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རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་

Gyalse Tokme Zangpo(1295 - 1369) 

Born in:

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phul byung brag skya (sa skya)

Tibetan date of birth:

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Year of the Female Wood Sheep, 5^th sexagenary cycle.

The Treasury of LivesBuddhist Digital Resource Center

Gyalse Tokme Zangpo was a Kadampa master of the fourteenth century based at Ngulchu Monastery where he sat in retreat for twenty years. He had previously served as the abbot of Bodong E for about nine years, from 1326 to 1335. Significant in the transmission of Lojong teachings, his compositions include the famous Thirty-seven Practices of the Bodhisattva, one of the classics of Tibetan buddhist literature. A specialist in tantric Mahākaruṇā, he was a disciple of Butön Rinchen Drup and a teacher of Rendawa Zhönu Lodrö, and is counted as seventy-third in the Lamrim lineage.

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