People/Rngog legs pa'i shes rab

Ngok Lekpai Sherab

རྔོག་ལེགས་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་

Ngok Lekpai Sherab was a founding figure of the Kadam tradition and Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism. One of the "three heart sons" of Atiśa, along with Khuton and Dromton, his distinctive contribution was to provide the Kadam tradition with rigorous intellectual discipline combined with tantric practice. He was the founder, with his nephew Ngok Loden Sherab, of Sangpu Neutog Monastery. He was a master of pramāṇa and the guardian of Atiśa’s secret oral teachings, especially the Sixteen Drops. Many Tibetan historians and contemporary western publications have erroneously conflated him with Lochung Lekpai Sherab

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Introduction to the Traditions of Ngok and Tsen

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Ostensen, Morten. "Introduction to the Traditions of Ngok and Tsen." Buddha-Nature: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative, February 28, 2020. https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Articles/Introduction_to_the_Traditions_of_Ngok_and_Tsen.

Ostensen, Morten. "Introduction to the Traditions of Ngok and Tsen." Buddha-Nature: A Tsadra Foundation Initiative, February 28, 2020. https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Articles/Introduction_to_the_Traditions_of_Ngok_and_Tsen.

Other names

• རྔོག་ལོ་ཆུང་ · other names (Tibetan)
• རྔོག་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ལེགས་པའི་ཤེས་རབ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• rngog lo chung · other names (Wylie)
• rngog lo tsA ba legs pa'i shes rab · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

• Uncle of rngog blo ldan shes rab · familial relation
• Kadam · religious affiliation
• gsang phu ne'u thog · primary professional affiliation
• Atīśa · teacher
• rin chen bzang po · teacher
• rngog blo ldan shes rab · student

Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib. བཀའ་གདམས་

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Sangpu Neutok - Sangpu Neutok is an important monastery in central Tibet, just south of Lhasa, that was founded in 1072 by Ngok Lekpai Sherab, a disciple of Atiśa, and developed by his nephew, Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab. Originally a Kadam monastery with two colleges, it evolved into a monastery that includes both Sakya and Geluk traditions. At its peak in the 11th to 14th centuries, it was one of the most highly esteemed centers for monastic education and the study of Buddhist philosophy in all of the Tibetan plateau. Many influential philosophers of the time studied there. Tib. གསང་ཕུ་ནེའུ་ཐོག་

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pramāṇa - In the Buddhist literature on pramāṇa, it refers to cognition that correctly apprehends its object without any deception or mistake. Such correct cognition include direct perception and inferential cognition. Skt. प्रमान Tib. ཚད་མ། Ch. 量

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