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The first of the Katok Getse (kaH thog dge rtse) incarnations, Gyurme Tsewang Chokdrup, Katok Getse Mahapandita (1761-1829) was an important Nyingma scholar from Katok Monastery who famously wrote a catalogue to the Nyingma Gyübum.
He was born in the Iron Snake year of the thirteenth calendrical cycle (1761) and recognized as an incarnation of Tsewang Trinlé, the nephew of Longsal Nyingpo (1625-1692). His teachers included Dodrupchen Kunzang Shenpen, Ngor Khenchen Palden Chökyong, Changkya Rolpé Dorje and Dzogchenpa Ati Tenpé Gyaltsen. Through his connection with the Derge royal family, he arranged for the printing of the Collection of Nyingma Tantras (Nyingma Gyübum) and the writings of Longchenpa and Jikmé Lingpa, and took responsibility for proofreading. Among his students were the Third Dzogchen Rinpoche and the Third Shechen Rabjam, Rigdzin Paljor Gyatso (1770-1809). (Source Accessed Feb 18, 2022)
See also:
- Deity, Mantra and Wisdom: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist Tantra, translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Snow Lion, 2007.
- Ronis, Jann M. “Celibacy, Revelations, and Reincarnated Lamas: Contestation and Synthesis in the Growth of Monasticism at Katok Monastery from the 17th through 19th Centuries”. Available from the University of Virginia, here.
- Tomoko Makidono, "Kah thog Dge rtse Mahāpaṇḍita’s Doxographical Position: The Great Madhyamaka of Other-Emptiness (gzhan stong dbu ma chen po)" in Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies (IIJBS) vol. 12 (2011), pp. 77-119
- Tomoko Makidono, "The Turning of the Wheel of Mantrayāna Teachings in the Rnying ma rgyud ’bum dkar chag lha’i rnga bo che by Kaḥ thog Dge rtse Mahāpaṇḍita ’Gyur med tshe dbang mchog grub (149-186)" in IIJBS vol. 13 (2012), pp. 149-186
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A Gathering of Brilliant Moons
A collection of essays and translations featuring advice and instructions of prominent 18-19th century Tibetan masters.
Gayley, Holly, and Joshua Schapiro, eds. A Gathering of Brilliant Moons: Practice Advice from the Rimé Masters of Tibet. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2017.
Gayley, Holly, and Joshua Schapiro, eds. A Gathering of Brilliant Moons: Practice Advice from the Rimé Masters of Tibet. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2017.;A Gathering of Brilliant Moons;Holly Gayley; Joshua Schapiro;John Canti;Sarah Harding;Wulstan Fletcher;Michael Sheehy;Douglas Duckworth;A Gathering of Brilliant Moons: Practice Advice from the Rimé Masters of Tibet;'jam mgon kong sprul;Dpal sprul rin po che;Mi pham rgya mtsho;Bdud 'joms gling pa;Dodrupchen, 3rd;Mdo mkhyen brtse;Rtogs ldan shAkya shrI;'jigs med gling pa;Shar rdza bkra shis rgyal mtshan;Dge rtse ma hA paN+Di ta tshe dbang mchog grub;Zhang ston bstan pa rgya mtsho;Thub bstan dge legs rgya mtsho
Getse Mahāpaṇḍita Tsewang Chokdrup: Ornament of Sugatagarbha: A Discourse Ascertaining the Definite Great Middle Way
In this work on Great Madhyamaka, the Ornament of Sugatagarbha, Getse Mahāpaṇḍita discusses the different tenet systems and their brief history and aligns them to the three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma. He delves into discussion of Madhyamaka and includes both traditions from Nāgārjuna and Asaṅga was Middle Way. He introduces the term coarse outer Middle Way (རགས་པ་ཕྱིའི་དབུ་མ་) to refer to the Mādhyamika tradition which focusses on emptiness as taught in the Perfection of Wisdom sūtras and the subtle inner Middle Way (ཕྲ་བ་ནང་གི་དབུ་མ་) to refer to the teachings on buddha-nature in the last Turning. Getse Mahāpaṇḍita underscores how buddha nature, the innate nature of the mind, or the self cognising awareness is the ultimate reality. He highlights the Great Madhyamaka of other-emptiness as the ultimate truth and identifies that with the final message of the Kālacakra, Mahāmudrā and Dzogchen teachings as well as the final intent of the great masters.
Nges don dbu ma chen po'i tshul rnam par nges pa'i gtam bde gshegs snying po'i rgyan;Great Madhyamaka;Getse Mahāpaṇḍita Tsewang Chokdrup;དགེ་རྩེ་མ་ཧཱ་པཎྡི་ཏ་ཚེ་དབང་མཆོག་གྲུབ་;Dge rtse ma hA paN+Di ta tshe dbang mchog grub;dge rtse paN chen 'gyur med tshe dbang mchog grub;kaH thog dge rtse paN+Di ta;kaH thog dge rtse ma ha paN+Di ta;'gyur med tshe dbang mchog grub;དགེ་རྩེ་པཎ་ཆེན་འགྱུར་མེད་ཚེ་དབང་མཆོག་གྲུབ་;ཀཿ་ཐོག་དགེ་རྩེ་པཎྜི་ཏ་;ཀཿ་ཐོག་དགེ་རྩེ་མ་ཧ་པཎྜི་ཏ་;འགྱུར་མེད་ཚེ་དབང་མཆོག་གྲུབ་;Getse Panchen Gyurme Tsewang Chogdrup;Katok Getse Pandita;Katok Getse Mahapandita;Gyurme Tsewang Chokdrup;Nges don dbu ma chen po'i tshul rnam par nges pa'i gtam bde gshegs snying po'i rgyan;ངེས་དོན་དབུ་མ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཚུལ་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པའི་གཏམ་བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོའི་རྒྱན།;Ornament of Sugatagarbha: A Discourse Ascertaining the Definite Great Middle Way;ངེས་དོན་དབུ་མ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཚུལ་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པའི་གཏམ་བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོའི་རྒྱན།
Other names
- དགེ་རྩེ་པཎ་ཆེན་འགྱུར་མེད་ཚེ་དབང་མཆོག་གྲུབ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- ཀཿ་ཐོག་དགེ་རྩེ་པཎྜི་ཏ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- ཀཿ་ཐོག་དགེ་རྩེ་མ་ཧ་པཎྜི་ཏ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- འགྱུར་མེད་ཚེ་དབང་མཆོག་གྲུབ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- dge rtse paN chen 'gyur med tshe dbang mchog grub · other names (Wylie)
- kaH thog dge rtse paN+Di ta · other names (Wylie)
- kaH thog dge rtse ma ha paN+Di ta · other names (Wylie)
- 'gyur med tshe dbang mchog grub · other names (Wylie)
- Getse Panchen Gyurme Tsewang Chogdrup · other names
- Katok Getse Pandita · other names
- Katok Getse Mahapandita · other names
- Gyurme Tsewang Chokdrup · other names
Affiliations & relations
- Katok Monastery · workplace affiliation
- Bon · secondary affiliation
- Nyingma · religious affiliation
- spyan snga byams pa 'bum · emanation of
- KaH thog dge rtse, 2nd · incarnation
- 'jigs med gling pa · teacher
- Dodrupchen, 1st · teacher
- Dri med zhing skyong mgon po · teacher
- Lcang skya rol pa'i rdo rje · teacher
- Dzogchen, 3rd · student
- Shechen Rabjam, 3rd · student
- zhe chen dbon sprul 'gyur med mthu stobs rnam rgyal · student
- kun bzang nges don dbang po · student