Dol po pa

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དོལ་པོ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen(1292 - 1361) 

Born in:

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gtsang stod mnga' ris dol po gru gsum spu mdo

Tibetan date of birth:

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Year of the Male Water Dragon, 5^th sexagenary cycle.

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Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen was one of the most influential Buddhist masters in Tibetan history. He first became an important scholar of the Sakya tradition, but then moved to Jonang Monastery. There he became the fourth holder of the monastic seat and constructed a monumental stupa. Dölpopa’s ideas, specifically his famous formulation of the zhentong view and his interpretations of Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna doctrine, have elicited controversy for nearly seven hundred years.

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