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རྔོག་བློ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་

Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab(1059 - 1109) 

Born in:

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yar 'brog (lho ka)

Tibetan date of birth:

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Year of the Female Earth Pig, 1^st sexagenary cycle.

The Treasury of LivesBuddhist Digital Resource Center

Ngok Lotsāwa was nephew of Ngok Lekpai Sherab, the founder of Sangpu Neutok, and not only carried on the teaching activities of his uncle but raised the fame and prestige of Sangpu to new heights. He was important not only to his own Kadam lineage, but to the development of Tibetan education in general. Ngok Lotsāwa, working with the Kashmiri paṇḍita Sajjana, produced the sole-surviving translation of the Ratnagotravibhāga, the central text of buddha-nature theory in Tibet. His commentary on the text is said to have initiated the "analytical" exegetical tradition.

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