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Born in a small place called Puljung Drakya in Sakya. He was a student of Rinchen Tashi Pembar, Rinchen Palzang, Rinchen Dorje, Künga Gyaltsen, Zhönu Gyaltsen, Yangsem Rinchen, Namkha Sangye, Sönam Drakpa, Rinchen Sönam Drakpa, and Sher Bum. He was a teacher of Drogön Palden Yeshe, Rendawa Zhönu Lodrö, Jamyang Donyo Gyaltsen, Nyakpuwa Sonam Zangpo, Gyalwa Rinchen, Jangchup Tsemo, Buddhaśrī, Tsültrim Palwa, Sangye Rinchen Gyaltsen, Namkhai Naljor, and Sabzang Pakpa Zhönu Lodrö. +
A student of Kyotön Mönlam Tsültrim, the eighth abbot of Nartang. +
One of Dölpopa’s fourteen major disciples. A Sanskrit scholar, he completed a new translation of the ''Kālacakra Tantra'' and the ''Vimalaprabhā''. Dölpopa personally selected Lodrö Pal as his successor and the fifth holder of the monastic seat of Jonang Monastery. Lodrö Pal also made important new additions to the art and architecture of the Jonang stūpa. +
The most important of Atiśa's teachers. In Tibetan, he is known simply as Serlingpa. +
A Kadam scholar from Sangpu Neutok Monastery who was known for his expertise in the Five Treatises of Maitreya. He was a contemporary of both Dölpopa and Butön and a teacher of the Sakya scholar Yakde Paṇchen and the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje. +
A teacher of Rinchen Zangpo, the second Gangkar Lama, (b.1317 – d.1383). +
A prolific author, although many of his writings were never printed. Most famously, he was the author of the genealogy ''Gyalrap Salwai Melong'' (''Rgyal rabs sal ba'i me long''), commonly translated as ''The Clear Mirror: A Royal Genealogy''. He wrote on various tantric subjects, particularly the ''Kālacakra Tantra'', and composed a commentary on Śāntideva's ''Bodhicaryāvatāra''. +
A student of Chim Lobzang Drakpa and Zhönu Senge. A teacher of Nyendrak Zangpo, Khenchen Drupa Sherap, Nyakpuwa Sönam Wangchuk, Ritröpa Sönam Gyatso, and Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa. +
Born in the Tsongkha region of Amdo, Tibet. He studied with more than fifty different Buddhist scholars in Utsang. He was the founder of the Geluk order of Tibetan Buddhism. +
Born in either 1362 or 1364 in a place called Rinang, in Nyangto, Tsang. He was a student of Rinchen Gyaltsen, Rinchen Dorje, Rendawa Zhönu Lodrö, and Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa. +
The second in the line of great Sakya masters known as the six ornaments of Tibet. Among these teachers he is particularly revered for his mastery of the Buddhist sūtras. Rongtön studied and taught at Sangpu Neutok Monastery. He founded Penpo Nalendra Monastery in 1436. +
The twenty-third abbot of Bo dong E Monastery. His collected works, said to number thirty-six titles, include his huge encyclopedic work ''Denyi Dupa'' (''De nyid 'dus pa''). He was also a teacher of Gendün Drup (the First Dalai Lama) and Khedrup Gelek Palzang, both students of Tsongkhapa. +
Born in 1382 at Sakya Monastery in Tibet. A student of Palden Tsultrim, Sharchen Yeshe Gyaltsen, Buddhaśrī, Sabzang Pakpa Zhönu Lodrö, Künga Gyaltsen, Kyapchok Palzang, and Tashi Rinchen. A teacher of the Eighth Ngor Khenchen, Muchen Sangye Rinchen, etc. +
Chenga Lodrö Gyaltsen, one of the principal students of Khedrubje, was an early Geluk scholar-adept. He was educated in the classical scholastic curriculum and gained a reputation as a learned scholar at an early age. +
A great Indian master and scholar and one of the main teachers at the famous university of Vikramaśilā. He was a strict follower of the monastic rule and was acclaimed for the purity of his teaching. He spent the last ten years of his life in Tibet, and his Tibetan disciples founded the Kadampa school. +
A prominent sixteenth-century Kagyu scholar whose best-known composition was the ''Chöjung Khepai Gatön'' (''Chos 'byung khas pa'i dga' ston''), or ''Scholars Feast'', a history of Buddhism in India and Tibet, as well as the history of the Karma Kagyu tradition. He is also famous for a massive commentary (975 folios) on the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'', which is still the standard for Karma Kagyu commentaries. +
One of those rare renaissance men. The breadth of his scholarship and learning invites comparison with the Fifth Dalai Lama. He systematized the teaching of the Drukpa sect. +
A student of the the Fifth Tatsak Jedrung, Ngawang Chökyi Wangchuk, and the Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso. +
A student of Lobzang Yeshe, Lobzang Namgyal, Purbuchok Ngawang Jampa, Palden Yeshe, Ngawang Namkha Zangpo, Tösamling Chöje Tseten Namgyal, Dukhorwa Yönten Dargye, and Dukhorwa Yeshe Pal. A teacher of The Eighth Dalai Lama, Jampal Gyatso. +
A renowned Gelukpa scholar from the Bora region of Amdo. +
