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[16] Transcending the Confines of Traditional Male-Dominated Society in Old Tibet", Shadow Tibet (blog), December 31, 2020, https://www.jamyangnorbu.com/blog/2020/12/31/transcending-the-confines-of-traditional-male-dominated-society-in-old-tibet. ...

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[17] https://www.dechencholing.org/the-passing-of-lady-konchok/

[24] The Asia Journal of Thomas Merton, quoted in https://www.chronicleproject.com/christian-buddhist-dialogue/

[29] https://www.dechencholing.org/the-passing-of-lady-konchok/

[84] https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/pema-chodron-shambhala/

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[20] Personal communication from Tibetan doctor and astrologer Erik Jampa Andersson (www.shrimala.com): The five components (lnga bsdus) refer to the days of the week, lunar days, lunar mansions, yoga, and karaṇa (gza' tshes skar sbyor byed pa lnga)

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... The first known translations of compositions credited to her were executed by Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (982–1054) sometime during the early eleventh century.[3] ...

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At the age of sixty-one, in fire-horse year of the ninth sexagenary cycle, the year 1546, Gendun Tashi was invited to Chamdo Jampa Ling and enthroned to the seat of abbot

... Gendun Tashi was posthumously given the title of the Second Lelung Jedrung, and the fourteenth-century Kadampa master Grubchen Lekyi Dorje (grub chen las kyi rdo rje, 1326-1401) was numbered as the first. ...

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He then studied under the Fifth Karmapa Dezhin Shekpa (karma pa 05 de bzhin gshegs pa, 1384-1415) from whom he initially received the bodhicitta vows

Zhonnu Pel served as a translator for the Indian Paṇḍit Vanaratna, known in Tibetan as Paṇchen Nakyi Rinchen (ba na rat+na; pan chen nags kyi rin chen, 1384-1468), when he visited and toured Tibet, thus earning the title Lotsāwa, or translator.

... Among his important disciples were the Seventh Karmapa, Chodrak Gyatso (karma pa 07 chos grags rgya mtsho, 1454-1506); the Fourth Zhamar, Chodrak Yeshe (zhwa dmar 04 chos grags ye shes, 1453-1524); Trimkhang Lotsāwa Sonam Gyatso (khrims khang lo tsA ba bsod nams rgya mtsho, 1424-1482); Minyakpa Dorje Sengge (mi nyag pa rdo rje seng+ge, b.1462); the Second Drukchen, Kunga Peljor ('brug chen 02 kun dga' dpal 'byor, 1428-1476); and Dzongchungpa Jampa Dorje Gyeltsen (rdzong chung pa byams pa rdo rje rgyal mtshan, 1424-1498). ...

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[9] For an English translation see https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/gyarong-khandro/wisdom-dakini-prayer

[10] For an English translation see https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-to-gyarong-khandro

[11] For an English translation see https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/letter-to-gyarong-khandro ...

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He studied a great range of topics from the sutras and tantras, as well as general subjects under a number of distinguished teachers including the nineteenth abbot of Śrī Siṃha College (shrI sing+ha bshad drwa), Zhenpen Chokyi Nangwa (gzhan phan chos kyi snang ba, 1871-1927); the sixteenth abbot of Śrī Siṃha, Adro'i Khenchen Sonam Chophel (a gro'i mkhan chen bsod nams chos phel, d.u.); and the twentieth abbot of Śrī Siṃha, Pema Tekchok Loden (pad+ma theg mchog blo ldan, 1879-1955) ...

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[19] https://www.tuvaonline.ru/2003/09/08/posvyaszenie-kalachakry.html

[27] https://www.dalailama.com/news/2023/preliminary-procedures-for-the-chakrasamvara-empowerment

[28] http://baabar.mn/article/dchoijamts-x-bogd-bol-burkhanii-shashnii-ertuntsud-aguu-uil-buteekh-gegeenten-yum; https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/world/asia/mongolia-tibetan-buddhism-bogd.html

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[33] See Sonam Nyenda: https://sonamnyenda.com/2019/06/20/ashi-wangmo-a-buddhist-poet-of-bhutanese-royal-family/ ...

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... Lotsawa House, 2004.  https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-wangpo/manjushri-few-remarks ...

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... Four years later, in 1616, he was made the abbot of Rinchenling (rin chen gling) at the age of forty-three, and then the abbot of Sangpu Monastery at the age of forty-seven, in 1620

... He also performed as the chief lama, or abbot of Kyormolung (skyor mo lung), Sang Ngag Khar (gsang sngags mkhar), Wolkha Dzingchi ('o kha rdzing spyi) monasteries ...

