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His writings included a thirteen-chapter treatise on Dzogchen entitled The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection of Mañjuśrī ('jam dpal rdzogs pa chen po thugs tig), which was inspired by, and based upon, the writings of Longchen Rabjam (klong chen rab 'byams, 1308-1364); an explanation of the seventy points of the Abhisamayālaṃkāra, entitled The Essence of an Ocean of Fine Explanation; a commentary on the Seven Points of Mind Training; writings on the eight great chariots of the practice lineage; some background to the biographies of the gurus of Tāranāta (tA ra nA tha, 1575-1634); a collection of praises, including a tribute to Longchen Rabjam; a text on the ‘collected topics’ (bsdus grwa) of logic and epistemology; a collection of advice; a collection of official letters; offering liturgies to the guardians of the Nyingtik tradition; Kurukullā texts; pure vision teachings related to the Kīlaya practice of Nubchen Sanggye Yeshe; and a grammatical treatise on Tonmi Sambhota’s Thirty Verses. ...
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... In the seventeenth-century, the Jonang master Tāranātha (tA ra nA tha, 1575-1634) and the Fourth Dorje Drak Rigdzin, Pema Trinle (rig ’dzin padma ’phrin las, 1641-1717) expanded upon Buddhaguhya's biography ...
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... He served as the personal physician for Tāranātha Kunga Nyingpo (tA ra nA tha kun dga' snying po, 1575-1634). ...
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... According to Tāranātha (1575–1634), Galo's sons Sherab Sengge and Akara Siddhi both also attained siddhi in Kālacakra and Yamāntaka.[3] ...
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... Tāranātha mentions Lakṣmīṃkarā as the guru of Virupa, who is thought to have lived around the ninth century.[2] Alternatively, according to the fifteenth century Blue Annals by Go Lotsāwa Zhonnu Pel ('go lo tsA ba gzhon nu dpal, 1392–1481), Gelongma Pelmo transmitted the Cycle of the Great Compassionate One, Mahākaruṇika, to Srībhādra (dpal gyi bzang po) whose life dates are unknown ...
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... The lineage starts with Indian Paṇḍita Barwai Tsowo ('bar ba'i gtso bo); Jonang Jetsun Tāranātha (tA ra nA tha, 1575–1635) was the immediate predecessor of the First Bogd Jebtsundampa Khutugtu, Öndör Gegeen Zanabazar Lobzang Tenpey Gyeltsen (blo bzang bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan). ...
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... Given their dates, this would make Trinle Wangmo an older cousin to the Fifth Dalai Lama's mother, Kunga Lhadze.3 Based on the available biographical sources for these two women, they likely spent at least part of their girlhoods together in the same extended royal family household.4 That these women were blood relatives is made more probable by the Fifth Dalai Lama's autobiographical description of his mother being from a Jonangpa family in the Nakartse district who were devoted to Kunga Drolchok (kun dga' grol mchog 1507-1565) and then later his tulku, Tāranātha (tā ra nā tha 1575-1635).5 ...
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... According to Dezhung Rinpoche, he went in the company of the Eleventh Situ.[29] At Takden Puntsokling (brtag brtan phun tshogs gling) he gave Jonang teachings, almost certainly from the Tāranātha line of transmission that Jamgon Kongtrul had preserved; the monastery, established by Tāranātha (tA ra nA tha, 1575-1634) had been converted to the Geluk tradition in the seventeenth century ...
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... In 1970 they published an English translation of Tāranātha’s History of Buddhism in India (rgya gar chos byung) ...
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His father was the Darkhan Chingwang Dondrub Dorje (a phu wang tshe dbang don grub rdo rje), a prince and great-grandnephew of Zanabazar, the First Khalkha Jetsundampa, Lobzang Tenpai Gyeltsen (khal kha rje bstun dam pa blo bzang bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan, 1635-1723), who during his lifetime was believed to be an emanation of the Tibetan Jonang master Tāranātha (tA ra nA tha, 1575-1634) ...
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At the age of sixteen he met Tāranātha Kunga Nyingpo (tA ra nA tha kun dga snying po, 1575-1634), the famed abbot of Jonang Monastery (jo nang dgon) in Tsang ...
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... He also studied with Tāranātha Kunga Nyingpo (tA ra nA tha kun dga' snying po, 1575-1634), Muchen Sanggye Gyeltsen (mus chen sangs rgyas rgyal mtshan, 1542-1618), Tutob Wangchuk Sonam Chopel (mthu stobs dbang phyug bsod nams chos 'phel, d.u.); Khenchen Jampa Zangpo (mkhan chen byams pa bzang po, d.u.); and Drubri Khedrub Gyurme (grub ris mkhas drub 'gyur med, d.u.). ...
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... He received the transmissions for all the major collections, such as the Kangyur and Tengyur, the Nyingma Kama, the Treasury of Revelations (rin chen gter mdzod), and Treasury of Instructions (gdams ngag mdzod), as well as the collected writings of individual masters including Longchen Rabjam, Jigme Lingpa ('jigs med gling pa, 1730–1798), Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo (P3816 rong zom chos kyi bzang po, mid 11th cent.–early 12th cent.), Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorje (smin gling gter chen 'gyur med rdo rje, 1646–1714), Lochen Dharmaśrī (lo chen d+harma shrI, 1654–1718), the Fifth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso (tA la'i bla ma 05 ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho, 1617–1682 ), Tāranātha (tA ra nA tha, 1575–1634), Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo ('jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po, 1820–1892), Jamgon Kongtrul ('jam mgon kong sprul 1813–1899), Dza Patrul Rinpoche (rdza dpal sprul 1808–1887) and Ju Mipam Gyatso ('ju mi pham rgya mtsho, 1846–1912) ...
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The precise dates of Ratnākaraśānti's birth, activity, and death are unknown.[1] The twelfth-century Indian historian Abhayadatta erroneously placed Ratnākaraśānti's birth during the reign of the Pāla Emperor Devapāla (810-850), but most scholars agree Ratnākaraśānti was born in the late tenth century, roughly 970.[2] According to Tāranātha (tA ra nA tha, 1575-1615) he took his post at the great Indian monastic university Vikramaśīla during the regency of *Canaka (AKA ...
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... That said, his works were closely studied by such important thinkers as Tāranātha (tA ra nA tha, 1575-1634), later influencing a seminal non-sectarian master, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas, 1813-1899), who cited verbatim and paraphrased critical passages from such texts as Rain of Ambrosia in his acclaimed Treasury of Knowledge (shes bya kun khyab mdzod) ...
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Tsen's work also inspired the "other-emptiness" (gzhan stong) writing of Dolpopa Sherab Gyeltsen (dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan, 1292-1361) and Tāranātha (1575-1634). ...
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... In about 1588 he invited the young Tāranātha (rje btsun tA ra nA tha, 1575-1634), who had been recognized as the reincarnation of Kunga Drolchok, to Jonang ...
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