +
He was the older brother or cousin of KaH thog dam pa bde gshegs. +
From [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=W00EGS1016899 shAkya mchog ldan] a more detailed description of important students:
དཔེ་འགྲེམས་ཀྱི་གྲྭ་པ་ལྔ་སྟོང་ཙམ་བྱུང་བར་གྲགས། དེའི་ནང་ནས་མཆོག་ཏུ་གྱུར་པ། གྲུབ་ཐོབ་མི་གསུམ། ཇོ་སྲས་མི་བཞི། ཤེས་རབ་ཅན་མི་གསུམ། སེང་ཆེན་བརྒྱད ་རྣམས་སོ། །དང་པོ་ནི། རྗེ་དུས་གསུམ་མཁྱེན་པ། ཕག་མོ་གྲུབ་པ། གསལ་སྟོ་ཤོ་སྒོམ་རྣམས་སོ། །ལ་ལ་ཞང་འཚལ་པ་ཡིན་ཞེས་ཟེར། གཉིས་པ་ནི། ས་ཇོ་སྲས་བསོད་ནམས་རྩེ་མོ། མཉོས་ཇོ་སྲས་དཔལ་ལེ། ཁུ་ཇོ་སྲས་ནེ་ཙོ། རྔོག་ཇོ་སྲས་ར་མོ་རྣམས་སོ། །གསུམ་པ་ནི། རྐོང་པོ་འཇག་ཆུང༌། ལྷོ་པ་སྒོག་གཟན། པར་བུ་བ་བློ་གྲོས་སེང་གེ་རྣམས་སོ། །སྒོག་གཟན་ནི་ལྷོ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པར་གྲགས་པ་སྟེ། ལྷོ་པ་དྷར་སེང་ངོ༌། །བཞི་པ་ནི། ཕྱྭ་པའི་རྗེས་སུ་གདན་ས་ལོ་ལྔ་མཛད་པའི་བརྩེགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་སེང་གེ་གཙང་ནག་པ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་སེང་གེ་ རྨ་བྱ་རྩོད་པའི་སེང་གེ་ བྲུ་ཤ་བསོད་ནམས་སེང་གེ་ མྱང་བྲན་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སེང་གེ་ དན་འབག་པ་སྨྲ་བའི་སེང་གེ་ འདམ་པ་དཀོན་མཆོག་སེང་གེ་ རྐྱང་དུར་བ་གཞོན་ནུ་སེང་གེ་ ལ་ལ་དག་འུ་ཡུག་པ་བསོད་ནམས་སེང་གེ ཞེས་ཟེར་ཡང་དུས་མི་འགྲིག་
Another list of the seng chen rgyad can be found in the [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=W7499 Chos 'byung mkhas pa'i dga' ston], p. 729:
སློབ་མ་ཐུགས་སྲས་སེང་ཆེན་བརྒྱད་ཅེས། གཙང་ནག་པ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་སེང་གེ དན་འབག་སྨྲ་བའི་སེང་གེ བྲུ་ཤ་བསོད་ནམས་སེང་གེ རྨ་བྱ་རྩོད་པའི་སེང་གེ རྩགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་སེང་གེ ཉང་བྲན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སེང་གེ འདན་མ་དཀོན་མཆོག་སེང་གེ གཉལ་པ་ཡོན་ཏན་སེང་གེ ཁ་ཅིག་གཙང་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་སེང་གེ་ཡང་འདྲེན།
And again in the [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=W1KG2733 Chos rnam kun btus], p. 1853:
1. gtsang nag pa brtson 'grus seng ge
2. dan 'bag pa smra ba'i seng ge
3. bru sha bsod nams seng ge
4. rmya ba rtsod pa'i seng ge
5. rtsags dbang phyug seng ge
6. myang bran chos kyi seng ge
7. ldan ma dkon mchog seng ge
8. gnyal pa yon tan seng ge +
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Ngawang Tenzin Norbu, aka the 10th Dzatrul Rinpoche (1867-1940/42), who was one of the main teachers of Kyabjé Trulshik Rinpoche, is remembered especially for his commentaries on the Thirty-Seven Practices of the Bodhisattvas. One of the foremost disciples of Trulshik Dongak Lingpa, he became known as the Buddha of Dza Rongphu (རྫ་རོང་ཕུ་, Wyl. rdza rong phu) after his place of residence in the upper valley of the Dzakar River, which became known as Rongpuk Monastery. It was there that he undertook retreat and founded the monastery of Dongak Zungjuk Ling in 1901 on the northern slopes of Mount Everest. He also studied for many years at Mindroling Monastery.
In 1922 Ngawang Tenzin Norbu met a group of climbers led by General C. G. Bruce and later wrote about the encounter in his autobiography.
After he passed away his body was enshrined in a case made of akaro wood. It was later brought out of Tibet by Trulshik Rinpoche and the monks of Dza Rongphu as they fled in 1959. The body was cremated at Thangmé Monastery in the Solu Khumbu region of Nepal. (Source: [https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Ngawang_Tenzin_Norbu Rigpa Wiki]) +
Alternative birth date 1362.
*one of the two chief disciples of tsong kha pa and his first successor on the seat of dga' ldan, 1419-1431.
:dga' ldan dgon pa dang brag yer pa'i lo rgyus (p. 58)
* birth 1364 at ri nang (nyang stod)
* Assumes Office 1419 Dga' ldan khri at dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)
* Leaves Office 1431 Dga' ldan khri at dga' ldan dgon (stag rtse rdzong)
* death 1432
*Took the degree of dka' bcu pa at sa skya, gsang phu, and rtsed thang.
:debated against rong ston and against g.yag phrug pa.
:1419: came to the throne of dga' ldan and served ll years.
:gsung 'bum in 8 volumes. +
Founded gsang phu ne'u thog in 1072. +
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Assumes office in 1111 +
One of the greatest names in the karma kaM tshang tradition.
*1538 - Received teachings from dpa' bo 2 gtsug lag 'phreng ba.
*1538 - Took rab byung vows from mi bskyod rdo rje.
*1539 - Installed at yangs pa can.
*1542 - Final monastic ordination.
*1542 - Studies with stag lung mkhas mchog ngag dbang grags pa.
*1546 - Solitary retreat at tsA ri tra.
*1561 - Installs dbang phyug rdo rje at mtshur phu and confers teachings.
His gsung 'bum is about 8 volumes. ([https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1426 Source: BDRC]) +
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1717 - Founds dpal spungs chos 'khor gling monastery +