Sonam Gyeltsen was a prolific author, although many of his writings were never printed. Most famously, he was the author of the genealogy, Gyal rab sal ba'i me long (rgyal rabs sal ba'i me long), commonly translated as The Clear Mirror: A Royal Genealogy. He wrote on various tantric subjects, particularly the Kālacakratantra, and composed a commentary on Shantideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra. His influential writings on the Lamdre (lam 'bras) tradition were collected in a volume called the Lamdre Ponak (lam 'bras pod nag), one of the first major written works on Lamdre. He also sponsored the first edition of the collected works of the Five Patriarchs of Sakya (sa skya gong ma lnga). ... read more at
Other names
བཙུན་པ་བསོད་ནམས་ · other names (Tibetan)
བླ་མ་དམ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ · other names (Tibetan)
ས་སྐྱ་པ་བླ་མ་དམ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ · other names (Tibetan)
ཉི་མ་བདེ་བའི་བློ་གྲོས་ · other names (Tibetan)
ས་སྐྱ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་༡༤་ · other names (Tibetan)
btsun pa bsod nams · other names (Wylie)
bla ma dam pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
sa skya pa bla ma dam pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib. ས་སྐྱ་
