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Mitrayogin was a highly regarded Indian teacher who flourished in the final days of Buddhism's prominence in India. He was invited to Tibet by his disciple Tropu Lotsāwa and is best known for his tantric collection known as One Hundred Transmissions of Mitra and his Letter to King Candra. +
Khenpo Jigme Puntsok was one of the most influential Nyingma lamas of the late twentieth century. He remained in Tibet after 1959 and, following the end of the Cultural Revolution, established Larung Gar in Serta, Golok, which has grown to become one of the largest monastic institutions in the world. He was considered a reincarnation of Terton Sogyel Lerab Lingpa. +
Khedrubje Gelek Pelzang was one of the primary disciples of Tsongkhapa. A native of Tsang, he was involved in the establishment of the great monastery in Gyantse, Pelkhor Chode, before assuming the throne of Ganden in 1431. He was posthumously given the title of First Paṇchen Lama by virtue of being considered a pre-incarnation of the Fourth Paṇchen, Lobzang Chokyi Gyeltsen. +
Sanggye Yeshe was a prominent lineage holder of the Ganden Nyengyu lineage. He was a disciple of Gyelwa Wensapa, and twice served as abbot of Riwo Gempel Monastery. He was a teacher to the Fourth Paṇchen Lama. +
Ngari Paṇchen Pema Wanggyel was a major Nyingma lama of the early sixteenth century. Born in present day Mustang, Nepal, he traveled widely around Tibet promoting the Jangter tradition with his brother, Lekden Dorje. He is remembered to have strictly observed his monastic vows and was the author of many texts, including Ascertaining the Three Vows, which lays out the Buddhist path according to the Nyingma tradition. +
Tsonawa Sherab Zangpo was an important early Tibetan Vinaya scholar as well as a lineage holder of the Lamrim tradition. Two of his Vinaya texts are considered the most complete and lucid works on the Vinaya written in Tibet and are still studied in all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the first incarnation in the line of Mon Tsona Tulkus. +
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Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyelwa was a prominent Tibetan translator of the early eleventh century who, at the order of Lha Lama Jangchub Wo, brought [[Atiśa]] to Tibet. He is credited with almost one hundred translations in the Kangyur and Tengyur. +
Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang was one of the most influential Nyingma lamas of the twentieth century. A prolific author and the head abbot of Katok Monastery for thirteen years, as well as a teacher at other major Nyingma monasteries in Kham, he was an authority on Dzogchen and the primary conduit of Patrul Rinpoche's Longchen Nyingtik lineage. He founded Nyoshul Monastery in 1922. +
Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo was one of the most famous and influential Sakya teachers of the fifteenth century. A student of Sharchen Yeshe Gyeltsen and Buddhaśrī, he played an important role in the revitalization of the Sakya tradition following the collapse of Yuan patronage, with the establishment of Ngor Monastery in 1429, and the cultivation of support from Mustang and the Rinpung family in Shigatse. He famously engaged in a polemical debate with Khedrubje over the authenticity of the Sakya Hevajra teachings. Among his disciples were Muchen Sempa Chenpo, Gorampa Sonam Sengge, and Shākya Chokden. +
Ngulchu Dharmabhadra was born into a family of poor shepherds and became one of the greatest Geluk scholars of the nineteenth century. He studied at Ngulchu Hermitage and Tashilhunpo, and spent most of his life in retreat, composing nearly two hundred texts that are collected in ten volumes. +
Nyakla Pema Dudul was a treasure revealer and prominent Nyingma master associated with Katok. He studied mainly under Drubchen Choying Rangdrol and specialized in Dzogchen. At his death he is said to have accomplished a rainbow-body. He was the founder of Kelzang Sanggye Choling as his own seat and also Sangngak Dechen Ling Monastery and Tsogyel Nunnery. +
Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje was one of the great Nyingma Dzogchen masters of the twentieth century. Born in Kham, he trained under Khenpo Ngaga and many other of the era's great teachers. He spent several years in solitary retreat and taught at Katok before fleeing the Communist take over of Tibet in the 1950s. Settling in Bhutan, he taught both high officials and young monks. He travelled and taught widely in the West. +
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Patsab Lotsāwa Nyima Drakpa was a major translator of Madhyamaka texts into Tibet. A monk of Sangpu Monastery, he traveled in in Kashmir to work with paṇḍitas such as Jñānagarbha and Kanakavarma. Among his translations are Nāgārjuna's ''Mūlamadhyamakakārikā'' (D 3824), Āryadeva's ''Catuhśataka-śāstra'' (''Four Hundred Verses'') (D 3846), and Candrakīrti's ''Madhyamakāvatāra'' (D 3861). Tibetans consider him the founder of the Prasangika school of Madhyamaka. +
The Fourth Paṇchen Lama, Lobzang Chokyi Gyeltsen, who was the first to hold the title, lived during a time of tremendous political and religious change in Tibet. During his near-century long life the Geluk government of the Fifth Dalai Lama, the Ganden Podrang, took power in Tibet, and Bhutan established itself as an independent state under the rule of the Drukpa Kagyu, both events in which he was intimately connected. Lobzang Chokyi Gyeltsen was a teacher to many powerful Tibetan, Bhutanese and Mongolian political and religious figures, including the Fourth and the Fifth Dalai Lamas, and the First Jetsundampa of Mongolia. The Sixteenth abbot of Tashilhunpo, he was given the title Paṇchen Lama by the Fifth Dalai Lama, who declared him an emanation of Amitabha. By the system advanced by the Ganden Podrang, Chokyi Gyeltsen is considered the First Paṇchen, not counting three previous incarnations, beginning with Kedrubje, one of Tsongkhapa’s close disciples. A prolific author, Chokyi Gyeltsen is credited with over a hundred compositions, including a number of commentaries and ritual texts that remain central in the Gelukpa tradition. +
The Second Pawo Tsuklak Trengwa was a prominent sixteenth-century Kagyu scholar whose best known composition was the ''Chojung Khepai Gaton'' (''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'' (''The Way of the Bodhisattva''), which is still the standard for Karma Kagyu commentaries. He was a disciple of the Eighth Karmapa, the Fourth Zhamar, Dakpo Chokle Namgyel and other Kagyu lamas. He supervised the cremation the Eighth Karmapa, enthroned the Fifth Zhamar and also later organized the enthronement of the Ninth Karmapa. +
Padampa Sanggye was a Buddhist adept well known for his teachings in Tibet, especially of the Prajñāpāramitā corpus and Mahāmudrā system, as well as what would become known as the Zhije tradition. He is also associated with Chod lineages: many sources describe him as a teacher of Machik Labdron, who would herself become known as the genetrix of Chod. +
Pakmodrupa was a disciple of Gampopa and is one of the earliest patriarchs of the Kagyu tradition. His monastery, Densatil, which he founded in 1158, was the training ground for most of the founders of the Kagyu sub-traditions, such as Taklungtangpa and Jikten Gonpo, who went on to establish the Taklung and Drigung Kagyu, respectively. He integrated teachings that he received from Kadam, Sakya and, in vision, Zhije instructors into those he received from Gampopa. A widely learned but humble monk, he gave a clear priority to meditation over textual scholarship and philosophical reflection. His collected works have only recently been published in full. +
Puchungwa Zhonnu Gyeltsen was a disciple of Atiśa and one of three chief disciples of Dromton. He founded Puchung Monastery, one of the first Kadampa monasteries in Penyul. +
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. +
Prajñāvarman was an eighth-century Indian author, three of whose works survive in Tibetan translation. These include the ''Viśeṣastavaṭikā'', the commentary on the hymns of praise to the Buddha that opens the Kangyur. A Prajñāvarman was also a prolific translator of Indic works into Tibetan, including works by Kamalaśīla, Asaṅga, and Śāntarakṣita, among other masters. His Tibetan collaborator was Yeshe De. The author and the translator were probably the same person, but it is not certain. +
