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| − | '''[[Rongtön Sheja Kunrig]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རོང་སྟོན་ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་རིག་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[rong ston shes bya kun rig]]'') aka '''[[Shakya Gyaltsen]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཤཱཀྱ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[shAkya rgyal mtshan]]'') (1367-1449) — one of the greatest [[scholars]] of the [[Sakya]] school, and indeed in all [[Tibetan history]], who, like his [[principal]] [[teacher]] [[Yaktön Sangye Pal]], is especially renowned for his [[mastery]] of the [[prajnaparamita]] teachings and the text of the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]''. He taught at the great [[Sangphu Neuthog]], and founded his own [[monastery]] of [[Nalendra Monastery|Nalendra]] in 1436. His most famous [[disciples]] were [[Shakya Chokden]] and [[Gorampa Sönam Senge]]. | + | '''[[Rongtön Sheja Kunrig]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རོང་སྟོན་ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་རིག་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[rong ston shes bya kun rig]]'') aka '''[[Shakya Gyaltsen]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཤཱཀྱ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[shAkya rgyal mtshan]]'') (1367-1449) — one of the greatest [[scholars]] of the [[Sakya]] school, and indeed in all [[Tibetan history]], who, like his [[principal]] [[teacher]] [[Yaktön Sangye Pal]], is especially renowned for his [[mastery]] of the [[prajnaparamita]] teachings and the text of the ''[[Abhisamayalankara]]''. He [[taught]] at the great [[Sangphu Neuthog]], and founded his [[own]] [[monastery]] of [[Nalendra Monastery|Nalendra]] in 1436. His most famous [[disciples]] were [[Shakya Chokden]] and [[Gorampa Sönam Senge]]. |
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| + | [[Rongtön Sheja Kunrig]], also known as [[Shakya Gyaltsen]], (1367-1449) was one of the greatest [[scholars]] of the [[Sakya school]], renowned especially for his [[mastery]] of the [[prajnaparamita]] teachings. He founded [[Nalendra Monastery]] in 1436. | ||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
| − | {{Nolinking|*Cabezón, José Ignacio. 'Rong ston Shākya rgyal mtshan on Mādhyamika Thesislessness' in Tibetan Studies, vol. 1, Wien: Verlag der Osterrichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997, pp. 97-105. | + | |
| − | *Jackson, David P. (ed.) ''Rong-ston on the Prajñāpāramitā Philosophy of the Abhisamayālaṃkara'', (Biblia Tibetica 2), Nagata-Bunshodo (Kyoto 1988). pp. i-xxiv | + | |
| − | *David P. Jackson, ''The Early Abbots of 'Phan-po Na-lendra: The Vicissitudes of a Great Tibetan Monastery in the 15th Century'', Wien, 1989}} | + | {{Nolinking|*Cabezón, José Ignacio. '[[Rong ston Shākya rgyal mtshan on Mādhyamika Thesislessness]]' in Tibetan Studies, vol. 1, Wien: Verlag der Osterrichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997, pp. 97-105. |
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| + | *Jackson, David P. (ed.) ''[[Rong-ston]] on the [[Prajñāpāramitā]] Philosophy of the [[Abhisamayālaṃkara]]'', (Biblia Tibetica 2), Nagata-Bunshodo (Kyoto 1988). pp. i-xxiv | ||
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| + | *David P. Jackson, ''The Early Abbots of '[[Phan-po Na-lendra]]: The Vicissitudes of a Great Tibetan Monastery in the 15th Century'', Wien, 1989}} | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
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*[http://www.tibetanlineages.org/biographies/view/205/6735 Biography at Treasury of Lives] | *[http://www.tibetanlineages.org/biographies/view/205/6735 Biography at Treasury of Lives] | ||
*{{LH|topics/bodhicharyavatara/garland-jewel-ornaments|''The Garland of Jewel Ornaments: The Stages of Meditating on the Bodhicharyavatara'' by Rongtön Sheja Kunrig}} | *{{LH|topics/bodhicharyavatara/garland-jewel-ornaments|''The Garland of Jewel Ornaments: The Stages of Meditating on the Bodhicharyavatara'' by Rongtön Sheja Kunrig}} | ||
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*{{LH|topics/prajnaparamita/excellent-path-great-vehicle|''The Excellent Path of the Great Vehicle: How to Meditate on the Three Gateways to Liberation According to the Mahayana'' by Rongtön Sheja Kunrig}} | *{{LH|topics/prajnaparamita/excellent-path-great-vehicle|''The Excellent Path of the Great Vehicle: How to Meditate on the Three Gateways to Liberation According to the Mahayana'' by Rongtön Sheja Kunrig}} | ||
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*[http://sakya-resource.de/Sakya%20Resource%20Centre%20Project-Dateien/e-texts.htm Tibetan biography by Shakya Chokden as an e-text] | *[http://sakya-resource.de/Sakya%20Resource%20Centre%20Project-Dateien/e-texts.htm Tibetan biography by Shakya Chokden as an e-text] | ||
*{{TBRC|P431|TBRC profile}} | *{{TBRC|P431|TBRC profile}} | ||
Revision as of 06:32, 12 October 2015
Rongtön Sheja Kunrig
Rongtön Sheja Kunrig (Tib. རོང་སྟོན་ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་རིག་, Wyl. rong ston shes bya kun rig) aka Shakya Gyaltsen (Tib. ཤཱཀྱ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་, Wyl. shAkya rgyal mtshan) (1367-1449) — one of the greatest scholars of the Sakya school, and indeed in all Tibetan history, who, like his principal teacher Yaktön Sangye Pal, is especially renowned for his mastery of the prajnaparamita teachings and the text of the Abhisamayalankara. He taught at the great Sangphu Neuthog, and founded his own monastery of Nalendra in 1436. His most famous disciples were Shakya Chokden and Gorampa Sönam Senge.
Rongtön Sheja Kunrig, also known as Shakya Gyaltsen, (1367-1449) was one of the greatest scholars of the Sakya school, renowned especially for his mastery of the prajnaparamita teachings. He founded Nalendra Monastery in 1436.
Further Reading
- Cabezón, José Ignacio. 'Rong ston Shākya rgyal mtshan on Mādhyamika Thesislessness' in Tibetan Studies, vol. 1, Wien: Verlag der Osterrichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997, pp. 97-105.
- Jackson, David P. (ed.) Rong-ston on the Prajñāpāramitā Philosophy of the Abhisamayālaṃkara, (Biblia Tibetica 2), Nagata-Bunshodo (Kyoto 1988). pp. i-xxiv
- David P. Jackson, The Early Abbots of 'Phan-po Na-lendra: The Vicissitudes of a Great Tibetan Monastery in the 15th Century, Wien, 1989
External Links
- Biography at Treasury of Lives
- The Garland of Jewel Ornaments: The Stages of Meditating on the Bodhicharyavatara by Rongtön Sheja Kunrig
