Rong zom chos kyi bzang po

Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo

རོང་ཟོམ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བཟང་པོ་

1042 - 1136

Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo was an eleventh-century Tibetan translator, author, and exegete of Buddhist literature. Among his translations and commentarial works are important scriptures transmitted as part of the first and second period of Buddhist diffusion in Tibet. He is a seminal figure for the Nyingma, traditionally described as the last translator of the early translation period. His work as a translator and exegete is nevertheless also important to the later translation period and the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism. His prodigious literary output––including his early and influential commentary on Guhyagarbhatantra and his vociferous defense of Tibet's Dzogchen tradition––affirm his place as the first of the three luminaries of the Nyingma tradition, alongside Longchenpa and Ju Mipam Gyatso.
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Other names

• རོང་ཟོམ་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• རོང་ཟོམ་པཎྜི་ཏ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• rong zom pa · other names (Wylie)
• rong zom paN+Di ta · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

• Nyingma · religious affiliation
• bai ro tsa na · emanation of

Tertön Gyatsa Information from the Rinchen Terdzö

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The full Tertön Gyatsa text can be found at the following page: Volume 1 (ཀ), 341-765, 1a1-213a4.

Name in Gyatsa: པཎ་ཆེན་རོང་ཟོམ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བཟང་པོ་ (paN chen rong zom chos kyi bzang po)

Page #s for bio of this person: 518 to 519

Folio #s for bio of this person: 89b5 to 90a1

།ལོ་ཆེན་བཻ་རོ་དངོས་བྱོན་གངས་རིའི་ལྗོངས་ཙམ་ན་ཕུལ་དུ་བྱུང་བའི་པཎྜི་ཏ་ཆེན་པོ་རོང་ཟོམ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བཟང་པོས་ཀྱང་ཟབ་གཏེར་འགའ་ཞིག་བཞེས་པར་གྲགས་ཀྱང་བར་སྐབས་ནས་རྒྱུན་བྱུང་མིན་མ་ངེས། ཕྱིས་འདིར་རྗེ་བླ་མ་མདོ་སྔགས་གླིང་པར་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་རིགས་བྱེད་རྩལ་གྱི་གསང་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་གཞུང་ངོ་མཚར་ཅན་ཡང་གཏེར་དུ་བབས་པ་ཁོ་བོས་ཀྱང་སྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོའི་དཔྱིད་དུ་ནོས་ཤིང་། རོང་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ་ནི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་ཡོངས་སུ་གྲགས་པས་འདིར་སྨོས་མ་དགོས་སོ།

lo chen bai ro dngos byon gangs ri'i ljongs tsam na phul du byung ba'i paN+Di ta chen po rong zom chos kyi bzang pos kyang zab gter 'ga' zhig bzhes par grags kyang bar skabs nas rgyun byung min ma nges/_phyis 'dir rje bla ma mdo sngags gling par mkha' 'gro ma rigs byed rtsal gyi gsang sgrub kyi gzhung ngo mtshar can yang gter du babs pa kho bos kyang skal pa bzang po'i dpyid du nos shing /_rong pa chen po'i rnam par thar pa ni rgya cher yongs su grags pas 'dir smos ma dgos so

Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib. རྙིང་མ་

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Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt. महासन्धि Tib. རྫོགས་ཆེན།

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gotra - Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain. Skt. गोत्र Tib. རིགས་ Ch. 鍾姓,種性

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