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Zhangtön Sönam Drakpa

ཞང་སྟོན་བསོད་ནམས་གྲགས་པ་

1292 – 1370

Zhangton Gyawo, who was one of Dolpopa’s fourteen major disciples, studied widely in different traditions as a young man. Then he spent almost thirty years with Dolpopa, receiving all the great master’s teachings. For the last fifteen years of his life Zhangton taught the massive Vimalaprabhā commentary on the Kālacakra Tantra every year.

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Other names

• ཞང་སྟོན་རྒྱ་བོ་བསོད་ནམས་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• ཞང་སྟོན་བྱང་སེམས་བསོད་ནམས་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• zhang ston rgya bo bsod nams grags pa · other names (Wylie)
• zhang ston byang sems bsod nams grags pa · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

• Jonang · religious affiliation

Kālacakra - Can refer to either the Kālacakra Tantra and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered. Skt. कालचक्र Tib. དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ། Ch. 時輪

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tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt. तन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད། Ch. 密宗

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Jonang - The Jonang tradition was established by Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, a thirteenth-century Sakya monk famous for his Zhentong teachings. The Jonang teachings and monasteries were suppressed in Tibet in the seventeenth century but survived in Amdo. Tib. ཇོ་ནང་

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