The Treasury of Lives

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Chak Drachompa

b.1154 - d.1217
BDRC P4440

Chak Drachompa studied Sanskrit in Bodhgaya in the twelfth century. He interpreted for the Indian paṇḍitas Buddhaśrī and Śākyaśrībhadra when they visited central Tibet and also translated their works into Tibetan. He is credited with four texts in the Tengyur.

 

Chak Lotsāwa Choje Pel, known also by the Sanskrit version of his name, Dharmaśvamin, was the last Tibetan translator to visit and study at Nālandā Monastery in India, primarily under Rāhulaśrībhadra, before its destruction. He attained considerable fame during his lifetime, with roughly thirty translations and revisions included in the Tibetan canon. He is also remembered for a correspondence with Sakya Paṇḍita on various points of doctrine.

Bari Lotsāwa Rinchen Drak was the second throne holder of Sakya Monastery, one of the few throne holders who was not a member of the Khon family. He is credited with translating and transmitting the 108 Sādhanas in Tibet. He was a student in India of Amoghavajra, with whom he translated. Known as a master of ritual, he was selected by the Khon family to be the teacher of Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, the first of the five founding fathers of the Sakya school and his successor as throne holder 

Lochen Drakpa Gyaltsen was an abbot of Bodong E and the founder of the monasteries of Shelkar Chode in Dingri and Dzongkar Chode in Kyirong. The nephew of the translator Jangchub Tsemo, he was the uncle of Bodong Paṇchen Chokle Namgyel. He gave teachings to numerous prominent lamas, including Tsongkhapa.

Lhamo Lhamchung was a late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century delok, a person who has passed to the realm of death and returned back to life. She lived in Yolmo, Nepal.