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[2] Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro's writings contain a prayer composed at Khenpo Tsewang Gyurme's behest, for an English translation of which see https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/prayer-for-yakze-tsewang-gyurme

... 174 and the biography of Khandro Tsering Chodron.

[6] For English translations see https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/pema-lingpa-guru-yoga and https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/falling-elixir-of-blessings

[7] For an English translation see https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/jetsun-lochen-guru-yoga

... For an English translation see https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/jamyang-khyentse-chokyi-lodro/gathering-auspiciousness-mahabodhi-prayer ...

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... 106–110.

[10] TibetTV, 8:15-8:30.

[11] TibetTV, 7:45-8:15.

[12] Mkhan po bkra shis rdo rje, et al., ix.

[13] Mkhan po bkra shis rdo rje, et al., 26-28.

[14] Mu po, 125.

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... Shibayev in Naggar and Lobzang Mingyur Dorje at the Institute] https://roerichsmuseum.website.yandexcloud.net/UR/UR-084.pdf

... Documents of the Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute, 204] https://roerichsmuseum.website.yandexcloud.net/UR/UR-204.pdf

... [Correspondence of the New York branch of the Urusvati Institute with libraries and individuals regarding the acquisition of a Tibetan-English dictionary] https://roerichsmuseum.website.yandexcloud.net/UR/UR-219.pdf

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... He then studied the Geluk monastic curriculum from the sutra section under eminent scholars in the monastery, and later enrolled in Gyume College to study tantra, with its rites and rituals, maṇḍala drawings and related topics

Thereafter, Lodro Gyatso was enthroned to the seat of abbot at Deyang Dratsang (bde yangs grwa tshang), Drepung Gomang, Gyume Tantric College, and Ganden Jangtse and taught at these monastic institutions, earning a reputation in his scholarship ...

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[6] See, for example, the colophon to Thugs rje chen po khar+sa pA Na'i sgrub thabs tshigs su bcad pa bzhi pa (https://www.tbrc.org/#library_work_ViewByOutline-O00CR000800CR0132262DB178462DB17847%7CW23703). ...

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[1] TOH: 1436 - BCRD, BDRC; TOH: 2033 - BCRD, BDRC; TOH: 2034 - BCRD, BDRC.

... For a preliminary English translation with Tibetan see The Glorious Treatise on the Release from Bondage.

[6] The Glorious Treatise on the Release from Bondage, verse 50.

[7] The Glorious Treatise on the Release from Bondage, verse 51.

[8] The Glorious Treatise on the Release from Bondage, verse 17.

[10] TOH: 1436 - BCRD, BDRC; TOH: 2033 - BCRD, BDRC; TOH: 2034 - BCRD, BDRC.

[15] https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=L8LS15308, https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=L8LS15281

[18] Buddhist Canon Research Database (BCRD) and Dan Martin's Tibskrit  both name Drakpa Gyeltsen as the Tibetan translator of this text.

[19] https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P43 and https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P3203

[29] BDRC lists the following such transmission lineages: gsang 'dus mi bskyod rdo rje lha sum bcu rtsa gnyis dkyil 'khor dbang bskur ba/chag lugs, rnal 'byor bla med kyi lung brgyud, birwa pa'i blo sbyong gi brgyud pa, sbyong rgyud nas bshad pa'i ngan song sbyong ba kun rig rtsa ba'i dkyil 'khor du dbang bskur thob pa'i brgyud, gshin rje gshed dmar po chos skor las/ lha lnga'i dkyil 'khor ras bris la rten pa dbang bzhi mtha' rten dang bcas pa'i brgyud pa ...

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[69] Ken Holmes, "Better than SatNav" (https://monlam.wordpress.com/tag/16th-karmapa/page/2/)

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[31] See Tomlin (2021): https://dakinitranslations.com/2021/03/07/teenager-8th-karmapas-adamant-refusal-to-meet-chinese-emperor/

[34] See Tomlin (2019): https://dakinitranslations.com/kalacakra-as-the-ultimate-pinnacle-of-all-the-tantras-jetsun-taranatha-and-8th-karmapa-mikyo-dorje/. ...

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Tsade Zhanakpa Namkha Dorje (rtswa sde zhwa nag pa nam mkha rdo rje) was the regent of the throne of Katok Monastery (G17 kaH thog) during a brief period in 1282 as the seat passed from the fourth abbot, Sonam Bumpa (bsod nams 'bum pa, 1222–1282), to the fifth abbot, Yeshe Bumpa (ye shes 'bum pa, 1242–1328)

... He founded Tsade Monastery (rtswa sde dgon) in the region of Gnojo (go 'jo) near Chamdo (chab mdo).[1]

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[13] For an English translation, see: https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/trulshik-rinpoche/llp-mayumla

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