Thub bstan dge legs rgya mtsho

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Bamda Thubten Gelek
ཐུབ་བསྟན་དགེ་ལེགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
1844 - 1904
Bamda Gelek, whose given name was Tubten Gelek Gyatso, was one of the greatest scholar-practitioners of the Jonang tradition. Based largely at Dzamtang, he was considered the reincarnation of various masters, including the Indian saint Candrakīrti, the siddha Nāropa, and two famous early Jonang lamas, Tāranātha and Kunga Drolchok. Because of his strong interest in the Geluk tradition, some thought him to also be an incarnation of the great Geluk scholar Jamyang Zhepa. His intellectual prowess and strong devotion to the deity Mañjuśrī, his tutelary deity, led others to surmise that he might be an emanation of the deity himself.
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  • འབའ་མདའ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་དགེ་ལེགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • 'ba' mda' thub bstan dge legs rgya mtsho · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

  • Jonang · religious affiliation
  • nil · teacher
  • nil · student