Sönam Gyaltsen
བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་
1312 – 1375
Sonam Gyeltsen was a prolific author, although many of his writings were never printed. Most famously, he was the author of the genealogy, Gyal rab sal ba'i me long (rgyal rabs sal ba'i me long), commonly translated as The Clear Mirror: A Royal Genealogy. He wrote on various tantric subjects, particularly the Kālacakratantra, and composed a commentary on Shantideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra. His influential writings on the Lamdre (lam 'bras) tradition were collected in a volume called the Lamdre Ponak (lam 'bras pod nag), one of the first major written works on Lamdre. He also sponsored the first edition of the collected works of the Five Patriarchs of Sakya (sa skya gong ma lnga).
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David Higgins at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium
David Higgins explores the Eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorje’s (1507–1554) prolific writings on tathāgatagarbha, which contain several extended discussions on the topic of how buddha-nature relates to different conceptions of selfhood.
Higgins, David. "Buddha-Nature and Selfhood." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 41:28. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHzI1PxptpI.
Other names
- བཙུན་པ་བསོད་ནམས་ · other names (Tibetan)
- བླ་མ་དམ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ · other names (Tibetan)
- ས་སྐྱ་པ་བླ་མ་དམ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ · other names (Tibetan)
- ཉི་མ་བདེ་བའི་བློ་གྲོས་ · other names (Tibetan)
- ས་སྐྱ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་༡༤་ · other names (Tibetan)
- btsun pa bsod nams · other names (Wylie)
- bla ma dam pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
- sa skya pa bla ma dam pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
- nyi ma bde ba'i blo gros · other names (Wylie)
- sa skya khri 'dzin, 14 · other names (Wylie)
- Lama Dampa Sönam Gyaltsen · other names
- Sakya Trizin, 14th · other names
Affiliations & relations
- sa skya · religious affiliation
- Bu ston rin chen grub · teacher
- Dol po pa · teacher
- Thogs med bzang po · teacher
- Bsam gtan pa shAkya bzang po · student
- red mda' ba gzhon nu blo gros · student
- Tsong kha pa · student
- Klong chen rab 'byams · student
