Ngag dbang blo gros grags pa

Ngawang Lodrö Drakpa

ངག་དབང་བློ་གྲོས་གྲགས་པ་

1920 - 1975

Ngawang Lodro Drakpa was a vajra master at Tsangwa Monastery in the Dzamtang region of Amdo. Often referred to as “Mati Rinpoche,” he was one of the leading intellectual figures and most prolific Jonangpa authors of the twentieth century. He is regarded by the living Jonang tradition as a miraculous manifestation of the Tibetan masters Dolpopa Sherab Gyeltsen, Kunga Drolchok, and Tāranātha, among others.
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Other names

• འཛམ་ཐང་མཁན་པོ་བློ་གྲོས་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• མཁན་པོ་བློ་གྲགས་ · other names (Tibetan)
• བློ་གྲོས་གྲགས་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• 'dzam thang mkhan po blo gros grags pa · other names (Wylie)
• mkhan po blo grags · other names (Wylie)
• blo gros grags pa · other names (Wylie)
• Dzamthang Khenpo Lodrö Drakpa · other names
• Khenpo Lodrak · other names

Affiliations & relations

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

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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